Its alot of reading, but that is because the DFI is alot of motherboard. I have had it since it was first released and loving every minute of it. I have a C2D 6750 running at 8x500 fsb for a sweet 4 ghz on water at DDR2 1000 4-4-4-10 timing, man is it sweet.

There are sooooo many bios tweaks to get better performance, or stability at high overclock - its definitely not for beginners... worth every penny of the $300 I spent.

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It makes sense that article takes a different approach, customers of this board or tweakers in general, will really appreciate the fine details.

Personally, in the last ten years I have gotten to a place where I am very comfortable not pushing for the last 100 - 300 mhz. The meager tangible return is not worth all the extra voltage or potential stability issues that often come up later in the life of the HW due to creep, dust, aging paste, etc. I get a nice stress test capable OC, then back it up a notch. I won't win any 3dmark awards that way though but am very satisfied with stability when a new product stresses HW in ways not stressed before.

One thing for sure with this board, I wouldn't want to lose the CMOS, then have to remember all my settings after a year.

Nice board and good article, $300 is too much though for a MB for me. It's definitely elite.

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Although all of the tweaking options provided are nice, it literally does no better than Asus P5K Deluxe or the Gigabyte P35-DQ6.

Furthermore with X38 boards on the way, im not seeing a whole lot of incentive for this $300 motherboard.

Just my $.02

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You need to remember that this board was compared at stock settings, not OC'ed, things change up top...;), not to mention we could not get the board to crash..

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Raja







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Its the same chipset, its not going magically increase in a non-linear fashion.

The P5K and DQ6 hit the same maximum overclock.

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This board has hit 672mhz FSB, far FAR higher than any other other board ever, including early samples of X38. Not likely to be matched until the DFI X38 comes out.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=152099

This link shows it at 666mhz, I cant find the 672mhz one at the moment, but its on the same forum, by the same guy with the same golden CPU.

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Not usable 24/7

WHO CARES!?

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Well, it still goes alot higher than the others you mentioned, it is absolutely the best overclocking motherboard available. - that was what I responded too, obviously its not the one for you.



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That is from the DFI labs... with a beta board... on supercooling...and volt mods... on a dual core CPU that doesnt stress the PWMs...

Anandtechs results even using phase dont approach those results.

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No, that is not from DFI labs, that is an independant dood, and CPU's that hit that high FSB are pretty rare.

Whatever man, you can poo poo it all you want. It is the best OC mobo out there, and goes higher and takes it farther than any other. It may not be the one for you though.

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