Recent content by Arkalius

Just want to follow up on this issue... I ended up picking up a new board (same model) at Fry's and it works perfectly fine so it does seem that the original one did in fact go bad on me. Not sure what the heck happened that caused it but I'm happy now that I have a working one.

Well I'm not ready to give up on ASUS yet. This doesn't just seem to be "nuance". It seems like hardware failure. It refuses to POST no matter what I do. I'm going to buy a new one locally and get that working if possible. Of course, if that fails then I can guess there's actually some other...

I have a P8P67 Pro that was working just fine but seems to have died on me. It won't POST anymore and I really have no idea why.

I did clear the CMOS actually, forgot to mention it. I'll add that to the original post. I didn't do the battery removal thing but that typically isn't necessary. I already updated the BIOS to the latest non-beta version (1003) last night and it was working fine with it.

So I got the last of the parts for my new build, including the ASUS P8P67 Pro. I built everything up and booted and did all the normal stuff, installing Windows and setting up drivers. Aside from a stupid issue with my DVD drive not wanting to read the ASUS driver CD, everything went pretty...

That max value is the max value that the hardware can store. It says nothing about what the processor itself is intended to handle in normal operation.

Still slightly cheaper to buy both from TigerDirect with 2-day shipping for me, since I pay tax at newegg.

Yes, flash your BIOS and take up some customer rep's time at the manufacturer so you can disable a helpful feature that doesn't negatively impact performance all for your peace of mind that your processor can wastefully do nothing really really fast. Sounds like a solid plan! :)

I had a similar, though not quite so colorful experience at the Microcenter in Tustin, CA. I ordered online the night before. I woke up to find the order cancelled e-mail. I went to the store, arriving about 15 minutes after opening. It seemed like none of the employees really knew what the hell...

I wasn't planning on splitting the SSD. I'm more concerned with the 1TB HDD I have.

Well my windows will be on an SSD. Do you gain any objective benefit from splitting up like that, or is just a personal organization preference?

So I'm getting ready to build my new system. I have a 1TB HDD in it and I'm wondering how to partition it. Typically, I just create one partition and go with that. I was wondering though if there's some benefit of splitting up partition while lacking any other specific need to do so.

OK then, mystery solved. Some RMA worker really effed up taking this in as a return and letting it go out to be resold. That, or some warehouse worker is getting frisky with the merchandise and managed a nice little upgrade for himself. I hope they have records that can let them catch the...

Their Tcase is around 75, which is the temp at which they start throttling back. Their max is something like 98 or 99, at which point they probably shut down for safety.

Actually the 2600K has a better IGP than the 2600. It's just that the P67 chipset boards (which allow overcloking the processor) don't support IGP. H67 supports IGP and IGP overclocking, but not processor overclocking. It's really wacky what they've done.