Quote Originally Posted by gFiz View Post
since the majority of posts you see on forums like this are about issue with hardware, let me just say I have a UD5, that I keep clocked at 3.6ghz (i haven't even tried more, satisfied for now on a 1ghz overclock that is 100% stable, 20x180). I had all these other bios's downloaded and ready to go, but decided to stick with F3 at first (what it shipped with), and have had no issues. No bluescreens, lockups, restarts, coldboot issues, or S3 hibernate issues. Very happy with this motherboard.

(though I will say to be fair, this is my second one. First worked fine as well, but for some reason the bios wasn't seeing 6gb of mem, though windows was...weird. Even though it didn't seem to cause any issues, i didn't want a $300 defective mobo, even if it was just cosmetic. This second one though I have absolutely no issues.)
thanks for this.. I was starting to get depressed reading about nothing but issues with this or that.. ugh! but that's how these threads tend to go, you hear more about the frustrations than the successes.

At any rate, for your memory issue with the other board, I hear that can be caused by a bent pin in the cpu socket area.. or at least, some other people have said they found a pin which was slighty askew and after straightening it out, viola! all 3 or 6gb would show up..

I am going to get my board turned on for the first time tonight.. If the shipped with bios is F3 or higher I will stick with that unless I can't get something stable... I am looking for 3.6ghz or maybe 3.8 for a 24/7 config which I need to be super stable for MMO gaming.. crashes = deaths which is so annoying. anyways.. wish me luck.