I will have my P5K-D back from RMA next week so I will be able to do a small comparison. Initial results with the ASUS were promising but a SATA issue was bothering me so XPCGear is sending me a new board. I like the Abit very much so far. The only issues I have are the voltages are off as far as what is set in bios and what is actually measured. If I set 1.5vcore I get only 1.450 (amazingly enough uGuru sees 1.451) and the higher I go the larger the difference. Perhaps a bios update or mod of some sort can correct this. I also wish the P35 chipset would allow for unlinking of the memory or perhaps have dividers like the NForce4 as I would like to be able to run tighter timings without having to pump 2.3+ vdimm into these modules. I know DDR2 memory is cheap right now but I have several sets of Crucial memory I don't want to risk destroying to maintain the high FSB potential of these and future chipsets.Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue
holy crap!...wow...nice going on water....amazing!
So far the P35 Abit is a winner in my book. I have used many P965 , 680i, 650i, and RD600 boards and none of them are as easy to OC and none could reach 540FSB with little tweaking such as this board. I realize there are boards out there that can better these results but they are few and far between. This is a damned fine board and I am sure there will be improvements as bios updates are released but so far I have no complaints. Again, I won't push my board to extreme limits as some will so there may be some drawbacks for those that do. I have not tried RAID yet so that is the only aspect of this board I can't vouch for. Otherwise the board functions flawlessly (audio, NIC, USB, etc) at the 540FSBx6 and 475FSBx8. Once I do some orthos testing I am going to do the 500FSBx7 and see how that works out.
I need to upgrade me WC (that 43C is idle temp) so if anyone has a great pump for sale CHEAP LMK
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