My wife doesn`t like me to have it up or running without her permission also. Mainly if I am excited without her nearby. But when I am up and excited and she arrive by surprise she always put me in the wall. I think your wife is right c303a.
I need to study English again, this is getting very tricky.
Crazy Duke making a lot of confusions.
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the nice new Asus board arriived. I/O package was open so it was an open box and not new. When I started placing components on it to see how everything fit together I noticed one big glaring item. No way was the sli bridge that I have going to work. The 2 GEN3pci-e slots are a lot closer together and this board did not have a sli bridge. After thinking about it I decided to RMA the board to the egg. I really didn't want the trouble of maybe installing everything and then have a bad board since someone else already seems to have had it. I have ordered a more expensive board and have it coming air so I should have it tomorrow. Asus P8Z68-V/GEN3.This will allow pci-e 3.0 later if I ever get to that point.
I have to say that I have never had a better customer experience then with the egg. No questions asked. RMA e-mailed and a prepaid UPS label e-mailed. Great servicce.
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I have to agree there customer service is great but im really getting concerned about this open box stuff the motherboard i ordered also seemed to be open box and now after all the issues with moo and the 6950 the board finally craped out im having to rma my board off so my I7 will be going offline soon.. So what board did you go with im really thinking of just ordering a new one and this time not skimp on it.
I ended up going with the Asus P8Z68-v/gen3. It was a little more then I wanted to spend but I think I can upgrade to better video cards later on. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131792
The big differeence as far as crossfire and sli on this old board and this one is that this one has a pci-e slot and a pci slot between the pci-e x 16 slots. That give me the ability to run with the sli bridge thta I have and not have to go looking for one for a crossfire rig. I just don't use ATI cards. I am a die-hard NVIDIA person.
The new board is out for delivery. I hope he gets here earlier then he usually does. 4 PM means I will be up till the wee hours again.
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I ordered new and I am pretty sure that it was an open box. When the i/o plate packaging is torn open and the plate is bent a little it is a pretty good indicator that you have received an open box.
The new board is up and running! I have not installed Boinc yet since I decided to really get reckless and do an absolute clean install. I thought I would start fresh. I had to put a lot of things onto my external drive and then transfer them to the c and d drives. I think I got everything important, if not tough.
The board installed very easily and booted on the first try. Memory is running at 1921 and cpu is at 3.5+. I have not gone into any ocing yet because I ran out of Thermal paste and the cpu runs very hot with the Intel junk. I am at 60 degrees c. I ordered some from Compusa this afternoon. Hopefully will get it by Monday or Tuesday.
All I will say about the I7 compared to my Q6600 is WOW. This thing screams.
OK time to download boinc and see where the temps go. Hopefully I will be able to run the 2 gpu at least and maybe a couple of cores of boinc.
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