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After 6 years I finally upgraded
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Good luck with that OCZ ram, I got 3 consecutive defective sets.
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Just returned the previous board, picked up the ASUS P8P67 Pro board. It was actually only $5 more than the other one, they never told me that. Got my system booted up on the first try, unfortunately this board has no ATA connectors so I am without my two optical drives and backup hard drives (2). Trying to get windows 7 on a thumb drive on my moms PC so I can boot from that and install an OS.
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Board is a dud most likely, installed basic drivers ran really nice for an hour or so then I go to restart and I can't get to post, 3 lights just flash on the mobo. Tried different ram, psu and different hard drives and no go. From the customer reviews I read on this board a lot of people are having similar issues with this board, gonna see if I can't get a intel board or something this is a ton of bs. 
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Board is a dud most likely, installed basic drivers ran really nice for an hour or so then I go to restart and I can't get to post, 3 lights just flash on the mobo. Tried different ram, psu and different hard drives and no go. From the customer reviews I read on this board a lot of people are having similar issues with this board, gonna see if I can't get a intel board or something this is a ton of bs.
I seriously doubt all the P67 boards are duds. Probably just running the wrong voltages.
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Not saying all P67 boards are duds just this specific model from ASUS, this will be my 4th run to micro center, good thing I bought locally shipping this back and forth would have sucked, for my first Intel system I am not too happy, maybe I should have stayed with AMD? lol hope this new board will work for me.
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I've had one AMD system and four Intel systems as a main rig and I prefer intel. Things happen with new chipsets sometimes. It's not that Sandybridge is bad. It's very very good performance for the money. Excellent, really.
AMD definitely has the edge with their pricing. You can get much more bang for your buck in the sub $200 to 250 zone with AMD (Canadian. Surely US prices are lower). In terms of being a better performer without considering price though, Intel is currently way out in front.
AMD definitely has the edge with their pricing. You can get much more bang for your buck in the sub $200 to 250 zone with AMD (Canadian. Surely US prices are lower). In terms of being a better performer without considering price though, Intel is currently way out in front.
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