Quote Originally Posted by jagt View Post
Except for the PCIe 2.0 support, are there any other obvious benefits of going from P35 to P45? I've been having all sorts of issues lately, so I'm considering getting a new board soon.
If you're into gaming, the PCIe v2.0 is a pretty decent reason to move to a P45 board. High-end GPUs (9800GX2, GTX 2x0, HD4870 X2, etc) are flooding the PCIe v1.1 x16 bus, so we're actually needing the extra bandwidth provided by PCIe v2.0.

Aside from that, P45's should clock better, produce less heat, use less energy, and have better memory controllers.

Eller