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Anyone have this board yet ??
What do you think , What cards are you using in it ?

I'm changing from P4C800E and am considering this mb.

Thanks

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et
 
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You know, so was I. However, I changed my mine at the last moment and
ordered the Supermicro P8SAA from "ACME micro systems" instead. It cost
$242 with shipping. I'm adding the Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 ASTA HDD
controller. It has hardware SATA RAID 5 that is fast as lighting. This
combo is a bit more expensive, but I believe better quality and'll give less
problems. Not built yet, stuff still on order. I built a P4C800E system for
a friend last year and the system was really fast. This is the first SM
Mobo that had the right stuff on a single board and DIDN'T have a built-in
Vid card! Well...I do have an older Dual P3 Tualatin Supermicro Mobo,
P3TDDE, form a few years ago that I still use and like quite a bit.

DR
 
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In article <Yqg1d.421$W73.207@trndny03>, et_koko@verizon.net says...
>
> Anyone have this board yet ??
> What do you think , What cards are you using in it ?
>
> I'm changing from P4C800E and am considering this mb.
>
> Thanks
>
>

I've had it not quite a month. It seems to be doing fine, although I
have not really done enough with it yet to proclaim 100% stability. I
only have two cards installed: XFX 5750 (PCX x16) and a cheap
USB/Firewire combo card - both are working fine. I flashed to the 1005
BIOS without incident. I'm using the onboard audio for now and it's
plenty good for my ears. CPU is 3.4GHz P4 and 2xPC-4200 1Gb Crucial
memory.

Dave
 
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I would normally skirt around issues like that by using a battery-backup.
As soon as I power down, I next switch off the battery-backup and that cuts
all power to the system. It then can't turn back on even through a remote
boot via the LAN interface. From what you have said, it does appear you
have checked out most of the obvious causes. Have you looked into the BIOS?
I don't know the BIOS of this board so I can't say what you can or can't do
there. I know some systems can be set to "auto-reboot" as a feature.

SP2 has given my 2yo Soyo system a different "feel". The HDD I/O seems much
slower...well, slower while looking for or scanning for files. SP2 did
trash all my "thumbnail" images I had placed on "thumbnail view" folders
using the customize feature...all 5,717 of them! Little by little, day by
day, I'm putting them back.

DER