Fry's Electronics not selling the Crosshair V Formula

[jewie27]

I emailed them today and Fry's says they have no plans to carry the Crosshair V Formula. QQ I know I can buy it online somewhere else but I've always liked going to a store and picking up my hardware the same day.

[jewie27]

:( QQQQQQQ

[jewie27]

http://www.frys.com/product/6755545?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Thunderbolt edition is also available for $329

[chrsplmr]

Cool, and you have one near you...jewie is smiling.hehe
I am not a Fry's fan...
I am more of a "The Customer is Always Right, Give the Customer what they want" NewEgg kinda guy.
But if there were a Fry's next to me, I may have a different attitude...enjoy.

[Warmonkey09]

They arent carrying them because the board is trash. I got mine last week - still to this day having problem trying to boot etc. Ive had it working for the past 2 days with no issues besides my internal clock counting in 6s instead of 1s which makes the time go super fast. Today however I find that I cant get passed the bios since it says they have been reset and when I reconfigure them, restart, it says I have to go to bios again.

THe board is garbage - ASUS will say its because it was made for Bulldozer which is AM4 not AM3. SO for them to ****in say AM3+ is complete bull****.

[jewie27]

i shop at both places but prefer to go to a retail store and pickup things right away anytime. They also will match any online prices too.

[speed]

I wish folks would stop trashing this Board it runs great for me. I wish I knew how many boards sold compaired to the 30 or 40 people here having trouble. And in some cases I am sure it is the nut behind the wheel.

[Kipper]

I wish folks would stop trashing this Board it runs great for me. I wish I knew how many boards sold compaired to the 30 or 40 people here having trouble. And in some cases I am sure it is the nut behind the wheel.


I hear ya speed

I really tortured the board while writing my review I posted here without any problems using several sets of RAM, SSDs both SATA II and III GTX560 Ti in SLI, GTX 570 and GTX 580 along with the MATRIX 580, I tried to create the errors reported here and the board just keeps performing.

I have to believe that the majority of the problems reported are user induced and we cant forget that you will seldom ever hear from the folks that never have a problem but when there is a problem you will never hear the end of it.

OK, now that I have had my say, I am sure there will be some major flaming to come. LOL

[Jaytheredneck1]

Yeah you're never going to hear people complaining "Oh man, I can't believe this, I just built my system and it runs great, what a drag". People need to learn to admit when their favorite company screws up though. And for most people the biggest problem is the marketing. Alot of people are buying the product because it's supposed to do something, and then it can't do it until a not-yet-existent part is attached to it.

Can I sell my truck to a guy and tell him it's good for 300+ horsepower, and then after he buys it and complains say "Oh right, by the way, it can only handle 200hp until you get that new engine that isn't out yet." Think I might get the snot beat out of me? Or will the guy say "okay, that's obviously my fault sorry to bother you."

[Kipper]

Very good point and well taken Jay

Every company, or most of them anyways, are constantly providing update to firmwares, BIOS, programs that supplement the equipment and not to mention all of the driver updates from all so I doubt if any board has ever been published that was 100% stable with every possible component that's available for them. Just way to many variables for that to ever happen.

I can assure you that I at least have never been shy about letting ASUS know when they have sent me a product to review has a problem. Maybe its the way the problem is presented such as a complete information base of what you have done, components used, screen shots, logs, and present the evidence not in an angry, frustrated and WTF is ASUS going to do about this manner.

I have reviewed virtually every optical drive that ASUS has put out for the past 5 years or so and ASUS has taken my feedback on problems with write strategies for several media types and shortly thereafter has released new firmware to correct the errors.

[chrsplmr]

Spewing hate speak..cant resolve any issue...
Ask..get help..
This is a hard core ROG board...not a plug and play
bloatware retail box...
Quick to say what it isnt...when there is no
denying what it is isnt....a BD board with a BD.
And a whole bunch of us are do'n fine..like pointed
out above..........geesh.

Banned....ut oh...now he will never get that board
to run........all alone.

[speed]

I see he dropped a F bomb while bashing Asus. So I would think that is what got him booted. This board was put to retail with Asus thinking BD would be out very soon. Well AMD is the problem here not Asus or the CHV. It is a great board and my 1090T runs like a scalded dog. I had a few bugs to work out, but there were my bugs not the boards. As said above this aint no M3A78-T. This is a Fine tuned race horse chompin' at the bit to get it's rider(BD) to the finish line first enthusiast level MB. I understand that there are some boards the need RMA'd. That is to be expected. I also understand people can get upset, but bashing a company and the board as garbage and junk and dropping F bombs is out of line. JMHO

[chrsplmr]

Well stated and agreed.
As some of the others have said also.
The majority, that never had an issue..we never heard from.
Its not like Asus only sold 100 of these boards...buts thats
the echos the haters are ranting on....
Id put my rig against any other am3+ competitor rig..
(of course, someone with the same tech level...to be 'fair' and junk...hehehe)

What kind of gamer are they, so ready to throw their hands in the air,
the challenge of the tweak..makes the game extra sweet..to me.

Get out your money, somebody will build you one that will play with
itself.......ok..by itself.

[TechJackass88]

Speed, I agree with you. As well, I had few bugs of my own, because I didn't researched it all well, got ram that doesn't really like my board and chip, but folks here pulled me out of trouble waters in no time.
and bot to brag about it, actually who am I kidding, ofcourse bragging, I OC'd my chip up to 4 GHz and currently running it on lower than spec voltages, I'm not going to go to Intel side, because their Sandy Bridge systems apparently OC to 5 GHz on air,
but what fun in that? anyway, my 2 cents, I LOVE MY CHV, amazing system when it works (only saying that because it needs some configuration and tuning before flight, like a F1 race car.)

[speed]

It is just like a racecare. You just don't drop a motor in a chassis and think your going to run 240+ mph. You have to tweak and tune and test to get the power out of it you want. Pure and simple. This is not plug and play board. If it was I would not have bought it. I want the next level and to get there you have to pay the piper. I should start a thread for those who love their CHV. ;)

[lightning363]

I wish folks would stop trashing this Board it runs great for me..


I just built my system and it runs great, what a drag".



are you guys using the 990fx or 890fx?

[Area 66]

I, I tried to create the errors reported here and the board just keeps performing.

Mine was working fine, until I shut it down, move location, when I plug it back the fan start to work without even I press the power button. I remove the CPU , reset the BIOS, still the same problem. Even with the CPU and RAM remove all the fans was working, not normal. so it was rally dead.

[speed]

990fx

[lightning363]

990fx

we have some kinda same set up. no wonder ours both working stable.

[EVIL_CONSERVATIVE]

They arent carrying them because the board is trash. I got mine last week - still to this day having problem trying to boot etc. Ive had it working for the past 2 days with no issues besides my internal clock counting in 6s instead of 1s which makes the time go super fast. Today however I find that I cant get passed the bios since it says they have been reset and when I reconfigure them, restart, it says I have to go to bios again.

THe board is garbage - ASUS will say its because it was made for Bulldozer which is AM4 not AM3. SO for them to ****in say AM3+ is complete bull****.

Dude, I said the same thing a couple weeks ago .. You need to read "my appologies" post near the top of the thread. I agree it takes some percervierence to get it working (3 weeks for me) but now thats its up and running I have not one bad thing to say about it ... IT IS AWESOME !

[EVIL_CONSERVATIVE]

Mine was working fine, until I shut it down, move location, when I plug it back the fan start to work without even I press the power button. I remove the CPU , reset the BIOS, still the same problem. Even with the CPU and RAM remove all the fans was working, not normal. so it was rally dead.

Marked, That really sounds like a Power Supply problem ( not computer but actual electric).. I'm old and usually drunk, but does Canada run 3Phase household electric supply ? I cant remember aint been there in a while.
I have had instances where I moved servers or P.C.'s in 3 Phase commercial buildings and have had computer power supplies go haywire on me Due to the 120V receptical being on a different 3PH leg. thus the sine wave is out of phase of what the P.S. was originally initialized on.. It is a fluke but does occasionally confuse and occasionally ruin the electronic internal switching in the puter power supply.
I have started shorting the Hot to nuetral pins on the supplies (while POWERED OFF and UNPLUGGED !) when moving electronic equipment in 3PH adapted buildings. In theory It will discharge a few of the initial capacitors in the power supply. (my theory take it for what its worth ..LOL) but I have never seen this problem again.

EVIL

[chrsplmr]

I try and tell everybody, have a little patience, this board is going to amaze you, it is awesome
from one end to the other, does anyone listen? nooooooooo...They just have to find out for themselves..hahahhahahhaha

And still we have no BullDozer, yet..we can only imagine..(well, and hope, that BD's not a dud)

[Area 66]

Evil , you may have been right , a faulty PSU can do this but I'm not a noob, I try another PSU, I have plenty of them in my shop, aside the same PSU was use to make my Gene Review ... and we don't have 3 phases in houses only in Commercial and industrial building. Ouu Electric system is the same, 550 volts 3 phases in industrial building, 240 and 120 in house and small business all 60 hz . We even sell electricity in US

it's my first Asus board I RMA , it's just happen to fall on this one, so over 1000's boards the first one I RMA, not bad at all.

[EVIL_CONSERVATIVE]

LOL, I have never made a purchase from FRY's .. Every Time I see it mentioned It reminds me of a local Electroncs Shop (Fry's Electronics) whereat the 90 yr. old man still has in stock 1979 Zenith Console televisions and still wants top dollar for em' .. If any one needs the hard to find Vacuum tube or or parts for a 1953 toaster oven, chances are he will have it ! ..