I have given up tjis ASUS K8V-X SE Mobo and put a MSI K8N NEO and i am working at that pc right now and it is fast and groovy he he wery nice but at the moment i am downloading my source from steam to check how it will work in Games.I am preety happy with it and i will not leave this guy alone who sell me that ASUS trash until he sent me some board for the died one.
I am lookingat cpu temp right now and it is 45°c and system temp is 43°c but after i was playing Counterstrike Source i seen a temp of cpu 51°c and system 45°c Is this a normal temp for a AMD 3700 S 754,at idle speed it is 42°c
Asus is pretty good, but they've had a few problems with early A8V boards, and you could've, unfortunately gotten one of them.
I've seen very few problems from Asus users, and considering they are the #1 company in terms of motherboard output, that's quite remarkable. The A8V did have problems, so they do have problems, but that's what you get when you deviate from specs.