Christian Ney Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 I want names btw engraved cpu pick up by DHL today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerou Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I once had an Asus P5K that could only run 266MHz FSB. When I set 267MHz, the board would not even POST . Beat that! I had a P5K-E that couldn't do more than 330-340 FSB IIRC. So as I was a bit mad, I said WTH and out of fun and madness put 420MHz FSB in BIOS, pressed F10 and there you go - it booted fine, all benchmarks and stress tests passed. So you see, FSB black holes do exist TL/DR : FSB in the range 330-410 wouldn't POST, below and above was fine, Beat that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeneffect Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 (edited) I Triple dare you !! I have a REX, REX3, Maximus IV Extreme for over a year in RMA. From which ASUS RMA dep so called repaired the REX twice, however it never booted. Now after the third visit to the RMA center it's labelled unrepairable looooooooooool. Also a way to cover warranty and let it expire My REX 3 came back from RMA, as dead as could be... CPU was watercooled, one mosfet went down, never ever came back to live: ASUS said it was repaired, yeah right... Maximus IV Extreme , no longer changed bclock : still awaiting the board, must be a darn hard RMA !!! ASUS GET YOUR RMA DEP OUT OF THAT EURO COUNTRY !!! IT's HORRIFIC dude that last one is broken management engine i think. thats just a bios flash from a standalone chip flasher and away you go! Visiontek 3870 - artifacting right out of BNIB Patriot 2400 crap rams - heatsink fell off taking them out of package. insta-return didnt even bother Maximus Formula - First boot out of box, smoke and fire. DFI LTX48T2R - Board stopped working after 2 days. tried for 3 months every day and nothing... 1 year later it boots no problems and has been running in a buddy's rig for a few years now with no issue. Edited July 3, 2012 by zeneffect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Leeghoofd Posted July 3, 2012 Crew Share Posted July 3, 2012 dude that last one is broken management engine i think. thats just a bios flash from a standalone chip flasher and away you go! That's what we suspect too, however we tried ROG flash, hotflashing,... bclock remains stuck at 100... Board is still not back from RMA, unrepairable it seems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew pro Posted July 3, 2012 Crew Share Posted July 3, 2012 Bought ASUS MARS I for 1200€ and it would only run all the benchmarks about 50 MHz downclocked. So it was about as fast as a normal GTX295. this is normal isnt it? i tried 2 PCS and couldnt run stock clocks, but were okay under LN2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 DFI LTX48T2R - Board stopped working after 2 days. tried for 3 months every day and nothing... 1 year later it boots no problems and has been running in a buddy's rig for a few years now with no issue. Complete WIN!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Complete WIN!! My 790FX-M2R had the same behaviour. 88 POST CODE all of a sudden. Tried so many things, 1 week CMOS clear, 6-7 different CPUs, you name it. Then I tossed it into the dead mobo box I had. Other boards were thrown into the box, hitting the DFI. Then, before I was going to throw everything out, I tested all the boards. Used a stick of RAM I thought was dead, and it booted. Worked nicely ever since, except for that +10c coldbug it's always had:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 DFI: Diva Fails Intermittantly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterchief79 Posted July 4, 2012 Author Share Posted July 4, 2012 Ah yes btw: I got that money for the REX back from eBay in the meantime. Board didn't boot after crashing once. I dismounted the coolers, resoldered the NB-chokes and modified the coolers slightly (I abraded some copper so the chokes don't have contact with the cooling system anymore). This was a problem, because the chokes weren't perfectly straight in place and somehow, the coolers pressed against the (already weak) solder jonts. Well, mounted my SS and benched a E3400 after that, board couldn't have worked better PS: Am I right if I say that REX's doesn't like G.Skill Ram? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Ney Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Hypers ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterchief79 Posted July 4, 2012 Author Share Posted July 4, 2012 (edited) I don't think so. Specified for 2133MHz CL9-11-10-28 2T or something. Aren't good chips, just got them laying around. Can run them on Auto, but as soon as I try to change the latencies manually, I don't get a post. Maybe because they are 4GB modules? For benching, I inserted my 1155 Ram (2x2GB AData XPG G 2000MHz CL9-9-9-24 1T). Everything was running fine then. Edit: http://geizhals.de/eu/735666 but only with 2 modules. Edited July 4, 2012 by Masterchief79 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Ney Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 sounds like Hynix to me no feedbacks about Hynix on REX, TaPaKaH may help here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterchief79 Posted July 4, 2012 Author Share Posted July 4, 2012 Hynix is very probable I guess... Well let's put it like this, these aren't mine anyways and also the chips are pretty crappy.^^ I just wondered why they aren't working as they should, could have been a general issue with 4GB modules or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaPaKaH Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 775 doesn't work well with Hynix - it's a fact. You can try manually setting very loose subs (Hynix needs tRFC 120+) but I doubt that'll help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subaruwrc Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 how about a 3770k, I received at 10:37 am on the morning, setup the system at 12 and it died half an hour later during a windows installation at stock settings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Vivi Posted August 17, 2012 Crew Share Posted August 17, 2012 how about a 3770k, I received at 10:37 am on the morning, setup the system at 12 and it died half an hour later during a windows installation at stock settings? now that sucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subaruwrc Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 and im absolutely not happy with that. I won that cpu, and i can't send it back to rma. oooyesss... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Send it to Intel RMA, that could work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subaruwrc Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Its an oem cpu without warranty, and i already pull her apart. looks nasty. https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/420067_513883338629028_519991228_n.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterchief79 Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 Is that still thermal grease, or is the die really discolored? Looks burned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subaruwrc Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 its f...cking blown up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikicoco1334 Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 wow! seems like everyone is getting trolled in here, really hopping my ASUS RMA isnt' gonna be so bad, sent it in last week kinda scared Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterchief79 Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 Hey, Update! As I used my Sandy system (which I normally use 24/7) otherwise, I had to build another system, you know, for gaming etc, from parts that were laying around. I used the REX I was talking about here with a Q6600@3,8GHz and a XFX 5970 BE Limited. So, a few days ago I broke my M4E (again) and repaired it (again -> this board is awesome, one socket pin broke off, one conductor path burned since one of my pals inserted a ram module the wrong way... and one condensator exploded - repaired still working@5GHz 24/7), so I decided to go back for my Sandy 24/7. I then used the REX for benching an E7200 office CPU and got to 595MHz FSB, wait whut? Remember, initially I was stuck at 570... Yea kinda funny, maybe the everyday usage did its thing to the resoldered northbridge phase. As the E7200 only has a 266 default FSB and 595 are already pretty high for this chip^^ I rebenched my E8400, 610MHz FSB just working their way through SPi 32M. Can't explain this change, same settings as before. Concerning ROG boards, I got pretty lucky I guess Three killed, three repaired Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimba Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 could you fix a rex if the socket is stuffed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterchief79 Posted September 22, 2012 Author Share Posted September 22, 2012 What do you mean with stuffed exactly? If it means what I think - most probably no Brocken socket = broken board, I mean you would have like to solder a new socket onto it... I fixed a M4G once with about 20 bent pins once but that's it... To my rex: Works mostly fine now, some small issues (hangs when I try to save bios settings etc.), but much better than before. I tested for max FSB and without much tweaking or clock skew adjusting I got to about 640FSB CPU-Z. Here is the previous E84 32M run: http://hwbot.org/submission/2300403_masterchief79_superpi_32m_core_2_e8400_%283.0ghz%29_9min_21sec_922ms Got that down to 8m53@5350MHz now, with still 2 cores active, further testing tomorrow (or today - it's 3.30 AM here). And we'll also see if I can break my 5608MHz validation from the RF (2C/2T). So, atm I'm happy, apparently got 2 640+ boards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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