Thanks, I did go in there in look around but I didn't see any condensation. I am finding that this system doesn't like a 9 or 10 multi and behaves much better with a multi of 11. As compared to my Maximus Extreme, this board is all over the place. Sometimes when hitting the reset switch, it just totally powers off. As stated above, yesterday morning, it wouldn't let me change any bios settings as it kept reverting back to default. Sometimes it boots up and sometimes it doesn't and it doesn't seem to matter if the clocks are high or not. It just kind of arbitrarily does whatever it wants to do. I might have a bad 1. I'm sure time will tell.
[hwbot] 103769 - QX9650 @ 5110 Vapochill LS / 2x GTX 280 SLI @ 758/1585/2502 Stock Cooling [/hwbot] http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9390853 A little more...
thats only a bit better in each test compaired to this run.... http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9383607 i was expecting more from that sort of cpu speed....
[hwbot] 102018 - 2 x hd4870x2 @ 860/1000 - intel e8600@ 5.274ghz on ss cooling @ 1.60 volt - 2gb pc15000 @ ddr1687 7 6 6 15 [/hwbot] ran out of fsb the maximus extreme tops out at about 530 max on a good day, decent individual test scores but the nvidias nature score pounds the ati's nature http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9415453
dont wanna go off topic to much but do the asus top bios work only for asus card ? if so i will probably pay extra and get an asus one
no it will work on any reference 4870x2 the only difference is you have to force flash it using the -f command as the SSID is different , my x2's are HIS ones and works no probs not really much difference but the main one is that you can run 1000mhz on the memory whereas with mine before anything over 950 and i got artifacts so i think asus has loosened some memory timings and also you can go up to 900 gpu core in ati overdrive (not that they'll run at that ) but you can say set 820 core which mine will run any games at, as all the rest go up to 800 max in overdrive
yes that 3d03 bug is weird, mine and drouges are non bugged scores as all the tests are in line sort of speak but load i have seen on hwbot etc are bugged to hell weird how it only affects 03 not the other benches heres one bugged one for you cowie look at the GT2 score i got , shame i can't claim it as a right score :bawl:
