Is there a better board than P5B Deluxe?

I've been having some problems with a couple of P5B Deluxe mobos. Latest is
one that worked for 2 months, now won't post. If I take memory out, I get
the memory beeps, but that's it. Will not get video beeps with memory in and
video out.

The more I read about all the problems with the P5B, I'm wondering if this
is another problem board like the P4T533-C.

Any thoughts?

Is there a better board I should look at?

thanks.

 

I'm not aware that there were problems with the P4T533-C.

However, I've been using Gigabyte motherboards instead of Asus, and have
been very happy with the GA-965P-DS3.

 

I too went for several years without a single problem with the
P4T533-C.

 

I love my high end P5N32-E-SLI that uses the 680 Nvidia chipset.

 

Probably 50% of the machines I built with P4T533-C's ended up getting RMA'd.
Asus Tech Support didn't even question me when I called it was that common
at the time, just set up the RMA. Probably 10% more died after the 3 year
warranty. Just one day, they wouldn't POST anymore.

Thanks for the reply.

 

I used a lot of p4T533-C's, and also P4T533's (still have some). And I
know a lot of other people who did. The only problems I am aware of was
a power supply issue on the early P4T533's (without the -C) that
required them to be RMA'd if you wanted to use the 3.06GHz CPU with
Hyperthreading.

 

The ones I received from Asus are all still running. At the time, one of the
tech's told me what component it was, but I forgot. The early ones were the
problem so I presume they fixed it somewhere in there.

Real shame, because it's a pretty good board otherwise. I'm still using one
of the rma replacements in my shop - great machine.

Do you remember the P2000C (or something like that). Asus actually gave us
our money back for them and trashed the board. I think it was an Intel
controller problem - my memory fades though....

 

I have P5B Deluxe for more that two month now and I have
no problems what so ever.

My config is:
Asus P5B Deluxe (3 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Dual
Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
CPU Type DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2400 MHz (9 x 267)
Memory Crucial; Total 2046 MB PC2-5300
Chipset Intel Broadwater P965
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
Disk Drive SAMSUNG HD501LJ ATA Device (465 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive SAMSUNG SP2504C ATA Device (250 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H22N ATA Device
(DVD+R9:8x, DVD-R9:8x, DVD+RW:18x/8x, DVD-RW:18x/6x,

 

I'll second that - I've had several P4T533-Cs and never a hiccup. Two are
still running daily and working just fine.

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John

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