ASUS – ASUS SK8N & Athlon FX Woes

March 1st 2004 | Hardware

Here’s the INQ’s Fudo reporting the problems he experienced using an ASUS SK8N motherboard (three in a row) to overclock an Athlon FX:

While we were in Denmark we tried to overclock the Athlon FX and we managed to get it to 2870MHz stability but we had some major problems with the Asus motherboard we were using, even when it was not overclocked at all. It was very hard to boot machine with attempts taking two or three times before success. If you were unable to boot it, after a few attempts you had to unplug the power cable, and wait for a few seconds before you could retry.. Well after the second "from scratch" Windows installation and all driver and SP 1 updates we had strange delays where it took up to 20 seconds after the machine was booted to start any application.. That this is not an isolated problem is proved by the fact that we tried this on tgree different SK8N boards. Two of those boards died after flashing BIOS and the third board suffered from same problems.

Asus in SK8N Athlon FX board fiasco @ the Inquirer

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ASUS – ASUS SK8N & Athlon FX Woes
Published in: Hardware on 2004-03-01