DEAD DEAD Chenming Qware Mini Barebone, I didnt even get a chance to get one :(

[funboy6942]

Well I have bought from them over 2 year period and never had one problem with them at all and I have bought all kinds of small little free shipping stuff over the 2+ years, and I have linked a many of things of their stuff and haven't actually had one person come back in one of the threads and complain about what they have gotten from them, and on the first page its 15 people in almost a years time. That to me doesn't seem all that bad for I am sure with their prices on stuff they do a hell of a lot of sales, to have only pissed off 15 people enough to make a comment. Then you have to wonder on all the good comments because people are more inclined to write something bad before anything good, hell I haven't even gone there and posted all my good experiences yet

I take the resellers rating site myself with a grain of salt and go by what people write up in threads and on google with companies I never dealt with.

 

[winr]

Thanks FB.


The Chemmings site shows the Socket GK8N having 1 x UDMA.

CS shows it having 2 x UDMA.

Which one is right ??

I cant imagine the mobo having only one IDE channel.


EDIT:
Heres another link to the 754 unit.

http://www.amdboard.com/chenming_gk8n.html

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: winr
Thanks FB.


The Chemmings site shows the Socket GK8N having 1 x UDMA.

CS shows it having 2 x UDMA.

Which one is right ??

I cant imagine the mobo having only one IDE channel.


EDIT:
Heres another link to the 754 unit.

http://www.amdboard.com/chenming_gk8n.html

Well I am not to sure where you found that info at on their site for I cant find squat on the 754 one other then the driver. I did however DL the manual for the Socket A one and it lists it as having 2 IDE controllers, I would have to assume since the 754 is also a Nvidia Chipset as well , just a upgrade to a different socket and the number 3, but, in the same case, it would also have 2 as well. I guess we will have to wait for someone here that bought one to chime in and say for sure how many it actually has though to be sure for I am guessing and pulling it from my ass .

 

[I4AT]

Also, according to the Chenming site there are no SATA ports? If there's only 1 IDE port and no SATA I guess a CD-ROM drive is out of the question?

 

[shinson]

1 connector supports 2 devices.
I would think that a box that small would only need 1 IDE connector, allowing for one HDD and one cd or DVD.
I don't think you could fit more than 1 of each in there anyway.....

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: shinson
1 connector supports 2 devices.
I would think that a box that small would only need 1 IDE connector, allowing for one HDD and one cd or DVD.
I don't think you could fit more than 1 of each in there anyway.....

All of my old sff units I have ownd had 2 connectors for 4 devices, you have one slot for one optical drive but like in this case have two places for 2 HDD drives if you remove the card reader, and in the case of my old Qbic case, it has room for 3 HDD drives and one optical. And it was a 754 socket machine that ran on the Nvidia3 chipset.

Why this one would only be made for one cable would be stupid and highly doubtful IMO. May not have SATA, WTH its OLD in computer tech, but not that old to have one IDE cable connection.

 

[I4AT]

Originally posted by: shinson
1 connector supports 2 devices.
I would think that a box that small would only need 1 IDE connector, allowing for one HDD and one cd or DVD.
I don't think you could fit more than 1 of each in there anyway.....

Oh right, I completely forgot about that cause I've always put my CD/HD's on seperate channels. Nvm then.

 

[hottnucks]

I wonder if this would work with a Turion CPU?

$69.00 @ the Egg

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: I4AT

Originally posted by: shinson
1 connector supports 2 devices.
I would think that a box that small would only need 1 IDE connector, allowing for one HDD and one cd or DVD.
I don't think you could fit more than 1 of each in there anyway.....

Oh right, I completely forgot about that cause I've always put my CD/HD's on seperate channels. Nvm then.

I always thought that it was better to put the HD and optical drives on separate channels because the latter would slow down the former.

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: hottnucks
I wonder if this would work with a Turion CPU?

$69.00 @ the Egg

Hmmm. One of the reviews says:

"This cpu will work on SOME desktop boards, but NOT on all. You MUST do your own research to find if your board supports these cpu's. Also this will NOT work with the default Heatsink mount. You will need to either heavily modify the heatsink, the board, or buy a through-board mounting heatsink that requires removal of the stock heatsink bracket. So of course, trying to use this in ANY desktop board immediately voids your warranty."

Here's a link to a Google resulting page.

 

[wazzledoozle]

Do these guys take paypal?

 

[TruePaige]

Mmm...recent reseller rating is too low or i'd bite.

 

[Braxus]

I have one of these boxes and have been using it for about 2 months. For the most part it's ok.

I couldn't find an updated BIOS specific for this motherboard but found that the GA-K8N BIOS works fine with this model. The only thing it seems to remove the fan control. Without it, the PSU/Heatsink fan sounds like a jet engine. Figured the extra features and fixes the updated BIOS brings (e.g. Sempron E3 AMD64 core support) was worth the extra noise. Could always slap a resistor somewhere in there I guess.

I'm sure you can inject the fan control code from the original one to have BIOS supported control but I haven't put too much time into researching where that code is located.

 

[kenton]

MCP-T = Dolby Digital Soundstorm in Windows XP with nVidia Drivers. VERY HOT

 

[bidzina]

Did anyone find out how many IDE connections does the motherboard have?

Also, does it have any overclocking features?

 

[jalaram]

The first link posted has the details for both system.

The GK7N has 2 IDE connections and the GK8N has 1.

 

[mdetz]

Originally posted by: hottnucks
I wonder if this would work with a Turion CPU?

$69.00 @ the Egg

Nice find. dammit, in for one qware and one mt-37. user results are good on the k8n-pro, so I'll cross my fingers. I can prolly dump the mt37 pretty easy if it doesn't work.

 

[bidzina]

Hmmm... I'm suspicious putting HD and CDROM on the same IDE channel... That should limit the transfer speeds to maximum of what CDROM has... ATA33 or ATA66 in the best case...

Is that still true if CDROM is not actively transferring data?...
Has anyone tried that?

 

[redgren]

looks like the GK8N version is gone now. The GK7N remains in stock.

 

[hottnucks]

Originally posted by: redgren
looks like the GK8N version is gone now. The GK7N remains in stock.

Crap...I knew I should have went ahead and bought it but nooooo...I had to wait

 

[shinson]

Did anyone get theirs yet?

I would love to get some more details.

I will post when I get mine...

 

[Syndicate]

OUCH OUCH OUCH HOT HOT -- Cancelled my order... Ugh. I had to be a pretty early order too. Got a "hand typed" notification this morning from "Larry". What took so long to finally tell me they did not have stock? I can see why their ratings are suffering.

Edit: The order was for 2x of the 754 barebones. They had charged my card last week in full.

 

[Squyd]

Ordered mine last week too. haven't got any email confirmation (nor cancellation) and credit card was not charged. If it's OOS the order must have died naturally.

I wonder if you need a CPU cooler for this, if you have a OEM CPU.

 

[jalaram]

According to the spec, the heatpipe is built in.

 

[foofoo]

Originally posted by: Syndicate
OUCH OUCH OUCH HOT HOT -- Cancelled my order... Ugh. I had to be a pretty early order too. Got a "hand typed" notification this morning from "Larry". What took so long to finally tell me they did not have stock? I can see why their ratings are suffering.

Edit: The order was for 2x of the 754 barebones. They had charged my card last week in full.

Same thing just happened to me - sales order was dated 2/23/2007. I though that I was in relatively early as well.

Did anyone get delivery of these? (754 barebones)

my review of them will only add to their ratings woes.