ABIT AV8 Motherboard Review
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Holly crap, what a move! Goes to show nhow much I know. My God imagine taking every mobo out of the box, installing a CPU/HSF, HDD or Floppy etc. and flashing it? There must be another way right? Isn't there simply a device you can use to flash the CMOS without even dropping a CPU in the socket?
I simply can't imagine taking out boards installing CPU/HSF wiring them up, attaching a floppy and flashing the BIOS.
ExCaliper, they are pretty good, I've got a few things from them, they used to go through all the stepping's on their CPUs. Now something like that which a Huge-arse company like Newegg won't do, and takes all of two seconds to look for a stepping. Especially considering the trays they get are probably in order anyway. This gives me an entirely new outlook (express) on the re-seller business. I wonder what cost must be on a $159 mobo, if your spending that much time in labor fudging with it. Still, I'd much rather flash my own BIOS thank you. Unless it's circumstance where say Prescott 478 comes out and the board won't boot with it. SO you have to return the board so they can flash it and send it back, but that's kind of prima facie.
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I simply can't imagine taking out boards installing CPU/HSF wiring them up, attaching a floppy and flashing the BIOS.
ExCaliper, they are pretty good, I've got a few things from them, they used to go through all the stepping's on their CPUs. Now something like that which a Huge-arse company like Newegg won't do, and takes all of two seconds to look for a stepping. Especially considering the trays they get are probably in order anyway. This gives me an entirely new outlook (express) on the re-seller business. I wonder what cost must be on a $159 mobo, if your spending that much time in labor fudging with it. Still, I'd much rather flash my own BIOS thank you. Unless it's circumstance where say Prescott 478 comes out and the board won't boot with it. SO you have to return the board so they can flash it and send it back, but that's kind of prima facie.
Props to Abit man their great!
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That would pretty much be the fastest way to do the fix. That's the way it was done when I worked at SCI several years ago. We had a station where you just popped in one chip after anther all day long, talk about a boring job. It's almost as bad as checking ram sticks............ I only could work there for a year before I started to go crazy.
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Just a little heads-up, there should be a new Bios out for the AV8 (18) in a few weeks to address some of the major complaints about the board (high temp readings). I've got no complaints about high temp readings... At stock settings I'm at 27-29c idle and 35-37c load. Overclocked, max load temp has been 42c so far and that was in a 79F room...........
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it could be like the thermalright xp90 and include a new mounting plate and retention bracket for the mobo. all you have to do is remove the stock amd one and put on the new one. my guess is they made the cooler to fit the intel bracket and just include an adapter for the amd to intel bracket.
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