Final decision on a stable MB? Which one atm?

[aL3k]

---- First of all, I want to apologize for the question which may have been asked many times already, but:

I have an issue with my motherboard (P5K PREM, works awful with WD drives). I have to change it in a couple of days, so I heard that they are expecting a new shipment of MAXIMUS FORMULA boards in my local shop tommorow. So I wonder if these are some new revision, which has less problems? I'm worrying, cause I read a few weeks\months ago, that people are having problems with DDR2 X38 boards, but I'm not sure, how is the situation at the moment.
So should I get one of these MAXIMUS FORMULAs or for example a X38-DQ6 instead, or maybe some more stable P35 board? What do you think?

I'll be using it with Q6600 and 2x1GB 1066Mhz first, later with 4 sticks of 1 GB, and I'm going to have RAID also. Some of the X38 boards had RAM issues, but I don't know whether they still have? Maybe new BIOS releases are better?


---- I'm searching for the best replacement of my board for these parts, price is not important?
Need some advice, please! :shrug: :)

[bito]

What issues are you having with your WD drives and the board ?
I have the same combo working fine here non raid.

[Yukon Trooper]

P35 will offer you the best stability/performance right now. I'd only go to X38 if you need DDR3.

[Supertim0r]

I also have the WD bug (Samsung also)

The computer go crazy when you plug a WD disk :(

It took me a while to find a good batch of seagate HDD but the 500GB Sata2 32MB are great and silent like the WD RE2 I'Ve never been able to use.

[Nokomis]

Im using an Asus P5E X38 board with a WD 320 and have no trouble what so ever. Before this I was using an Abit P35 Dark Raider board that overclocked well but had seem much less stable.

[JoeBar]

I'm using currently 2 boards, a Maximus (with a 74gb raptor plus 2 x320 WD drives) and an IP35 Pro (with a 250gb WD drive).

Never experienced a single prob with them.