bad axe - Intel D975XBX Motherboard

[Neil-UKWSD]

I just hope that the Mobo can take the Core 2 Extreme and the AC Freezer 7 Pro will be ok with said CPU.

[Krakpot]

I have an arctic freezer pro too, not sure how it would fix on the motherboard.

[Neil-UKWSD]

Fitting to the mobo shouldn't be a problem (had a quick look earlier), I was more thinking if it would be ok for the Core 2 CPU's.

[Pingu2003]

Seems everyone who has board hasnt got a chip and vise versa. Im the latter .

i have both but apparantly i cant show any benchmarks for no reason i know of, lol
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[D-BEAR]

I'll make this double post usefull....here's the link about Bad Axe.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...t=Bad+AXE+dead

[D-BEAR]

Do you guys know many badaxe boards are dying .....check link above.

[BubbySoup]

I think you will find a lot is to do with people running the board out of spec and/or heavily volt modding it. Intel make some of the most stable motherboards out there, but they have never been known for their ability to vastly overclock. This board overclocks fine for the casual overclocker, but the guys over at XS are not exactly what you could call casual.

[Pingu2003]

dabs has rev 304 in stock confirmed.

[Neil-UKWSD]

Hi,

I have a friend now looking to buy a bad axe mobo, any idea when more will be instock?

[xms]

I just bought myself the Asus P5W from OCUK - Sorry Scan i did try waiting

[Metroid]

I just bought myself the Asus P5W from OCUK - Sorry Scan i did try waiting

I hope Scan will not be as expensive as Overclokers is.

[Consumption]

I just bought myself the Asus P5W from OCUK - Sorry Scan i did try waiting

Do you know what bios revision it shipped with? Apparantly you need revision 0502 or higher for it to work with Conroe. I think they might be shipping with 0401

[Mesce]

Do you know what bios revision it shipped with? Apparantly you need revision 0502 or higher for it to work with Conroe. I think they might be shipping with 0401

The p5wdh will work with conroes out of the box but if you have an ES conroe that is only the time you will need to flash the bios. So if you have any other conroe apart from ES its good out of the box

[kalniel]

Righty-ho

I'm back from lunch and guess whats on my desk...

1 of the Asrock boards and on it in HUGE letters is Conroe & Presler and near the memory DIMM slot is the following code ;

Rev G/A 2.03 and above this is the phrase "Intel 04B and 04A" processors

I hope this information helps

ASRock (and ATI) save the day, again (even if the scan item specs/description leaves something to be desired)

edit: or not.. as it's not dual channel memory??

[Consumption]

The p5wdh will work with conroes out of the box but if you have an ES conroe that is only the time you will need to flash the bios. So if you have any other conroe apart from ES its good out of the box

Cool is this for definite? There's a post in this thread here that says you need 0502 but he could well be refering to ES.

[charleski]

The p5wdh will work with conroes out of the box but if you have an ES conroe that is only the time you will need to flash the bios. So if you have any other conroe apart from ES its good out of the box

That's a significant piece of news. The one thing putting me off the Asus was this talk of Conroes not POSTing on the earlier BIOSes.