Yeah, basically the GB 965 has cold boot issues. I've found that the board will boot fine at about 360FSB then using ET5 you crank it up in Windows. Alternatively, you can let the board reset its self, then load the bios and change your settings to something higher like 400+ FSB. Nine times out of ten the board will boot fine from the BIOS since it's not "cold" anymore. That seems to be an "ok" work around but still, if you use a RAID setup you could risk corrupting the set. All those reboots are not RAID friendly and my containers would eventually corrupt. So that's the reason I chose to boot at ~360 and turn it up to 437 using easy tune 5 in winXP.
Problem is I don't use Windows anymore so my gigabyte 965P-DQ6 is eventually going to be an expensive HTPC. I hear the DFI P35 has a boot up speed setting in the BIOS. I'm looking forward to testing that out since I'm sick and tired of the cold boot issue. Also, the BLOOD IRON board is really cheap and should offer slightly better performance than the GB 965 board. Oh yeah and no cold boot issues I hope.
Hope this info helps!
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