Recent content by FirefighterGeek

I hope so. As a few people pointed out, it wouldn't have been that much savings to buy the old board -- assuming I could even find one still on a shelf somewhere. I'm not really impressed with the packaging, but the board seems to work well. My biggest complaint is that the DVD they ship...

Ended up replacing the board, processor and ram. I'm not a gamer so overclocking just isn't needed, but to get a nice board with all the ports I wanted and a decent reputation I went with a "gamer" branded one. A Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 and a Core i7 4790. I don't really like the location...

Fair enough, and I appreciate the time you've taken. I am a fan of Lenovo's "Think" branded products in general -- they seem to have held the standard up after taking that over from IBM a few years back. Still, I'm really just looking for a good ATX mainboard recommendation that's proven...

I suppose it could be a bad board. This was also one of the earlier X58 implementations though so it could be an issue corrected later. I've read of people having problems using all six memory slots in this board and other people with untraceable lock-ups as well. The way this locks up...

I've had an Intel DX580G that has never been reliable. Random hard freezes have plagued this thing along with some I/O issues. I'm increasingly convinced the problem is with the X58 chipset -- either in design or in the way it's implemented on this board. All the drivers, bios, etc. have been...