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- May 18, 2003
well, all this hype about the Asus P4P800 being such a good O/Cer made me decide to order one and it came yesterday. oh boy, what a big surprise I got...
it came yesterday at 9:30am which is when I began to put everything together.
good God, what a freakin' nightmare that was.
first off, that Ai BIOS bull**** is exactly just that, utter bull****. that had to be the screwiest BIOS I've ever laid my eyes on.
for God's sakes, why the hell couldnt they have made a simple, very easy to understand BIOS like whats on the IC7 board. hell no, they couldnt. instead they put a bunch of tooty-fruity things thats doesnt translate into anything but a **** BIOS along with maybe a **** board. who knows...
all I know is that I f*cked around with that board for almost seven hours straight trying to get a decent O/C from my 2.4C and in the very end, all I could get was 2.7Ghz while being able to run Prime 95 stable. anything over 2.7Ghz and the machine would just fall on its face. it didnt matter how many volts I stuck to the chip, didnt matter what mem timings I did, didnt matter, the machine would just fall flat.
so I then tried to do their tooty-fruity "auto O/Cing" feature to where you can O/C the chip by steps like 5%, 10%, all the way up to 30% which in my case was almost 3.1Ghz.
well, the machine did boot up at 3.1Ghz and I could run Prime 95 for a little while longer, a whopping 20 minutes this time.
that being that, I decided to throw in the towel and took the machine down and put everything back together with my IC7. and guess what? 2 hours later (after reformatting and such), I'm running at 3.6Ghz again in full force.
never EVER again will I mess with that Asus crap.
do I sound like an Abit fanboy? you're damn right I am. at least the IC7 works right the FIRST time and has a BIOS thats VERY easy to understand and tune.
it came yesterday at 9:30am which is when I began to put everything together.
good God, what a freakin' nightmare that was.
first off, that Ai BIOS bull**** is exactly just that, utter bull****. that had to be the screwiest BIOS I've ever laid my eyes on.
for God's sakes, why the hell couldnt they have made a simple, very easy to understand BIOS like whats on the IC7 board. hell no, they couldnt. instead they put a bunch of tooty-fruity things thats doesnt translate into anything but a **** BIOS along with maybe a **** board. who knows...
all I know is that I f*cked around with that board for almost seven hours straight trying to get a decent O/C from my 2.4C and in the very end, all I could get was 2.7Ghz while being able to run Prime 95 stable. anything over 2.7Ghz and the machine would just fall on its face. it didnt matter how many volts I stuck to the chip, didnt matter what mem timings I did, didnt matter, the machine would just fall flat.
so I then tried to do their tooty-fruity "auto O/Cing" feature to where you can O/C the chip by steps like 5%, 10%, all the way up to 30% which in my case was almost 3.1Ghz.
well, the machine did boot up at 3.1Ghz and I could run Prime 95 for a little while longer, a whopping 20 minutes this time.
that being that, I decided to throw in the towel and took the machine down and put everything back together with my IC7. and guess what? 2 hours later (after reformatting and such), I'm running at 3.6Ghz again in full force.
never EVER again will I mess with that Asus crap.
do I sound like an Abit fanboy? you're damn right I am. at least the IC7 works right the FIRST time and has a BIOS thats VERY easy to understand and tune.