Unfortunately the Asus P9D-I board does not have four-sided sockets, but the old DIL socket... building my own circuits, I tend to add some epoxy-clue after mounting the DIL chip... Asus should have done the same, or use better sockets :(
the crappy one.. cheapest you can find... I doubt I will put my hands on an asus board again... Next I am going with might be a Supermicro... Eric just put oil to the fire telling me about the Xeon-D :)
I could well do without seeing them again. Definitely puts me off Asus boards. I thought nowadays BIOS chips were all soldered - who programs them in a separate machine?
I could well do without seeing them again. Definitely puts me off Asus boards. I thought nowadays BIOS chips were all soldered - who programs them in a separate machine?
No, many boards still come with socketed BIOS chips, mostly to reduce trouble after a failed BIOS flash (though I've never actually seen such a thing happening).
Some even include two socketed BIOS chips. Now that is paranoia!
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