P5AD2 Prem

[et]

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

 

[DER]

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

 

[Dave]

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

 

[robtroxel]

This board is sweet with the raid controllers and built in WIFI G as
well as 1394B ports. I am having trouble though getting it to stay
off after shut down. 30 seconds later it fires back up. Have had to
turn off using the front off switch by holding in for 4 seconds.
Have flashed the latest bios, turned off the usual wake on lan etc
settings. This started after SP2 was loaded onto XP Pro. Still
tinkering with it since the sys is less than 1 week old. Any
thoughts?

Thanks

 

[robtroxel]

This board is sweet with the raid controllers and built in WIFI G as
well as 1394B ports. I am having trouble though getting it to stay
off after shut down. 30 seconds later it fires back up. Have had to
turn off using the front off switch by holding in for 4 seconds.
Have flashed the latest bios, turned off the usual wake on lan etc
settings. This started after SP2 was loaded onto XP Pro. Still
tinkering with it since the sys is less than 1 week old. Any
thoughts?

Thanks

 

[DER]

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

 

[Dogger]

I've got the board and it is awesome. I bulilt the 2004 Maximum PC Magazine
Dream Machine and I love this board. And as far as any hardware upgrades in
hte future go, I can go a long time. I'm running a P4 3.6 (only because the
P4E is rare as hens teeth. and for graphics card I installed the Asus EAX800
XT PCI Express w/256 MB and I put in 2 gigs of corsair 667mhz DDR. I refuse
to skimp on the power supply and wen t for the PC Power and Cooling 510
Express. O first start up I found the onboard audio to be crap no matter how
I configured it so I went with an Audigy ZS Pro card for good measure. Check
out this here http://www.maximumpc.com/features/feature_2004-08-24.html

Overall, I dont think you can go wrong with this one