perfectcode
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gpanda,
The EXACT same thing happened to me. I RMA'ed my 8IEXP last week, I was so unimpressed with it. Personally, I find it to be the flakiest motherboard I have used in a while.
It felt cheap to me compared to other offerings from Asus and Abit. Like you I won't be purchasing another Gigabyte product again. I believe I will be ordering the IT7 since that board has gotten rave reviews and I feel much more comfortable with Asus and Abit products. At least I know I'm not the only one that had problems with the 8IEXP.
Edit: One more thing, have you noticed the temp readings are super flaky? I couldn't find any way to monitor system/motherboard temp, and the CPU temp would be 47C idle and as high as 70C(!!). This is using an Alpha 8942 which on my P4B266 gets 28C idle and 42C full load. The memory issues (133FSB @ 2.66 divider for 354Mhz should be easily attainable by Samsung True 2700 and Corsair XMS PC3200, both of which I tried on this board), coupled with this make for a board I would not recommend to anyone.
-pc
The EXACT same thing happened to me. I RMA'ed my 8IEXP last week, I was so unimpressed with it. Personally, I find it to be the flakiest motherboard I have used in a while.
It felt cheap to me compared to other offerings from Asus and Abit. Like you I won't be purchasing another Gigabyte product again. I believe I will be ordering the IT7 since that board has gotten rave reviews and I feel much more comfortable with Asus and Abit products. At least I know I'm not the only one that had problems with the 8IEXP.
Edit: One more thing, have you noticed the temp readings are super flaky? I couldn't find any way to monitor system/motherboard temp, and the CPU temp would be 47C idle and as high as 70C(!!). This is using an Alpha 8942 which on my P4B266 gets 28C idle and 42C full load. The memory issues (133FSB @ 2.66 divider for 354Mhz should be easily attainable by Samsung True 2700 and Corsair XMS PC3200, both of which I tried on this board), coupled with this make for a board I would not recommend to anyone.
-pc
Originally posted by: gpanda
I've been playing with my 8IEXP. It is sucking bad.
Specs:
Gig 8EIXP with F4 bios
P4 1.6A
Corsair XMS3000C2 512MB DDR RAM
Here are the modes I have tried:
2.4GHz with 300DDR * 150FSB & 2.0 RAM divider - works fine
2.4GHz with 400DDR * 150FSB & 2.6 RAM divider - no go, this was what I was sure would work
2.2GHz with 352DDR * 133FSB & 2.6 RAM divider - no go, worked fine with the ASUS P4B533 with 222 and no ram voltage upgrade.
I tried upping the ram voltage dropping timings to worst case, etc. but I can't get the ram on the gig board anywhere near 350 or 400.
This board has something broken. I am basically where I was with the ASUS but the ASUS is a better board over all.
I can't even get the much vaunted Easytune 4 to run with Win2K.
I'm just going to hold tight and down the road get another board (after others have found the best of the current crop).
I won't be buying Gigabyte ever again. I should have gotten the Abit BD7II or IT7.