The New P5AD2 Premium - Where to get it??

I've read all about Asus's new 925X Chipset Mobo, the P5AD2 Premium on their
Web site, but I can find no vendor that has one for sale. Has anyone built
a system with this Killer board? I can't wait to try this thing out. Any
Help?

 

well, hexus did a Far Cry patch 1.2 eval using it:
http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review_print.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD03OTY=

dawurz

 

It hasn't reached the production stage quite yet.

 

There was reportedly a fabrication issue with the 915 / 925 chipsets.
According to a local reseller, Intel issued an advisory that motherboards
using these chips should not be sold - or words to that effect.
Between the media and everyone else, things have been deafeningly silent.
An Intel press release referred to some few thousand of these chips not
having been fabricated correctly.

So, between the silence and non availability of the boards, one can only
speculate - and that never yields concrete results.

- Tim

 

Thanks for the note. I do remember reading something about a "few" Intel
Chips in the 915/925 chip-set being manufactured incorrectly. However, I
must have mistakenly believed it to be minor and long corrected by now. You
are probably correct. I'll just wait as see. With the amount of money
involved, it shouldn't be too long!

 

Yikes, I was unawares intel was having this problem. can't be good in the
face of 939

 

The problem is real, and Intel did recall the chip, but it's important
to note that it was a fabrication problem, not a design problem -- a
batch of the chips were not properly etched. That could have happened
with any chip.