ASUS P4B533-E Good?

[Krizalid]

Just wondering on people's opinion about this board.

Has anyone had any issues (problems) with this board?, is it a good board?

Also (excuse my ignorance), can the AGP Pro slot on this board pretty much use any GF4 and above card that is out on today's market at 4x speed?

 

[paulzebo]

I have this board as does a business friend. We both have the same problem.

first- if you're going to run one of the new intel C1 stepped processors, you have to get the latest bios. Mine didn't even see the entire keyboard during boot. Luckily, I was able to get it into the Bios update mode and reflash.


Second - It's only a guess on my part, but I would say this ASUS board is power hungry and a supply minimum of 400watts is needed. Too many features needing power for its own good. OR ASUS has some voltage regulator problems since the Vcore voltage skips around in .750v - .250v incriments during benchtesting and even up to .5v when at idle. Random reboots occure unless you pump the voltages up. I tried three diffent power supplies before finding one which moves around the least. All three were P4 supplies. In other systems, none of the voltage issues came up and I read a standard 12.07v on my main line vs. 11.87v with this ASUS board.

All in all, I would pick a different board.

 

[hc1001]

which PSU did u find to be the best???how much was the difference from idle to heavy load on the Vcore?

 

[paulzebo]

As things usually have it, the least high tech, single fan, stone stock 300 watt AOPEN which came with a case I bought outperformed a 400w and 380 watt PS. From idle to full CPU operation, I still see the core voltage go from 1.61 to 1.54. BUT, thats alot bette than when it went from 1.66 doun to 1.47

 

[hc1001]

thx... on my PSU idle voltage is 1.69 and when i go to heavy load it goes down to 1.616. im planning on buying a antec truepower 430 watt PSU.....hope i get good results. ur sig is wrong, fix 3 mhz to GHz.

 

[BadThad]

I just built a system on this board and it ran perfectly. I saw no problems whatsoever. I did happen to use a 400W PS so I'm never experienced what paulzebo did.

 

[paulzebo]

Oh, by the way, on page 2-29 of the ASUS P4B533-E user guide, it states that a 300 watt PSU is the MINIMUM PSU on a fully configered system.

 

[Austin5]

I have the P4B533 board and it is just awesome. Although I am having some power issues on the 3.3v. It is dropping down to 3.0 during heavy graphics use but it doesn't effect the performance of the frame rates as far as I can tell. I have a 2.4 OC'd to 2.52 and got a 13,000+ 3DMark2001SE score with it which was pretty good IMO. I haven't had any other problems and they are most likely due to the fact I am using a cheap power supply.

 

[ErikaeanLogic]

I just got one the other day, here are what I like about it:

1) totally stable - After a year and a half of flaky AMD chipsets and motherboards (which I loved), I am happy to report that when I've pushed the fsb too far for a given Vcore all I have to do is back off 1 or 2 MHz on the fsb and the system will be rock-solid (ie: can run 6+ hours of 3DMark loops). On all of the AMD motherboards I used (and I've used alot of 'em), I would have to back down 3 to 5 MHz on the fsb to achieve the same sort of stability (using a locked Athlon).

2) tweakable - This motherboard has every feature I could have asked for: Vdimm, Vcore, and Vagp; memory timings; RAID; Firewire and USB 2.0; Vcore over-voltage; onboard sound and LAN: not just a PCI/AGP lock, but variable PCI/AGP bus adjustments (ie: the capability to set the PCI/AGP to whatever you want).

3) overclockable! - 'nuff said.

It's an expensive, feature-laden, board but the P4B-533E proved that you get what you pay for.

 

[Dowfen]

I used this board in a computer I built for a friend. It's like a rock stability wise, I ran into no installation problems, and I used a 330watt Powersupply on a fully configured system.

Not to mention it has a plethora of features. I highly recomend the board.