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vanilla_guerilla said:probably when intel sells more than 3 or 4 of them.
vanilla_guerilla said:probably when intel sells more than 3 or 4 of them.
vanilla_guerilla said:probably when intel sells more than 3 or 4 of them.
vanilla_guerilla said:probably when intel sells more than 3 or 4 of them.
plinx0r said:Might want to rethink that statement. Refer to this thread where people with the SATA problem are starting to RMA their 680i boards for the Bad Axe 2.
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Deke said:You may want to do a little research before making comments like that.
It's actually one of the best performing motherboards you can buy, particularly if you're buying a QX. It doesn't get much attention, but Intel isn't know for their "enthusiast" boards. They just quietly go about their business making the most solid mobos in the industry, and they sell a lot of them.
Intel designs them.vanilla_guerilla said:well ok then. the board is not being reviewed by anyone because it is so popular and great. and actually, i believe its foxconn that are quietly going about intels business building the millions of badaxe2 boards that have been bought and universally loved..
sorry about my lack of research.
Improved OC features. And intel I think revised 975 and 965 specs for quadcore making the specs tighter, so possibly the BA2 has these.kirbyrj said:How much better can it really be than the already decent BA1 or the P5W DH?
Apology accepted. Intel sells a lot of boards, and it is quite possible that nobody wants to review a board that is almost identical to a previous board, with improvements. Why spend the time to review a successor to a quite good board, when you have new 680i boards, RD600 board, etc. Not everything is black and white.well ok then. the board is not being reviewed by anyone because it is so popular and great. and actually, i believe its foxconn that are quietly going about intels business building the millions of badaxe2 boards that have been bought and universally loved..
sorry about my lack of research.
kirbyrj said:How much better can it really be than the already decent BA1 or the P5W DH?
dp0001 said:nebulous...
Dan_D said:No idea.
As far as I know, only one Intel board has ever been reviewed by the [H]. That was the Intel D875PBZ if I am not mistaken.
verncat05 said:7. I plan on overclocking it this week, now that I'm home. I'll post more resluts when I do that.
Shawn
verncat05 said:I can give you a few quick comments about it. I've been running it for about 2 weeks, but have been out of town for one of them, so I haven't really started pushing it yet.
1. It is the most stable board I have ever used. Period. If you ask what boards I've used in my system, I'll only list the conroe boards I am comparing this to: Gigabyte DS3, DFI 975X Infinity, Asus P5NSLI and EVGA 680i.
2. Yes, the HD light is directly tied to the Marvell sata raid controller.
3. The mouse will freeze for about two seconds when turning on my external sata hard drive enclosure, which is connected to the red Marvell sata connector. This is more of a minor inconvenience. it really doesn't impact anything.
4. Running this board at stock (ram at 800, fsb at 1066) I get the same 3dMark2005/2006 scores that I did when running the EVGA 680i (at ram 1066, fsb at 1066). Does this mean anything, really? Probably not, but it's a data point.
5. The chipset runs extremely cool, considering it is entirely passive. I have it in a Lian-Li 2000, so any board that doesn't have a heatpipe config is tops in my book!
6. Did I mention it's stable? It's goin on two weeks now without a single lock-up, restart, BSOD, or anything like that. My wife abused the crap out of it while I was gone and believe, if it would have even blinked wrong for a second, I would have heard about it!
7. I plan on overclocking it this week, now that I'm home. I'll post more resluts when I do that.
Shawn
verncat05 said:To be totally honest, the hd light is the only drawback to this board. I can't tell you enough how much I really like it. Let me tell you, I've worked with almost every major board for AMD the last 5 years and the previous-listed Intel boards and this one tops them all. I change motherboards like some people change their underwear, so I can speak from experience on this one.
Shawn
There are people who disagree with you and say the BA2 is the best 975X board on the market. And at $199 a great value.InorganicMatter said:See, the thing is that Intel has created a bad name for themselves in the enthusiast motherboard segment. They have always had a hardass, absolutely no overclocking, policy on their boards, with highly restrictive BIOS features. This board, along with the highly popular Badaxe, while they do allow overclocking, must be modified to unlock the features, and hardly justify the price. The P5WDH and AW9D are quite simply better buys at the moment for 975X boards.
InorganicMatter said:See, the thing is that Intel has created a bad name for themselves in the enthusiast motherboard segment. They have always had a hardass, absolutely no overclocking, policy on their boards, with highly restrictive BIOS features. This board, along with the highly popular Badaxe, while they do allow overclocking, must be modified to unlock the features, and hardly justify the price. The P5WDH and AW9D are quite simply better buys at the moment for 975X boards.
InorganicMatter said:See, the thing is that Intel has created a bad name for themselves in the enthusiast motherboard segment. They have always had a hardass, absolutely no overclocking, policy on their boards, with highly restrictive BIOS features. This board, along with the highly popular Badaxe, while they do allow overclocking, must be modified to unlock the features, and hardly justify the price. The P5WDH and AW9D are quite simply better buys at the moment for 975X boards.
gwhall007 said:The Bad Axe 2 does not need to be modified in any way for the overclocking options. They work straight out of the box. The only option that does not work, yet (Intel is supposed to fix this in a future BIOS release), is changing the multiplier. Otherwise, all OC options work right now. This is one huge difference from the Bad Axe 1!
Oh, yeah, one last thing. I concur; this is the most stable, easy to OC, MB I have ever used. I have used many boards and OC'd them all and I am hugely impressed with this board.
I've thought I read that there are multi adjustments on the BA2 but don't hold me to that.gwhall007 said:The Bad Axe 2 does not need to be modified in any way for the overclocking options. They work straight out of the box. The only option that does not work, yet (Intel is supposed to fix this in a future BIOS release), is changing the multiplier. Otherwise, all OC options work right now. This is one huge difference from the Bad Axe 1!
Oh, yeah, one last thing. I concur; this is the most stable, easy to OC, MB I have ever used. I have used many boards and OC'd them all and I am hugely impressed with this board.
deeznuts said:I've thought I read that there are multi adjustments on the BA2 but don't hold me to that.