Trouble is I don't quite trust the UD3P. DFI's build quality may not be up to quality standards set by other manufacturers, as there has been a few odd failures when really pushed hard, not that the tier 1 manufacturers are setting a very good example anyway. Add to that I don't really like any DDR2 X48 boards; there are a couple but each has negatives that make them not worth the expense IMO, the 2 X48's I really like, the Rampage Extreme and P5E3-Premium, are DDR3 and would require a ram upgrade, and the only DDR3 ram I want is double the price of the boards in question. I am between a rock and a hard place.
The things that make i7 not very practical right now, is decent DDR3 ram (2000MHz+ CL7 @ <1.65v) is ridiculously expensive (ordinary DDR3 is weak, if it clocks well it's barely any better than DDR2 at 600MHz CL5), and the board I like most (EVGA Classified) is not out yet, plus the platform/cpu's are so new it may be markedly improved by hardware updates. I want my i7 build to be a really good improvement, not mildly better than my current setup. I will definitely wait before upgrading platforms.
**All that said though, I'm tempted by the DFI UT P45-T2RS. It looks to be a pretty solid board, better than the M2F, and with a stronger PWM than the UD3P. I just wish DFI would get with the program and put a BIOS update feature in the BIOS, flashing with DOS is arcane. I also worry about BIOS updates.
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