NVIDIA nForce 590/680i For Conroe, Where Are They? HERE!

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NVIDIA has finally announced when and where it will launch the G80 graphics processor.....This year, the firm's GeForce LAN 3 is set on 7th and 8th of November in "Bay Area"

I read somewhere else that evga will sell the card as a combo with the 680i so this stuff *might* be close than we think!

590 suddenly seems so.. Atari 2400 lol
 
Yeah thats true, I remember I read that somewhere else but it wasnt confirmed. Now it is and is even on the NVIDIA site. good news 😀

One thing, do you guys really trust evga boards? cuz I would like to go for the 680i of ASUS no matter what.
 
Yeah thats true, I remember I read that somewhere else but it wasnt confirmed. Now it is and is even on the NVIDIA site. good news 😀

One thing, do you guys really trust evga boards? cuz I would like to go for the 680i of ASUS no matter what.
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lol after 2 defective evga cards, I'm a little biased 😛 Well, atleast its only a week turnaround now on their RMAs 😛 If asus has a RMA system that was good (and one I'd hopefully never have to use), I'd go with them in a microsecond. 😛
 
I need help from those who purchased this motherboard from EXcaliberPC. Can you check and tell me if there is a motherboard serial number sticker on the ASUS product box you got with the motherboard? I already mounted my mobo (serial number may be on bottom) and the ASUS site states the serial number is on the product box but after talking to EXcaliberPC support, I apparently got the inner black product box but not the outer grey product box that has the serial number sticker and is shown in the pictures on their site. I don't think they believe that I never got the outer box but I save everything down to the last twist tie and plastic bag. Anyway, I want to see if others are missing this outer box as well.

This all started because I needed to contact ASUS support because I noticed that the connectors on the supplied USB raiser (module) and the Firewire raiser (module) don't match the associated connectors on the motherboard. You can connect the connectors but two pins are exposed which I suspect are needed.

Thanks in advance!!!
 
I signed up on that retailers website to be notified when they had the new ASUS board in stock... they say that is it. After looking close....it does say recertified! geeesh!
 
Whenever you buy a newly released product from ANY manufacturer thats the chance you are taking. Nvidia is also a hugely known manufacturer and I had to RMA my 2 7900gts 3x.
 
I figured out that the USB and Firewire raiser connectors do fit the motherboard connectors - the problem was that the motherboard connectors allow you to accidently insert the raiser connectors such that a row of pins are exposed (i.e. they can be shifted by one set of pins).

I am still trying to get the mobo serial number without any luck so I would still like to know if others who bought the mobo from ExCaliberPC got the outer box with the serial number sticker or not.



I need help from those who purchased this motherboard from EXcaliberPC. Can you check and tell me if there is a motherboard serial number sticker on the ASUS product box you got with the motherboard? I already mounted my mobo (serial number may be on bottom) and the ASUS site states the serial number is on the product box but after talking to EXcaliberPC support, I apparently got the inner black product box but not the outer grey product box that has the serial number sticker and is shown in the pictures on their site. I don't think they believe that I never got the outer box but I save everything down to the last twist tie and plastic bag. Anyway, I want to see if others are missing this outer box as well.

This all started because I needed to contact ASUS support because I noticed that the connectors on the supplied USB raiser (module) and the Firewire raiser (module) don't match the associated connectors on the motherboard. You can connect the connectors but two pins are exposed which I suspect are needed.

Thanks in advance!!!
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I never heard a single person RMA'ing their P5B or P5W. I never heard either a single person returning their cards (well yes I did but not because they werent working when they first tried it)

I never had problems with NVIDIA :)
 
No, Im saying that

mcparty wrote

I guess they are becoming more common out there...


http://www.spartantech.com/product.asp?PID=ASP5WD2PREM-REF

not a bad price, but not the best either.
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But when you go to the website they show the motherboard they are selling is the P5WD2 Premium which I think is a workstation motherboard.

BTW, dont ever thing im getting the P5N32-SLI Premium after all this problems im seeing... more reasons to dont buy it.
 
Looks like they sold you an OEM board. Thats sad, they should have atleast mention that they were selling OEM boards, not retail ones.

Anyways, if you got OEM I recommend you return it.
 
The ExcaliberPC support guy I talked to kept saying to find the outer grey box (shown in the pictures on their product page) with the serial sticker and I kept telling him I didn't get any outer grey box. I don't think he believed me but I am a fanatic about keeping everything - I still have every twist tie, screw and plastic bags for a motherboard I bought almost three years ago. He gave me a partial serial number from the build paperwork and said to give ASUS that partial number and say that I bought it from Excaliber but that doesn't fly with ASUS. I called Excaliber back and but got their voicemail so left them a message. I was looking at the shipping box that the product box came in and the product box just barely fits in the shipping box so I wonder if they removed the outer box to fit it in the shipping box.

I also called ASUS tech support three times and ASUS customer service three times trying to get the serial number but no luck so far. Tech support keeps telling me it's the sticker on the parallel port but that number doesn't work on their website when I try to register it, support says to have customer service manually enter it, and their customer service says the number is not valid. Basically, they keep telling me to call the other department (tech support or customer service). I just called tech support yet again and some guy said the call queue is full, took my name and number and said they will call me as soon as possbile - I won't hold my breath. Ha!


So Excaliber is saying they shipped you one without the outer box?? And they won't help you??

Remind me not to buy from them!
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What I decided to do was to get the P5N32-SLI, exchange my Geforce 7950GX2 for a cheap 7300 and live with that for three to six months until the newer motherboards, video cards, quad CPUs, and Vista come out.

I already bought all the other components which only had a 30 return so I wanted to get them fired up and tested plus my current system is starting to have problems and wanted a new system for it craps out altogther. I hope the new mobo's support the 2GB of Cosair RAM I just bought given that it cost me something like $350.

No, Im saying that

mcparty wrote

I guess they are becoming more common out there...


http://www.spartantech.com/product.asp?PID=ASP5WD2PREM-REF

not a bad price, but not the best either.
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But when you go to the website they show the motherboard they are selling is the P5WD2 Premium which I think is a workstation motherboard.

BTW, dont ever thing im getting the P5N32-SLI Premium after all this problems im seeing... more reasons to dont buy it.
 
New system running fine.

Have not OC yet.

Got asus p5n32 pre board, e6700, xfx 7950 gx2, 2gb corsair 6400c pro, sata2 250gb, thermaltake 700w tough power and the cool master 830 stacker case. flow.

I looked in bios and sees the ram at 800MHz.

What setting would be good to OC my system with? Never OC'd before but want to try it.

Ran 3d benchmark 2006 and scored 3533.
 
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