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Post by Richard OConnell on Jul 11, 2011 1:47:30 GMT -5
Well, I have had this board for around 4 years.. its been through a lot of abuse including some serious overclocking and harware experimentation. Upon inspecting it tonight, I found a blown capacitor between the AUX power and the North Bridge. Its a pretty major capacitor but the funny thing is, this thng is still running like a champ. This board is a Foxconn, though I really like ASUS, it was one of the first to introduce Pheonix BIOS which allowed the BIOS to self-recover, which to most boards, meant getting a new one if it went sour. Anyways, kudos to Foxconn for building a solid stable board and, of course, a pic of the carnage   |
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Post by ernie wrenn on Jul 11, 2011 7:50:45 GMT -5
Richard
Stay away from that fan.... You have lost enough blood checking rotation..
ernie
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Post by turbochris on Jul 11, 2011 10:04:09 GMT -5
Foxconn makes good stuff. They make most of the connectors used on the motherboards. I know how hard you beat on that board and despite your best efforts it's still plugging away. They make most of the connectors used on the motherboards. About loosing the bios- yes the self recovery is good. I lost one once during a flash, luckily the bios chip was in a socket so I found a similar motherboard and booted it to a dos prompt. Then I pulled the bios chip out while the board was still running and stuck the dead chip in. I forced the bios flash and it worked. Some old PCI network cards have a socket for an eeprom, you can stick a bios chip in one of those and use a universal flash program to find it and program it, just be careful, the universal programs will find the bios for everything running like the video or motherboard bios so make sure you select the right chip before flashing.
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Post by wolfdragon on Jul 11, 2011 15:52:44 GMT -5
Big cap like that and where it is, most likely a power regulation cap, mainly a low freq noise filter
You will notice a problem if the mains power gets noisy and the power supply doesn't do a great job at filtering it out. If you really wanted to, that is an easy one to replace. I have to order a bunch of stuff from digikey really soon, if you can get the capacitance and the voltage rating I'll put a nice low ESR cap on that list.
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Post by Richard OConnell on Jul 12, 2011 3:15:56 GMT -5
I'll be getting a new board soon anyways, I want to upgrade to 6 core. I might replace it in the meantime... I'm sure the cap is cheap as dirt |
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Post by turbochris on Jul 12, 2011 11:27:32 GMT -5
don't even f with amd. get an i5 2500K or an i7 2600K socket 1155 The Asus P8P67 series boards are nice, i have the pro version and there's a new chipset out that lets you hook up a small solid state drive and it will cache a larger drive so you can have cheap capacity with near solid state drive speeds. The i5 2500K will romp any amd chip with a few rare exceptions like video processing but for gaming you'll take a big hit if you go amd. Their new bulldozer chips may change this but I doubt it.
Now if you got the cash and really want a 6 core, they still sell the intel socket 1366 hex core processors, they can run 12 processes!
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Post by Richard OConnell on Jul 12, 2011 22:22:16 GMT -5
well, living on $600/month makes getting an intel a big problem. And for gaming, my old AMD 64 X2 3.2GHz played through crysis 2 on max settings without letting the framerate drop below 30. Intel definately makes a better processor, but your paying for the huge cache.. which helps with gaming and batch rendering, but with the AMD 6 core @ 3.4 GHz being $180 and the intel equivalent being @ ~ $1200, i'm not sure. Look at the bright side: at least I'm not "upgrading" to a MAC.
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Post by turbochris on Jul 13, 2011 13:42:25 GMT -5
I went from an MSI 890FXA-GD70 and a 1090T 6 core to an Asus P8P67PRO with an i5 2500k. same graphics card and my frame rate went up about 30%. The i5 with a budget board will still kick the AMD's ass in gaming and you're at about the same price range.
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Post by Richard OConnell on Jul 31, 2011 23:25:17 GMT -5
I think this board finally died. The PC completely locks up after ~5mins of use. That usually either points to the board or the PSU, and with the recent cap blowing on the board, the choice is pretty obvious. I'm thinking a nice ASUS board with the 6 core AMD @ 3.3 GHz. Im gonna stack the board with 4gig sticks of DDR3 for 24gigs of total RAM.
Might expand the water cooling to include the GPU, but havent really puut much thought into it yet.
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Post by Richard OConnell on Sept 10, 2011 0:26:22 GMT -5
well, hate to bring back a dead topic, but since the board has been replaced by the ASUS Formula Crosshair IV, I thought I would hold an amusing memorial service in memory of its amazing performance despite my harsh treatment.   ^Overclocking, temps still holding well.  ^Burning up a new 8800 GTX. Fixed it by placing in the oven at ~380 fahrenheit for 10 mins. The low-temp solder recompletes all the little broken connections and it works like a charm again |
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Post by turbochris on Sept 10, 2011 8:44:51 GMT -5
My intel I5 2500K will stomp the shit out of your 6 core |
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Post by Richard OConnell on Sept 10, 2011 10:47:10 GMT -5
Interesting. Proceed.
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Post by turbochris on Sept 12, 2011 7:17:15 GMT -5
run some benchmarks, I'm up for it. I have an OCZ revodrive for my boot drive, a 5870 ATI graphics card, an I5 2500K and 4 gigs of ram on an asus P8P67PRO motherboard. W7 64 bit. Run some good benchmarks, like games and things we do. There are places where the 6 core AMD will rule but I don't do those things. Things like image processing and whatnot will use all 6 cores.
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