I am considering getting this board (plus a waterblock on the northbridge heatpipe plate) since my GB Extreme suffers from abysmal VDroop (LLC on or not) and has BCLK limit of 215 whatever I do (I tested the CPU and RAM in an EVGA board and it went straight to 224 without a problem)- I think my 920 3845B260 could do better on a different board I see Eva 2000 has just got the identical batch... I don't think a Classified is worthwhile, since I am not going to use extreme cooling although I do have a chilled water set-up, see

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=230755

What do you guys think?

Also, probably a dumb question: I have a single ATI 5870 which is fine for my needs, so no crossfire- will it run at x16 in the middle, orange PCIe slot on the DFI. Would make routing my cooling easier
Thanks