I have this board, it's great. I bought it because of the heatpipe system and it's almost identical to the Platinum version with less a less exotic heatpipe system.

This is my second MSI motherboard. My other board is the Neo-4 939 Nforce 4. MSI has NAZI like moderators on their hard to find support forum.

I was accused of hijacking a post titled NEO-2FR bios. I asked how to flash to the newest bios using Vista 64-bit. I'm still running bios 1.1 and it works well. I got no answer on MSI's forum and my post was deleted.

I would have bought the gigabyte P35 version if they had the heatpipe system at a lower price. I have the Gigabyte GA-965 DS3 board and they have 14 or more bios updates and they encourage users to update their bios to newer versions regularly.

MSI moderators told me I should never update my bios unless my current bios. Using Windows XP makes bios upgrading easy on MSI.

Anyway, I love the board, MSI makes great motherboards but the MSI forum moderators are the worst and they have around 10,000 posts.

PCSTATS.COM tested the platinum version of this board and it holds the record for highest FSB overclock of any motherboard.

If you crank up the NB and the FSB voltage, you get much more performance at lower voltages on the GO Q6600. I'm running at 3.4Ghz at 1.30v