i have recently installed this board after tried many before lol, i hadthe p5w dh deluxe which did not o/c very well for me,lets say at default settings it would tell me overclocking had failed,time for that board to go,

i also had the p5n -e sli which was pretty much the same,only let you o/c the ram or the cpu,never let you do both,and there was limits on how far you go with the ram and also had the same problem with this ,when it came to boot it would keep telling me o/c failed even after i had system running fine for 3 days without switching it off,

so now i have took the plunge and gone for the p5b deluxe which seems more versatile than the other 2 and works well with corsair and cellshock ram and also lets me o/c some,i also bought 1 of those xeon 3070 which i thought would run cooler than the conroes and o/c better - well it runs idle at 46 which surprised me as i had an e4300 which run at 29 idle 37 under load so not sure if i have a good batch,lol,

i have noticed 1 thing with this board which lets it down,any guesses its the sound,shockily bad and software that comes with it is just as bad,it there a good driver for this,any help would be much appreciated and where's the best place to download the intel chipset drivers - asus site is very slow

also hit another small problem when i boot up it always says cpu error - i have to press f1 everytime.i almost forgot video benchies are down significantly,on nfs most wanted it looks drab on full settings - in cpuz it says pci - e is x16 on both.thats a mystery-

other than that i like the board as it does let you o/c and i have had some good results but the xeon is a bit toasty,lol,
any hints or tips in the right direction is much appreciated
kind regards
paul