Quote Originally Posted by pest View Post
I wanted to buy a EP45-UD3P for Christmas, to replace my P35C-DS3R which tops out at about 480Mhz FSB with my E8400.
The only reason for this is the Board-Limitation of 1.3V MCH-Core

But seeing many having problems over 475Mhz with the UD3P makes myself overthinking the decision.

Deal or no deal?

regards
i never have P35C-DS3R but been running a dual-core both 65nm and 45nm at 500FSB+ on a couple of P35-DS4's rev,1.0 boards for quite some while (since the board's released) now, no problem. so as far as i can tell it appears that your problem about getting your CPU over 475MHz FSB with the Gigabyte P35 based board can be not because of the motherboard.

about Gigabyte P45 UD3x boards, i'm not just yet a real fan of any mothertboard's model or makers, but i just find it a bit irritating when hearing things like that, and i was going to ask you the same, where are you getting the idea that it's able to go to only 475 FSB (and not more), otherwise, there will be a problem with your overclocking?