By-Tor

Just a few things I have found with this new board.

Pros: Great running MB. Its loaded with features. The PC Probe II on this MB is on the money as far as temps. I replaced my Asus M2R32-MVP with this MB and PC Probe II showed the temps lower (by 3-5c) than they really were. Love the Memory heatsink setup, and the SATA outlets are mounted at a right angle and very easy to route your cables.

Cons: If you get the wifi version but dont plan to use it I suggest shutting it off. In AMD OverDrive the 2nd core of my 6000+ was running at 80-95% all the time. I didnt know what was making it run so much till I shut the Wifi off. The other issue has to do with the slot setup... If you are going to run in crossfire and water cool the cards you wont be able to use any of the other slots with heatsink & fan coolers. I wanted to install my Asus P1 PhysX card in the lower of the 2 PCI slots, but with the PCI-E right below it and the Swiftech MCW60 back plate there is know way to install the card. If you are going to use ATI tools make sure you use the .27 beta 3 version. I found that the older ones wont work with PCI-E 2.0.

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Canon 40d Gripped ~ 20d ~ 10-22mm UWA ~ 24-105mm L ~ 70-200mm f/2.8 ISL ~ 50mm 1.4 ~ 430ex II Speedlite
Wife's 300d & 28-135mm
3D Mark 06: 23397
Super PI: 9.297 sec.

http://www.overclock.net/case-mod-wo...rk-spider.html

By-Tor

Anyone else using this board here?

Please post your like's and dislike's....

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Canon 40d Gripped ~ 20d ~ 10-22mm UWA ~ 24-105mm L ~ 70-200mm f/2.8 ISL ~ 50mm 1.4 ~ 430ex II Speedlite
Wife's 300d & 28-135mm
3D Mark 06: 23397
Super PI: 9.297 sec.

http://www.overclock.net/case-mod-wo...rk-spider.html

my-demise

I am not running it just yet but have been looking at purchasing one for some time now. So you'd recommend this mobo?

If I did get it I'd be running one of the brissy cores until AMD quads are at a reasonable price for the performance you get outa them atm or until they are better!

Hmmm, you wrote about the WiFi on this board making one of your cores run at a constant 80% - 90% is this a problem seen with other users of this board? And were you actually using the WiFi? Or was it just sitting there doing nothing other than eating up your cores performance?

One of the main reasons I was looking at this board as my next upgrade was because of the integrated WiFi, I would be sad if it turns out to be a huge resource hog. hehe

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The Duke

Some devices that depend on the 600 series South Bridge chip used on the AM2+ MBs seem to be be a bit CPU resource demanding. The newer 700 SB is alleged to address that but who know for sure when the 700 SB will be available. I've read soon or in a few months, so who knows!
BTW, this is not spicific to Asus!

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SgtHawker

I had broken memory slots on the first board, got an RMA, good so far with the replacement.

I had trouble with the PCprobe II, it gave very high mobo temps, low cpu temps. Asus support, after a hefty wait, said this is normal. Using many other hardware monitor programs I got different temps entirely:

Speedfan 4.33
41°c CPU
41°c mobo
60°c Temp3
55°c nVidia core
43°c nVidia ambient

Everest
41°c mobo
59°c CPU
41°c Aux
55°c GPU
43°c GPU ambient

CPUID monitor
41°c temp1
41°c temp2
60°c temp3
34°c Core 0 thru 3
55°c GPU


Asus PCprobe
41°c mobo
41°c CPU

Considering this info what do you all think of these differences in temps? How do I know what is the third temp sensor and where are the sensors located?

Pros: the SATA connections right angle alignment, the multiple fan connections, the noise shield over the rear panel connectors, two x16 PCIe crossfire slots, SATA HDD in IDE mode did not need F6 drivers for XP, the momory heat spreader, and the multitude of BIOS settings.

Cons: Asus support, it sucks in general and the forums aren't any better, the location of the floppy connector (my round floppy cable hits the VF900 fan on one of my crossfire 3870's, had to sticker mount clamp to case), the built in Wifi (don't need it, but the price was the same as the no Wifi version, just wanted the heat spreader)

Darkvette

I have had so many issues with my M2R32-MVP over the past year that I've had it. I've had BIOS, RAM, CPU, GC, and HDD issues with that board. I finally got so sick of dealing with it tonight that I ordered an M3A32-MVP Delux from Zipzoomfly.com ($30 cheaper than Newegg) Newegg seems to have been going down hill lately, overcharging for stuff.

Anyway, I hope this is as good a board as people are saying. It's the Wi-fi version, but I'm gonna shut it off, have no use for it with my router right here. I'll post specs when I get it and hook it up.

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3DMark06 = 14714
Performance Test 6.1 (x64) = 1386.4

ATI Red Tide!!

"When in doubt, overclock!! If that doesn't work, overclock some more!! If all else fails throw it out the window and be done with it!!" - Anon.

By-Tor

I picked mine up through Motherboard pro and at that time it was $220. It runs like a champ.
I am not using the wifi and really didn't want to get the one that had it, but the one without the wifi was $30 more than the one with (hhmm) so I just got this one and disabled it.
The heat pipes seem to do a very good job at cooling everything.

Overall I really like this board, it has a bunch of features and is Rock Solid..

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Canon 40d Gripped ~ 20d ~ 10-22mm UWA ~ 24-105mm L ~ 70-200mm f/2.8 ISL ~ 50mm 1.4 ~ 430ex II Speedlite
Wife's 300d & 28-135mm
3D Mark 06: 23397
Super PI: 9.297 sec.

http://www.overclock.net/case-mod-wo...rk-spider.html

OrphanShadow

Does the BIOS for this board have an option to disable the Erratum patch for the phenoms, may I ask? Looking into getting either this or the equivalent Gigabyte board, but wanting to stick with asus as its what im used too.

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Darkvette

If anyone does research on CPU errors with both AMD and Intel, you'll find that these sort of errors occur all the time, it's just that:
A. It's usually either revealed too late for anyone to care or,
B. That it's not revealed at all.

Here's a link to a wikipedia article about the TLB area of the CPU where the Erratta is. Most likely, it's not something you're going to notice or come across unless you're running 4+ virtualization programs at once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transla...okaside_Buffer

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3DMark06 = 14714
Performance Test 6.1 (x64) = 1386.4

ATI Red Tide!!

"When in doubt, overclock!! If that doesn't work, overclock some more!! If all else fails throw it out the window and be done with it!!" - Anon.

OrphanShadow

Its not that im really worried about the errata, its just the patch hits the performance of the CPU badly, so my decision will be based on which boards will letme turn this patch off.

Which is really the reason im asking

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