ASUS P5WD2-E Premium x Gigabyte GA-G1975X?

[TrancëJay]

My neighbor bought my P5WD2 Premium :D

Now, which of these should I pick up?

Can buy any of them at ZipZoomFly:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=247059
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=242661

[Nasgul]

The ASUS. Stack N Cool 2, fanless.

The Gigabyte's tiny fans would probably make the board a bit noisy plus the position of the PCI slots (White ones) are too close the first PCI-Ex16 slot and they're in between the two.

My vote goes for the ASUS.

[TiTON]

Dang.. both board are already sold out :(

SAD

[sativaman84]

When did the asus 975 come out? I never heard anything about specific release date and now they're sold out = (

wonder if they're for sale anywhere else?

[Supertim0r]

p5wd2-e = 8 phases ?

[AndreYang]

p5wd2-e = 8 phases ?


P5WD2-E = 4 phases

P5WDG2-WS = 8 phases

[afireinside]

So theres no reason to buy the E? The thing that I don't like is all the caps around the socket on the WS... Not good at -190C.

[speed bump]

Buy the E it is the 975 board the non E is the 955 chipset loaded board.

[vapb400]

is P5WDG2-WS for sale yet?

what do you guys think of the new Intel board D975XBX
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d975xbx/

Keep in mind Intel had an 865 board that could do 300FSB. It may be an awesome board for utmost stability if nothing else.

[sin0822]

intel boards oc?

[vapb400]

the new one is supposed to overclock well. They've had a few enthusiast editions that do.

Legit Reviews used it in their Presler review.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/278/4/
It does say something about 30% FSB though, so I hope that wouldn't be the limit.

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98282
http://forums.legitreviews.com/about3550.html&sid=07051598cb77ec8eb73efe4fa1c1e444

the board looks awesome too.

*edit* looks like 1333 FSB can be forced too.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28412