We, the hardware guru, and overclocking community. Owners of the Asus A8R-MVP motherboard, who, in response to raving reviews of this particular Motherboard, paid full retail price under the following influence:
1.) Chiefly, a review on Anandtech.com that stated the motherboard was AIMED at the Overclocking community.
2.) Advertisement on ASUS website for the A8R-MVP. Qoute:
" Precision Tweaker
Designed for serious overclockers
It offers ways to raise system performance inch-by-inch and step-by-step to achieve maximum performance! This is about getting the most out of your machine and taking pride in your customized computer.
* vDIMM - Take control of how much power is going into the memory modules. ASUS gives you 8-step voltage control to the DIMM
* vCore - Find out "exactly" how much power your CPU needs. Fine-tune it with 0.025 volts at a time!
* SFS - SFS (Stepless Frequency Selection) allows FSB tuning from 200MHz up to 400MHz at 1MHz increments.
"
found at
http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=236&model=787&modelmenu=1
The overclocking community in general who are signed below consider this to be false advertising and failure to market properly.
We ask the Asus Technologies, Inc. offer some sort of Rebate program for the overclocking community who are owners of the A8R-MVP to solicit our business, and retain us as customers. Many of us whom have loved Asus products for a substantial amount of time.