Open Box REX................should I?

Kal-EL · #1 04-04-2009

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16813131334R

$159.....lets call it 160 ish.

What do you guys think? I know nip sent a board or two back that were open box.

Chuchnit · #2 04-04-2009

Yes, yes and yes again. If it's borked then send it back and get another. Do it and think about it later.

DrNip · #3 04-04-2009

Man they lowered the prices on those things! Great price. I bought mine for $199 back in Jan but it was with free shipping. That is irrelevant to you though as you live out in the ocean.

YES

you should. You will then need a LCD poster for it though.

http://estore.asus.com/shop/item.asp...4327&catid=615

It comes in handy as it displays different info about your setup as well as lets you do on the fly overclocking within Windows.

clwoodwork · #4 04-04-2009

What the hell, if you don't do it you will wish you did. Get off your ass NOW.

Peace, Chuck

Kal-EL · #5 04-04-2009

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Originally Posted by DrNip

Man they lowered the prices on those things! Great price. I bought mine for $199 back in Jan but it was with free shipping. That is irrelevant to you though as you live out in the ocean.

YES

you should. You will then need a LCD poster for it though.

http://estore.asus.com/shop/item.asp...4327&catid=615

It comes in handy as it displays different info about your setup as well as lets you do on the fly overclocking within Windows.

Is this piece absolutely relevant and necessary to achieve a decent overclock or would I be fine to overclock via the bios? Does this display device allow for on the fly voltage increases?

DrNip · #6 04-04-2009

You could just use the bios and then setfsb if you like. It does allow for you to tweak the fsb and various volt from windows. It would be good for cpuz if you want to squeak out a few extra mhz that you couldn't have because of your boot. But as stated you could use setfsb but I don't think you can tweak the volts with it like you could the lcd poster. Correct me if I am wrong chuchnit but the lcd poster does allow for voltage increase on your cpu, fsb, nb and sb? Its been so long that I'm not 100% positive but pretty positive.

Kal-EL · #7 04-04-2009

Anybody familar with the asus warranty on the rex? How long, does the rma process suck slug, etc?

I'm thinking of just going with the $2xx new rex from the egg.

Screw it, its inbound

Chuchnit · #8 04-05-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrNip

You could just use the bios and then setfsb if you like. It does allow for you to tweak the fsb and various volt from windows. It would be good for cpuz if you want to squeak out a few extra mhz that you couldn't have because of your boot. But as stated you could use setfsb but I don't think you can tweak the volts with it like you could the lcd poster. Correct me if I am wrong chuchnit but the lcd poster does allow for voltage increase on your cpu, fsb, nb and sb? Its been so long that I'm not 100% positive but pretty positive.

Yes the LCD poster monitors like 7 different temps, 7 different volts, can adjust volts for CPU vtt, CPU vcore, NB vcore, SB 1.5v, SB 1.05v, DRAM, and like one more, plus adjust FSB at the bios level within windows.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

Anybody familar with the asus warranty on the rex? How long, does the rma process suck slug, etc?

I'm thinking of just going with the $2xx new rex from the egg.

Screw it, its inbound

ASUS has a three year warranty. You do not have to register it with ASUS like evga so anyone who buys the board has the warranty three years from the date that serial number was produced.

hellcamino · #9 04-05-2009

The trick with an Asus rma is to call in to get it started, the online rma proccess is horseshit. They are pretty hassle free when it comes to an rma though.