Quote Originally Posted by The Nemesis View Post
No I never tried the asus 680i chipset based boards. I did however try the 650i Asus board & it didn't acheive FSB over 450mhz. Only the Striker from what I read would suit my overclocking and after reading alot of problems with that & the other Nvidia Asus boards I stayed clear of it. Limited vcore upon intial release was a problem for me too. Comparitively, the Asus offerings are not faster or more stable than the evga 680i. The evga is very memory friendly & I kinda wish I had kept my particular board. Of all the boards I've overclocked since conroe came out, it was by far the easiest. It pushed my E6400 to 3.7ghz right out the box & all I did was set the cpu-vtt to 1.5v & cpu to 1.5v. No increase on the northbrige or southbridge voltages were necessary. Nor was any indept tweaking. Unfortunately @ that time the ps2 keyboard & mouse were unuasble when overclocking. After the P25 bios didn't solve the problem, & raid was still hit or miss I returned the board because my 30 days was coming up. If you don't like the price or availability of the DFI board, consider the evga. Supposedly most of the bugs are worked out and the new revision is quad core FSB friendly. I love my IN9 32-Max. It's as worth the $300 price tag, as much as the P5W DH was worth its $269.
Hahaha. you're making even ME want the IN9.

The plus board has been good to me. it's based off of the 650i NB but performs just as well as its bigger brother.

the vcore issue has been resolved on the plus board with the release of the 0602 bios. vcore over 1.65 works properly.

i haven't had too many problems with this board minus finding the strongest dividers that work with this board.

my board can do 500 mhz w/o breaking a sweat with a little tweaking and a replaced NB heatsink.

back on to the topic... any word yet on price (for the 5th time)