I feel I must take this opportunity to bash Maximum PC, as nearly everything they recommend ends up being viewed as lackluster in performance. In fact, Maximum PC is actually a very useful magazine when building a computer, since their recommendations can give you a very clear picture of what...
As a separate issue, I believe I'm still running 1003. I don't really want to risk disk corruption. So anyone think I should update my bios? Consider also that I am not an OC'er.
I am not an overclocker, so I am ok with this. I have resigned myself to the idea that they aren't likely going to be able to change this, and since that doesn't really effect me, it only slightly bothers me.
What bothers me more is that even though this motherboard has been stable, and even...
Steam... you already stressed that a few weeks ago, and told me it was on the winbond controller.
In that very paragraph you just quoted me on, I said that I tested it with a digital thermometer.
All of those readings are from the same digital thermometer that we used to measure our water...
asus probe will tell you the fan speed... and the basic temp... but the problem with that temp reading is that it isn't from the chipset heatsink... it is from the winbond controller which is away from the heat sink.
The asus probe is on the asus cd you got with the motherboard. After you go...
Like I've said, without a fan on the heatsink directly, just with fans in the case pointed in the general direction of an asus heatsink without the fan... I am getting temps on the heatsink with a digital thermometerof 42 to 44 C.
That is about 108 F to 114 F... so yes, it should feel hot...
"thx do i have to remove the fan from in back of the motherboard? I heard some people saying you have to take out the motherboard to do something to the chipset heatsink or fan.. not sure which it is.."
No you don't. To remove the fan, take out the 4 small screws which hold the thin metal...
What was your actual temp on the heatsink, killa?
I was shocked to see that my chipset was about 7 to 10 higher than asus probe, but that my cpu was about 5 below!
I have removed my fan and have just left the heatsink... very easy to remove. I actually have 2 90mm fans inside the case aimed in the direction of the heatsink.
The heatsink temp I've measured at about 42, and sometimes going up to 44. Though the more direct your airflow to it the better...
"the Hz thing is your power system in your conuntry its really simple, if you live in north america(or about 99.95%) you have 60hz if you live any were else you have 50hz with few notable execptions in the middle east and some islands. Its the power at the plug and for the most part of the...
It was a direct contact thermometer. I suppose an infrared would be more accurate?
I did not have one side sealed off, but I'll try that some time today. I can tell you though that I am confident that even closing off a side will not cause the reading to go up by 13C at idle, but I will...
Something about your post inspired me to do a little more research. My dad is an engineer so had a digital thermometer. It appears that the mobo reading is off as you say.
I measured the heatsinks at different points, including their base. I took the highest temp I could find. For testing at...
I personally don't see the point of buying a passive heatsink. Once you take the fan off of the asus heatsink, then you already have a passive heatsink, and it doesn't take up any extra room from your graphics cards and it looks good. On top of that you don't have to remove the motherboard...
I removed the top metal plate and the fan today since it was starting to wheeze and whine like crazy last night.
I was absolutely shocked by how stupid the whole design was. At 8000 rpm this fan had to be generating more heat than it could possibly alieve from the heatsink!!! The fan rests...
I have the 120gb seagate sata also and it's working great. I didn't have the problems but I wasn't trying to bring anything over from a pata drive. Did you try loading everything directly to the sata without the pata plugged in at all?
Only 5 or 6 people complained about it on this board. Of course I didn't have that problem, since I flashed from a floppy... but why would you risk your system to a beta bios anyways, it's pretty stupid considering it could cause problems which might lead to the corruption of your hard disks...
If you are on windows, use the asus update utility that it talks about in the manual, that should give you the information you need to know. It is not recommended to use this utility to install the beta bioses because the program can only upgrade upward, and since the betas are always like this...
I would take a look at this and make your decision based on that
http://www.asus.com/products2.aspx?l1=3&l2=15
It looks like it doesn't have the silicon raid interface on the board... you'd have to use the nvidia raid controllers. It doesn't have dual lan, only single. I don't think it...
:) Hey, someone said the thread was going to be boring... needed to add a little spice to this meatball.
EvilHomer, what was the mistake? I tried to find it in your previous threads but didn't see anything.
I also want to say that it isn't that I don't believe there actually are defective...
I'm loving it dual booted with winxp and fedora core 3. I was nearly dying after I had ordered this board in early January when I found this forum while it was shipping and read all of these experiences.
I am convinced, however, that many people who brought problems here were not exactly...
If you decide you want to share files between Fedora and Windows, it is probably a good idea to make a 5 to 10 GB fat32 partition. Linux can handle fat32 well, but NTFS requires a special package which you can download but I haven't used yet.
By doing this you can protect your windows and...
Important update: Forgot to add that you must select the development tools package to be installed for sure, because the nvidia driver needs gcc to compile itself to the kernel. It is now included in the post above. I've also added a few more bits of info and some spelling corrections.
*I decided to give this its own thread from the official asus thread because I'm sure its a topic many are interested in.*
I am dual-booted with windows xp and Red Hat Fedora Core 3 and I'm loving it. There is a ton of crap you have to piddle through to configure linux on the system, but in...
I am dual-booted with windows xp and Red Hat Fedora and I'm loving it. There is a ton of crap you have to piddle through to configure linux on the system, but in the end it was quite worth it to experiment with an open source os, and the piddling only took a day or so.
If you choose fedora...
It's about 70 F in the house, about a foot of snow outside of the house.
The fans I'm using are the 5 fans that came with the case.
http://www.thermaltake.com/xaserCase/WinGo/v8000a.htm
There is a vent on the side where one of the side fans was to draw in air, but it was half...
So I've experimented a little and have an interesting finding. I took the fans off the rack on the side of the case, and set it standing up inside the case, pointing directly at the motherboards chipset. My feeling is that the fan on the asus a8n is very underpowered. I am going to put a 120mm...
Niceguy, what temps are your cpu and board running at, according to asus probe?
I've been trying to figure out the power fan myself. Is that meant to power a fan, like the cpu fan does, or is it a psu fan monitor?
I have an aluminum thermaltake Xaser V 8000a wingo. The case has 3 90mm fans and 2 80mm fans. My problem is that I believe with 5 fans I should be getting better temps than
34c idle athlon 64 3000+ 939
34c asus a8n-sli
If I open the side of my case while its running, the cpu goes down to...
I was recently in a discussion with a person who had a lot of the same problem... check out tazzer in the search. He actually found out that somehow his videocards were bad. I am betting that might be what your problem is too.
Thanks for the advice. It is still a month or so off, so I've got plenty of time to research options and I will consider that board. I'm now a PCI-E head, and I'm not looking back. I will try to do more research on soltek and consider it.
This really sucks because I was seriously considering this board for a comp I'm building for my brother. Oh hell oh well, hopefully asus whips up something else.
Hmm... This threadstarter really made me look at things in a whole new way. I mean, SLI is a scam... and all upgrading of any sort is a scam.
I think I'll stick with my system and fight the con-artist computer companies trying to keep me on a perpetual upgrade cycle.
My specs:
150 Mhz...
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