Quote Originally Posted by JimmySVT View Post
C-N i'm pretty new to this board and have a few questions, and you seem to be the go to guy for DFI boards, i'm currently looking a building a new rig mainly for gaming. I am wondering if you think the p45-t2rs plus or the p45 ut will be able to run a e8500 cpu at 500 fsb 24/7 at around 4200 mhz, also do which board do you think would be better for gaming and such, i've also looked at the gigabyte ud3p but don't know if i can put that much faith in a board that costs that little to last very long at those speeds
Jimmy I think its fair to say I have a slight sweet spot for DFI boards

IMO both the Plus & the UT make 500fsb easy & should have no problem maintaining the speed with a dual core. I can’t comment on the Giga as I've not had one recently but the DFI is a quality board & runs very decent clocks on super low voltages & for that it gets my thumbs up.

One last thing that I feel I should point out is there really isn’t a very large boost in bandwidth when you drop the multi & pump the fsb up anymore. I used to love fsb but to be honest you can near as dam it reclaim any performance you may have lost by staying on the native CPU multiplier & tweaking the memory out a bit more.

I guess what I'm trying to say is the boards are so flexible you can near as dam do what you like either run high fsb on a low memory divider or run low fsb on a high memory divider the outcome will be very similar which should cater for just about every hardware combination.