Computer Building 101

[Tonk]

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the board was about 400$ at the time i got it. I have not had any problem with asus boards until now. My current board has died about 5 times including DOAs i got back from asus. It also takes over a month to get a replacement >8(

I love the SSD and it was worth the investment imo. It does not give a giant improvement with loading times but you very noticeable. But overall the system feels allot faster and more responsive.

[Drewdle]

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the board was about 400$ at the time i got it. I have not had any problem with asus boards until now. My current board has died about 5 times including DOAs i got back from asus. It also takes over a month to get a replacement >8(

I love the SSD and it was worth the investment imo. It does not give a giant improvement with loading times but you very noticeable. But overall the system feels allot faster and more responsive.

That's a real shame about the wait times. My parents bought a system back in 2001 with a Duron 700 on an ABIT motherboard, and I abused the piss out of that thing. I swapped processors a half dozen times, overclocked the crap out of the original one with stock cooling (made it to 966Mhz stable), fried two power supplies, and dropped it at least once (albeit onto carpet and not very high). It held on until I finally bought it back from a friend when it started having post issues, about three months ago. It's probably since been turned into pop cans. But 8 years isn't bad, especially considering the "out-of-the-ordinary" life it had.

Perhaps someone might have had a more recent experience with their products who can chime in. ASUS used to be a great brand; alas.

[mtnlion]

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the board was about 400$ at the time i got it. I have not had any problem with asus boards until now. My current board has died about 5 times including DOAs i got back from asus. It also takes over a month to get a replacement >8(

I love the SSD and it was worth the investment imo. It does not give a giant improvement with loading times but you very noticeable. But overall the system feels allot faster and more responsive.

I have had similar problems with Asus boards, and now won't touch them with a 10 foot pole. I had a brand new M2N-E for a customer's system come DOA, then the replacement had a broken HSF mounting bracket that they almost refused to replace, then the board would refuse to post with any CPU newer than an X2 4200. Garbage in my opinion. All these hoops for a "Premium" brand? Screw that!

I was looking into the SSDs for my next system I'm building this summer, and it's good to hear that they are great. +1 To consider them.

That's a real shame about the wait times. My parents bought a system back in 2001 with a Duron 700 on an ABIT motherboard, and I abused the piss out of that thing. I swapped processors a half dozen times, overclocked the crap out of the original one with stock cooling (made it to 966Mhz stable), fried two power supplies, and dropped it at least once (albeit onto carpet and not very high). It held on until I finally bought it back from a friend when it started having post issues, about three months ago. It's probably since been turned into pop cans. But 8 years isn't bad, especially considering the "out-of-the-ordinary" life it had.

An Abit KT7? Those old Abit boards were fantastic. I had an unlocked XP2000 (Palomino), which I had to unlock using Super glue, and a Rear Defroster Fix kit (liquid silver paste) that I tested in a KT7.

I also have an old Athlon 900 / MSI KT133 that was built in 99 and died just last year. I'm now using the chip in a car computer I've built, transplanted into a new MSI board w/ DDR400, ProSavage video and HD sound. Works great, even for only 900 mhz.



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[Drewdle]

Thanks

the board was about 400$ at the time i got it. I have not had any problem with asus boards until now. My current board has died about 5 times including DOAs i got back from asus. It also takes over a month to get a replacement >8(

I love the SSD and it was worth the investment imo. It does not give a giant improvement with loading times but you very noticeable. But overall the system feels allot faster and more responsive.

I have had similar problems with Asus boards, and now won't touch them with a 10 foot pole. I had a brand new M2N-E for a customer's system come DOA, then the replacement had a broken HSF mounting bracket that they almost refused to replace, then the board would refuse to post with any CPU newer than an X2 4200. Garbage in my opinion. All these hoops for a "Premium" brand? Screw that!

I was looking into the SSDs for my next system I'm building this summer, and it's good to hear that they are great. +1 To consider them.

That's a real shame about the wait times. My parents bought a system back in 2001 with a Duron 700 on an ABIT motherboard, and I abused the piss out of that thing. I swapped processors a half dozen times, overclocked the crap out of the original one with stock cooling (made it to 966Mhz stable), fried two power supplies, and dropped it at least once (albeit onto carpet and not very high). It held on until I finally bought it back from a friend when it started having post issues, about three months ago. It's probably since been turned into pop cans. But 8 years isn't bad, especially considering the "out-of-the-ordinary" life it had.

An Abit KT7? Those old Abit boards were fantastic. I had an unlocked XP2000 (Palomino), which I had to unlock using Super glue, and a Rear Defroster Fix kit (liquid silver paste) that I tested in a KT7.

I also have an old Athlon 900 / MSI KT133 that was built in 99 and died just last year. I'm now using the chip in a car computer I've built, transplanted into a new MSI board w/ DDR400, ProSavage video and HD sound. Works great, even for only 900 mhz.



mtn

Yep, the KT7. Still have the manual around here somewhere. So much fun to overclock back in the day when most mobos still had fiddly jumpers. I'm not entirely sure what went wrong with it, other than when you turned on the power, sometimes it would idle up and simply not post, just sit there with a dead blank screen. No activity, no beeps, but obviously it was getting power of some kind (mouse lit up, etc). Checked all the wiring and PSU in another case, and they were fine. Was a mystery I didn't have the time to solve, which is why it ended up scrapped.

[mtnlion]

The board I used for testing had a similar problem, but the it turned out to be bad capacitors for the MOSFET cpu power supply on the board. A few had leaked a little from the top, not enough to notice serious staining, but enough to cause bad voltage drops on the Vcore.



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