:D Happy Days :D

Yeah my will be here tomorrow! See if this thing will run better than the Classy under cold. :D

A direct comparison is in order between E762 and Ax3

I'm interested in max bclk comparisons..... in for the results :Hi:

good luck guys you will really love the board. I only got to use it for a while but I could probably answer some question

Didn't get much done last night except for insulating and booting into windows. I actually got sidetracked reading the manual. :blink: Trying to get familiar with all the LED's - there's a lot of them and they seem to replace post codes when not using the laptop thingy. And a bunch of "clear CMOS" buttons on the board that aren't "clear CMOS".....

Be a few days before freezing. Gonna try out the laptop thingy and maximize fermi setup before the cold. Besides, I sold my HX1000 and am stuck with a single CPU plug 750 Silencer until my TPQ 1200 OC arrives tomorrow.....

Very nice board design. LED's, buttons, voltage readouts, LN2 jumper, easy PCIE slot disabling,.....this thing takes a lot of Classified 762 stuff and makes it more accessible while benching and more user friendly.

very well put :) find the q-flash button top left of the board?
Im glad they used switches not jumpers for the slots disabling.

do you know what bios it shipped with?

I saw some 3d records made with the 0402 (03/31) but dont know if this is the BIOS it comes with. What version have you used at the ASUS OC event?

Didn't check the number, but the BIOS date mine shipped with was 3/31.

Only gripe I have so far is the limited real estate compared to the 762 (a nod to case users, I guess....). NB sink is too close to the first PCIE slot - gonna be super tight with thumbscrews and insulation on the backside of the card - and completely eliminate its use with some cards modded with supplemental caps.

Splave, you have any of the documentation or presentation material from the event we can use?

If there is a way to use the ROG connect feature to get a bios dump from the competition board that would be nice too
:D

no not really, just what can be found on the ASUS site. 402 was the bios we were on at the compo. It was good but not perfect IE set some random voltages think one of the ich or ioh voltages decided to go to 2v or something on its own.


The different cooling mode options, the bios engineer didnt even know what they did so I wouldnt worry about them. hmm what else, I know you can flash the bios with just a PSU connected to the board which is kinda cool.

Also pure didnt even use VRM sinks on their board the power circuitry is epic. :cool3:

Board in the house but the testing will have to wait until the weekend! :this: Just no time during the week here on my end. Also my new ram should be here on Friday so perfect timing I would say. :thumbsup:

^ nice ram pun, perfect timing har har

Board is present and accounted for including 3003 of the Alpha Quandrant. I'm seriously thinking of bailing out on the new work "forum developement committee" and taking vacation for the rest of the month. They'd prolly pitch a huge fit seeing as I'm the only knucklehead with a clue how to operate it.

Better send that back and tell them to kindly replace it with a B batch.

Nah, I'll give it a run since the batches are all over the friggin place these days. I'll rma it when it doesn't post anymore.

That's the spirit. If it don't clock good, make it clock good with 2v+. Then send the busted junk back to intel. I like where you're going with this. :cool3: IMHO, everygbody should do this just to tell intel to piss off with their high prices and all over the place batches on 32nm. :Dizzy:

Agreed! They have more cash than god itself and can take a little hit. They posted a large gain for the last quarter so they can take it.

Well I would like to say that Thuban or AMD's next arch will drive intel's prices down. I mean you can so far get i7 920 clock for clock performance for the same CPU price, but the top end board is way way less than 1366. $230 for Crosshair IV and what, $400+ for 1366 board.

In reality though, if anything intel will lower their prices oh so slightly, and AMD will creep theirs up to expand margins. No company wants to sell a hexacore for $300.

There back

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131642

Just wondering if anyone that got these is experiencing any HIGH IOH temps??

I can't really RMA this and when I first fired it up it went to 100 and shut down..Then I re-seated the stock one and it went to 80..Then i put the one they give you with a fan and it went to 66c..I think that is still high and i could have a warped NB plate on the MB...Besides that this thing is Great...LOL

IOH = input/output HOT hub

What does that mean as far as I might have to RMA????

Did you clean all the NOOB TIM they put on and replaced it with something else?

Yes, I put mx-3 on with the stock one and then mx-3 with the one they send with the fan...66 at 3.612 is too hot isn't it HR????

The stock one runs 80 at idle

What is the voltage you pump through this thing? I don't know since I didn't fire up mine yet. I getting my new ram today and will do some testing on it probably during the weekend.

It is on auto now but i think around 1.11 is auto and the lowest...I have looked on XS and most of them seem to be around 55 with the stock one that comes on it...

When I first fired it up I was just sitting in the bios and it has a 100c shut down and it did....I know i live in Florida but damn the house has a/c.....

it is at 66 now with the nice heat sink they give you but that is too hot...

Screw it.....I am making a call....This thing is just too nice to deal with a warped nb plate

Mine runs in the 30's.

I replaced the small removable sink on mine right off the bat with the meatier one and removed their laughable little token fan - I use high CFM ultrakazes and tornadoes in that area, depending on what will fit.

I bet yours has crappy TIM job on the NB itself. Sounds like you just took off the small NB sink. I'd suggest removing the whole heatsink complex that includes the SB and the mosfets and checking the TIM. I saw one picture of a guy with his new R3E that only had TIM contact on half his NB and SB to the heatsink apparatus.

Yeah if you are willing to part with it for a RMA. My board I got is clearly used and so are accessories and was sold as new to me by the EGG. I'll run the shit out of it and if its not running like I want it RMA and get a new board.

Thats crap..I would call them now..Tell them it is used and even though it is replacement only they will do refund and you can order another and play with this one until Monday..You have 14 days to get it back..They will also give you the return label...I have done this many times...

Just put that NY charm on them....LOL

I on the other hand just called the guy who gave me this and said i will need another...LOL

Patch
I saw on XS where they are running 55 with the stock heat sink...Don't you think i could be dealing with a warped NB plate if I am at 66 with mx-3 on???

My temps are much less than 50.

Sure it could be warped.

Your temps sure sound like poor contact with the NB itself. Make sure you've taken off the whole heatsink apparatus to check.

Check out HR's pic of his poor NB contact:
http://www.overclockaholics.com/foru...05&postcount=1

So could anybody tell me now if you have 3 bolts holding the X58 part of the heatsink in place or only two. Like shown in my thread I only had 2 bolts in there even though the are 3 threaded holes in there. :blush:

Shoot, I forgot to look buddy, I'll get on it when I sneak home from work later ;)

Mine had 2 also There is a place for the 3rd..Not sure why it wouldn't be there......I had a little better seating with those squares..They were set correct...
Then again, I am the one with the IOH heat problem..The plate does not seem to be warped so I can only assume the NB or IOH is defective...Either way I dropped it off today and should have another on Monday...
I didn't bother to clock this MB with a hot NB...
90-105 with stock heat sink

62-80 with the extra fancy heat sink....
The stock should be around 50c....
http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/p...2189/PC031.jpg

sorry about the second post..i am on the lappy and can't seem to get into the bottom using edit...

As you can see this had the squares which were correct....Didn't have tim like yours did..I am wondering if the person who had your MB first changed this???
http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/p...2189/PC033.jpg

Ohh no I had the squares as well. I scraped this shit off and put some TIM on. Also regarding to the bolts so you had 2 as well even though there is 3 threaded holes? Interesting. :thumbsup:

This is a bit new to me but let me ask like a noob would....Yes there is 3 threaded holes with 2 screws...There is no tim on the sinks after I pulled the top piece off...They don't use the squares and tim do they???

The heat sinks were clean....No Tim at all..I just figured that was what the squares were for..I would have cleaned it off but once i saw no warp I knew it was going back....should run 50ish with the crap squares...not 100...

This pic sucks, it makes the sinks look like something is on them but they are clean..
http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/p...2189/PC032.jpg

wow, look at the CPU..I wiped that as soon as I took off the block with 95% alcohol...it looks shiny..look what the camare reveils...

You can't hide chip-abuse...

The squares are actual TIM when they apply it and this shit hardens so when you take off you heatsink you need to scrape it and redo it. Cant just slap this hardened stuff back on the mobo. :ohcrap: