Post your luck with DFI Experts and/or RDX200 boards

[Revv23]

funny how everyone thought the old lanparties werent stable boards.

there is obviously something wrong here, if you are having what looks to be more then 2% of your boards failing its time to step up and at least pull your product until you figure out what the hell is going on.

especially when its a board in this price range.

[palehorse]

everything in my system was good-to-go from the first time I hit the power button.

my first DFI, but it certainly wont be my last!

The only complaint I have at all is the bug that has the Expert reporting low temps. other than that, no problems at all, and im lovin it!

[Sume4]

funny how everyone thought the old lanparties werent stable boards.

there is obviously something wrong here, if you are having what looks to be more then 2% of your boards failing its time to step up and at least pull your product until you figure out what the hell is going on.

especially when its a board in this price range.

I think its not nowhere near 2% cus prolly the pissed crappy board owners are more eager to post here.

[-.-PhanTom-.-]

not quite compatible with Seasonic...

In what way?

[Revv23]

I think its not nowhere near 2% cus prolly the pissed crappy board owners are more eager to post here.

Hard to say i guess, but from the looks of this poll almost 30% of the boards that XS members have are failing, and several are taking things with it.

[slow'puter]

In what way?

It seems that the Seasonic unit I have is not controlling its voltage well. I find more stability with the OCZ than with the S12.

[mdzcpa]

Hard to say i guess, but from the looks of this poll almost 30% of the boards that XS members have are failing, and several are taking things with it.

Not really.

When the poll was first made we had dozens of people from around the net sign up just to report problems with the board. The issue with this was that all the original trouble reports (with dead hardware) were only here on XS. No other major OC forums reported CPU deaths or anything similar. Accordingly, everyone with "an issue" flocked here to XS to report trouble.

The results are indeed very skewed.

[Revv23]

Not really.

When the poll was first made we had dozens of people from around the net sign up just to report problems with the board. The issue with this was that all the original trouble reports (with dead hardware) were only here on XS. No other major OC forums reported CPU deaths or anything similar. Accordingly, everyone with "an issue" flocked here to XS to report trouble.

The results are indeed very skewed.

I see, I guess that changes things. Still, the fact that people are coming here with reports about dead CPU/ram even today makes me not want to use this board, as i dont want to take any chance of getting a bad board. If i kill something i want it to be my fault. Not faulty engineering. i guess its just a personal choice.

[Hellion]

Pardon me for intruding but the main reason people are still buying this board is its overclocking capabilities.Even the MSI Diamond + cant beat it by far as we seen in the review in here.The asus seems to have not been able to overclock that high too and has basic layout problems.My first thought seeing the DFI board was excellent layout and at last 4 phase pwm circuitry-100% japan caps.(though x16 sli would be welcome too)
On the other hand beeing just close into upgrading my old 754 rig(a64 Clawhammer C0 10x250,Dfi nf3 250gb,2x512 3700eb,X850xtpe 570-610)to a opteron 170,2x1gb tracer( which i bought last day before they were off ),XFX GTX256 i stand to think why should i risk to buy a DFI board that is responsible for these monstrosity killings of other hardware parts .
After seeing all these people having problems, something telling me dfi is doing something in secret( i hope so),or else their credibility would go below the lowest basement of scyscraper.
So im asking all the "crazy" people here that lost one Expert ; are you ready to try out a new one or gone to a model less overclockable but more life time warrantied from another mobo manufacturing company?

[thunderstruck!]

I think those who've had their Experts died bought new ones (or RMA'd them) to replace the dead ones. I haven't heard of a dead one lately, so after initial paranoia, I'm getting one for the awsome layout, 4-phase, and OC ability.

[AaronATX]

The first RDX200 I got from the 'egg, purchased a few days after it was first offered was a dud. RMA'd the board, and it runs like a champ. Very satisfied. Have yet to get the $$$ to give crossfire a shot.

[kiwi]

Expert day 1, everything fine so far. Updated to 12/7 (now official already) bios which obviously solves cpu killing problem.

[TankGuys]

For what it's worth, we've had very few returns on Expert boards (<2% or so) but a TON of returns on the Crossfire boards (~50%). I regret ever stocking the crossfire boards, they ended up costing us an arm and leg.

That being said, I hear the new revision works much better, and people are having FAR fewer problems. I'd be interested to see... but either way, I'm not stocking them anymore.

[irev210]

For what it's worth, we've had very few returns on Expert boards (<2% or so) but a TON of returns on the Crossfire boards (~50%). I regret ever stocking the crossfire boards, they ended up costing us an arm and leg.

That being said, I hear the new revision works much better, and people are having FAR fewer problems. I'd be interested to see... but either way, I'm not stocking them anymore.

lol yes, the crossfire boards seemed like they were trouble at first.

I havent heard much lately though.


Only issue I have with the expert is the Vcore temps. totally wrong and they wont fix it.

[Alex10]

As heading says, a few weeks ago turned pc on everything was fine, to it switched it self of, never turned on again. I heard a buzzing noise though just after it switched off. Was using latest offical bios also.

[Revivalist]

As heading says, a few weeks ago turned pc on everything was fine, to it switched it self of, never turned on again. I heard a buzzing noise though just after it switched off. Was using latest offical bios also.

Man, sorry about the loss.

That's pretty scary to think that one day I could turn on my system and "poof!" there goes my Opty.

[Pinnacle]

On the Expert
VCore=1,77v (maximum)
VDimm=3,6v (maximum and voltemetered)
RAM=Corsair BH5

Thats extreme, I can see why it died

[Hellion]

Its weird but i have better stability and overlocking with original bios EDB02.Second best was e704bta.Weird is that 12/7 crapped out didnt try the rest from Tmod boot cd.The known 623 from sli dr exists for expert or not?
I have heard that there is a danger using old bios for killing cpu or memory.I ve heard the last one is practically safe.Which one is that statement reffered to,704bta2 or EDC07