ECS: RD480 in the Extreme

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• Gary Key - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

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  You might want to fix the word mothergoard in the title to be motherboard..

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  This item was changed along with the sound reference to Abit that two of us missed a few times at 3:40 this morning. Sorry about the issues! :)
  
  We do have another bios to test today, so far it has fixed the Firewire and Marvel Ethernet throughput issues. Time to test stability and overclocking.

• ashishkochaar - Sunday, September 24, 2017 - link

  I had tried doing so with the same software but I was unable to get access for
  <a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/1983">Anand... Services.

• Ryan Norton - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

  Seriously, I love AT and their reviews are consistently great, but I bought into the A8R-MVP hype and was completely let down. I don't OC my ass off so my disappointment isn't quite the same as someone who wants to run a 3000+ at 325 HTT at 2.8GHz blah blah but still. Not saying AT is at fault, ASUS mostly is: just that no amount of praise can overcome the perception of RD480 boards in the PC enthusiast world now. ESPECIALLY praise for OCability =^)

• bob661 - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

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  but I bought into the A8R-MVP hype

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  I heard that there are some pretty pissed off owners of this board out there. ATI is new to the chipset game and they'll need some time to mature like every other manufacturer out there.

• Ryan Norton - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

  Yeah, and like I said, I'm not one of them, since I really don't OC much. I was more excited about the layout and passive chipset cooling, which HAS lent itself to a very quiet PC in my Antec P180. Still (and I've got little evidence to back this statement up) the indelible sense of disappointment has crept into my overall appraisal of the board. I replaced an MSI Neo4 Platinum with it and would probably go back to that board were I able to replace its chipset fan (a real leafblower sound-alike) with a passive solution, but my 7800GTX hangs right over that area. The BIOS is very counterintuitively laid out, and not being able to choose which PCIe x16 slot the video card sits in is also annoying.
  
  You should go read the A8R-MVP section of the Asus website forums (finding them is a PITA since there are few static links available over thre) and read the bitching. I think most of the AT forumgoers' collective experiences with the board ended up here:
  http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid...">http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...amp;thre...

• bob661 - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

  Thanks for the link.

• seanp789 - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

  The final words page has a link at the bottom to ethernet performance. a page 14 that does not appear to exist.

• JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

  The article was modified from being 16 pages originally to being 13 pages -- no content was changed, but the layout was modified. You probably just saw the article in a transitory state. Sorry.

• Patrese - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

  Great review, it seems that the manufacturers are using Anandtech as beta testers for BIOS... :) Is it really too hard to release a mobo with a properly working BIOS? It seems to be happening everytime...
  BTW, this board is too purple to be an Abit, as stated on the last page: "In the on-board audio area, the Abit board offers"

• Visual - Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - link

  WTF is a video shunt card?