Im sick to death of sandy bridge. I upgraded two machines to identical specs apart from PSU and Hdd, one for my bro and one for me. The specs were as follows ASUS P8P67 Intel i5 2500k 4Gb Geil RAM GTX 560ti Both worked fine but after a few hours my brothers machine concked out on reboot (fans would come on but no video etc). As I had read about the problems people were having with this motherboard I swapped it for another brand, an MSI P67A GD65. The machine ran fine for two weeks now that is exhibiting the same symptoms as the ASUS (no video, nothing). The last thing he did before it stopped working is reduce the CPU voltage to 1.20v to lower the temperature of the processor. The processor was running at 4.3GHz. My machine continues to run fine at 4.5Ghz where his is dead on its arse again. Could this just be bad luck? Or are we doing something very wrong. This is probably one of those "How longs a piece of string" but any advice would be appreciated. Cheers Ed
How does it run without any overclocking? Obviously all CPUs are different, so it could simply be that he got one that is terrible when OC'd. I'd always reset to stock and see how that works out first, then be conservative with OC increments until you find the sweet spot.
When the ASUS board developed a fault there was no overclock applied so I think it was just a duff board. The MSI one that wont POST was running fine when not overclocked and fine when overclocked. This has just happened when using MSI's own software to try and reduce the CPU voltage slightly. The chip was running at about 35C at idle and about 65 at load. The fan is a Corsair A70. This tweak was just applied for the sake of it TBH. It shouldnt have hapened but it did. Ressetting the CMOS has yeilded nothing unfortunately. Ed
I had an asus p8p67 and that died last week, currently getting it RMA'd I'm assuming that the first versions of the motherboards are just a bit flaky at the moment, but the CPU's seem pretty amazing!
Yeah they are very fast when you can actually get a system to work. Just hope it aint the CPU. I could test the CPU in my own rig but I dare not seeing that my machine is actually stable! Ed
I've had to drop back to 4.2Ghz becuase if I ran any higher, as soon as I put the computer into standby mode, or powered it off, I would just get a blank screen on resume/power up (even though it passed 8 hours of prime 95). My method for fixing was holding the power button down till it turned off, then shutting off the power supply for 15 seconds. I'm going to chalk up a lot of the problems to EFI teething problems, as ASUS normally puts out pretty good stuff. It's just a shame that they appear to have taken the recall as an excuse to stop putting out bios updates (it sounds weird saying 'EFI update')
It sounds like a run of bad luck. I have two computers built both running with an Asus Pro mobo and have had no issues so far (aside from the RAM not being able to run at 1600mhz)
built two identical systems myself but using the gigabyte ud4 boards. using 2600k 8gb vengence 580gtx manage to clock both to 4.6 using the standard coolers. not had one single problem with both. always stick to gigabyte myself lately as ive not had any bad luck with them. sorry to here of your woes
Yes, but I already knew about this issue prior to buying - it is solved by one of the Bios updates Asus released, so it is an issue until Ican be bothered to flash Bios - or in Apr/May just send it back for a new one which will have latest Bios and fixed the SATA II problems.
I think the Gigabyte boards are the best for Sandybridge atm. I haven't heard of anyone having problems with them. My UD7 has been solid as a rock.
Gigabyte is the most reliable because they are using the old school Bios so it was an easy transition to Sandy Bridge. So they are a good choice, but if you want the new and improved sexy Bios you need to go elsewhere and accept it warts and all. Ultimately though, Asus will solve there issues....on the other hand Gigabyte will likely provide an update to use the new style Bios too (no doubt once they have seen all the issues others have had so that when they release it works immediately). So, any board will likely need a Bios update at some point, so it's all about personal preference. Asus, Gigabyte, MSI are generally good quality so nothing keeps any of them down for too long
It sounds like either a UEFI issue, or more likely an issue with the video card itself. Is it giving you any boot beep codes (do the new UEFI boards still have that?)? Is the system booting, but no video out? I don't remember now, but will the P67 boards use the GPU on die? If so, try plugging it in to the MB HDMI/DVI and see what happens with the video card unplugged. Possibly a bad PSU? It could possibly be a bad CPU as well, but that would be my last suspect. Just some thoughts
