Asus P5W DH or MSI 975X for Conroe?

[EsaT]

Asus P5W DH Deluxe and MSI 975X Platinum PowerUp Edition seem to be only Conroe compatible motherboards with features I need (two IDEs/PATAs), unless Conroe compatible revision of Asus P5WD2-E Premium becomes available in few days.

Looks like both of these have their own "childhood" BIOS problems now so has anyone tried these both?
Which one seems to work generally better?
Amount of overclocking would be that which can be achieved without major voltage increases.

As one thing MSI has traditional storage connector positioning while Asus has dropped second IDE/PATA to bottom under PCI slots. While that place is untraditional it isn't any problem. In CM Stacker case there's 10cm between case bottom and motherboard so one cable more in there doesn't block acces to mobo... in fact I think it could be advantage for cooling, multiple connectors/cables in front of memory slots in MSI would surely lower airflow to memories compared to Asus. (I'm getting crossflow fan for case)

BTW, manual of Asus doesn't state can "EZ RAID" connectors work as normal SATA connectors so does anyone know how it is?
Positioning of SATA port provided by JMicron controller kinda sucks and three SATA ports is definitely too little for future. (I have two SATA HDs)

[5-Clicks]

As of right now, I recommend the P5W DH over the MSI. The MSI might (and hopefully will) get better with time, but there are no guarantees.

[alternaria]

They both have issues

[Anemone]

Neither one is fully "baked" but the Asus is closer...

[hot_fifty]

my asus has np... runnig 376FSB 24/7

[mdzcpa]

Well, I hate to say this, but I niether mobo is a very good option.

I swapped this weekend from my "boring" Bad Axe to the Asus P5W DH....what a mistake! I thought overclocking would be easier...not. I also have 5 HD (2 RAID 0 arrays, and 1 single sata drive). What a complete pain in the azz to set up! Its finicky mobo that runs fine at certain settings, then runs unstable the next reboot at the same settings...man I hate that. All this on top of having to flash the BIOS to get it to post with my X6800:slapass:

I was going to try the MSI 975 board, but the threads around here simply scare me too much. That board sounds pretty poor (although I admit I haven't tried it myself).

Bottom line, back to my Bad Axe...which I am now more happy than ever with:) I know that's not an answer for you, but you need to know that the current state of mobo choices is not good.

[Dynasty]

dfi inifinity 975x is an nice choice to consider...
But, yeah after few weeks of Asus P5W-DH
I to ended back on my rev.304 bad axe...

Only thing about the bad axe is the pci-e slots to occupy
for sli or cf operation are just to close. :(

[aggybong]

How difficult is it to overclock with BadAxe boards? Are there any hard mods required, or are there a good number of options already present in the BIOS?