Quote Originally Posted by __Miguel_ View Post

..I'm already licking the P5E-VM HDMI from Asus, though. It seems very promising, and has all the right features...

You hit a wall at 328MHz FSB on an E4400 with that board? What kind of RAM did you use? I'm liking this board more and more by the minute...

Also, after reading the whole thread again, it seems the lowest strap available for 800MHz CPUs is the 200:333 (FSBDR). It is actually a chipset limitation, it seems the new 3x-series simply don't work with memory slower than 667MHz. That explains why 1:1 on 200MHz CPUs isn't available, and "2.66x" doesn't work all that well. Shame is that Gigabyte doesn't make more memory dividers available as soon as the new straps are reached (meaning 266:333 would become available when OCing a 800MHz CPU to 266MHz...), like Asus and other brands do...

Considering what I just said, OC'ing a 200MHz CPU to 266MHz would mean my Team Elite memory would only need to run at 900MHz MAX... I never tried it, but I think squeezing 100MHz more from 800MHz sticks shouldn't be all that hard, right?

Cheers.

Miguel
Yes, I have my eyes on the asus board as well...the vdroop is terrible on the Gigabyte boards...and Asus has really thrown in all goodies in bios you could wish, even the vdroop damper
2 things I don't like though, lack of that open 4x pci-e slot that gigabyte has (Crossfire on a mAtx is cool) and that 4 stories high usb rack that hinders my special cooling solution I got cooking..

As for your memory, they will almost certainly do 1000+ MHz on this board/chipset