P45 board, which gets your pick?

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Originally Posted by railmeat

biostar i45 is thee best trouble free highest o\c fsb world record STABLE mobo out for under $150 (724 fsb).it also runs ram AMAZING.

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Seems like a good board, I'm a fan of biostar even corrected some typos on their website for them lol. But 724 isn't exactly going to happen unless I throw water or LN2 on my chip really. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...d,2001-53.html Kinda shows it's average I think for normal users.

Asus's 16phase and 8phase is it more of just a marketing scheme than anything? I mean MSI has something like 6phase and I think Biostar does too and they seem to do just fine. Maybe someone can elaborate. Granted 16phase just seems kinda massive compared to it's competitors with like 6 and such.

really mostly concerned about vdroop.
ive heard p5q-pro's loadline calibration compensates for vdroop, from a couple diffrent sources, one a review and other in a forum...
http://www.overclock.net/intel-mothe...y-e8400-2.html

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Yep, the P5Q Pro has that feature and it's called Loadline Calibration in the BIOS. When enabled it eliminates vdroop and actually adds a little voltage when at load (.008v for me):

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http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/im...rge/p5q_75.jpg
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...review-14.html

Are the 16 phase boards the only ones to do this? Seems like all it does is boost you voltage to what it should be? Is this more of a BIOS setting? I'm not bashing it I'm just trying to understand it

Except a lot of folks recommend not using LLC with the 45nm CPU's. Not sure of the exact reasons, but I think that there is a fear of it overvolting the CPU and that the 45nm's are more suseptible to it than the older 65nm. Just a heads up.

Utnorris

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but I think that there is a fear of it overvolting the CPU and that the 45nm's are more suseptible to it than the older 65nm. Just a heads up.

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yeah, but what is too much voltage for 45nm?...and i would have thought that having less vdroop would actually help to stabilise an oc at a lower vcore ? :hehe:
65/45nm wotever.
45nm requires less v's than 65nm.

i peezume that more volt regulation may help with quad overclocking, more tweaking / fine tuning options on expensivier boards too probably.

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Originally Posted by Glow9

eh? Ultra-D and company was awesome in 939 days what happened to yours?

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sorry for late reply, school is running me ragged. my nf4 sli-dr ultra? (forgot the excact model name wasnt the venus though) had a bad habit of sending massive volts to my ram and cpu, so magically one day turned it on and there goes g.skill ddr500 (though they rmaed it nice and fine, props to G Skill) and an opty 170

as for LLC i use it on my p5q-e and it hasn't caused any issues for me witha 9450, though i've been reading people with e8*00 have been keeping it off for some difficulties/crashes if you want to look throught he p5q threads you can learn why (sorry i haven't paid much attention as its usually llc + dual core)

as for volts on a 45nm well i wouldn't go past 1.4 on my quad but i've got liquid (and am only at 1.25 right now)

The Biostar boards and the P5Q-Deluxe's seem to be the hottest thing right now.