Just thought I'd provide my initial experience with the board so far. I've had it for a couple weeks now with a very mild overclock, just upped my multiplier by one on my QX9650 to obtain 3.3 ghz. (My specs are in my sig.)
To install on RAID properly with Vista64 SP1 I had to use the latest Intel Matrix drivers on disk at install time. Otherwise I got some real funky corruption: Shortcut's missing, incorrect icons for many shortcuts and a bunch of issues showing up in the event viewer. If you want to use Intel's RAID I strongly recommend grabbing the latest Matrix drivers and load them at install.
This is actually a much improved experience over my previous board: DFI's LanParty UT P35. I could not install using RAID or AHCI with any bios newer then 11/07. (Many folks do not have this problem, but I'm not alone with it either.)
With the mild overclock the board has been rock solid though the Vista64 boot time is signifcantly slower then with my P35. However, once booted it runs benches a teency bit faster: Disk, Memory and CPU. This is normal for DFI boards which seem to always require a bit of tweaking even at stock.
I'd have to say I'm really pleased with the board so far and I'll try to contribute more information once I start tweaking. I'm not an Xtreme type though and with 8 gigs of ram I'm going to be limited in any overclocking anyway.
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