money on a platform that's within sight of being replaced.
Yes, Haswell is a new socket (LGA1150), so a new board and CPU will be
required. It's still DDR3 though, so you could re-use your memory.
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Anthony Q.
Martin
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [H] ASUS P8p67 Pro to what?
Greg,
Thanks for the reply.
I will need to read up on Haswell. I take it you think it is worth
waiting for?
Since I might spend $200+ on a mobo, if the features are worth it I
might wait....It's not as if I don't have plenty of PCs in here :). I
just hate that my main rig isn't reliable. The usb 3.0 on this has
always been terrible. Always dropping back to usb 2.0. That alone is
enough reason to move on. I hate to get in the loop with tech support,
though. Nothing I can think of will get my hairs up more than
trying to
deal with tech support.
I sort of think that Haswell will require a new CPU, too, right? I'm
not
sure I really need more than perhaps a speed boost and some
reliability. Definitely need reliable usb 3.0.
I've been running prime95 on this thing for the last day. I don't
think
this is getting me anywhere. I might switch over to memtest next.
On 3/15/2013 10:40 AM, Greg Sevart wrote:
I still like the current crop of Asus boards for the Intel
platform, but
Gigabyte has made up some ground on the UEFI transition after being
way
behind previously.
The good news is that USB 3.0 is finally native (4-ports) in the Z77
chipset, so any board based on that platform should have at least some
native ports. Z77 supports Sandy and Ivy bridge, so you could stick
with
your current 2500K if you wish.
The P8P67 Pro should have a 3 year warranty and was released in Jan
2011,
so
you should be able to get it replaced under warranty--and perhaps
pick up
a
bargain basement LGA1155 board in the interim? From there, I'd wait
for
Haswell.
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Martin
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 10:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [H] ASUS P8p67 Pro to what?
Well, I wanted to upgrade my boot drive from a 160GB Intel to a 512 GB
M4....
Bios would not see it. I was running 1305, which has been stable
for me
since i built this box in early 2011. So, I got the last one,
3602....did the flash. I also swapped out my 1TB WD data drive for a
3TB Seagate (7600rpm).
Well, I never got the boot drive swapped, because as soon as I went to
the new bios my system started crashing....this has been going on
for a
couple of months now. Got on the web and found some third-party tools
that will let you flash back to an easier bios (asus didn't allow for
going back in on this board). So, I flashed back to 2001. Problem is,
it still crashes!
Have no idea what's going on. No idea what to look at either. I'm not
over clocking or anything. There is no pattern I can detect to these
crashes. System has gone up to 4 days with no crashes, but will
sometimes crash in less time. I'd be lucky if I can finish typing
this
email. It always seems to crash on me when doing stuff like this,
where
I can't do an auto save.
Any ideas? Maybe I should get a new mobo? Thinking of maybe a
Gigabyte
this time. I'm running a 2500k. Any reason to upgrade that? I don't
know if I can wait til June for the new chips. I'm a desktop guy.
Don't
really enjoy using a laptop day-after-day. Also, thinking about
building
a dual boot Hackintosh....just because I'm bored with Windows an am
now
really super interested in Win8.
If a new board, what board? I like to get some features on the
board...my current system has crappy usb 3.0, so I want lots of usb
3.0.
And BT support for the Hackintosh, if I decide to do that.
