Quote Originally Posted by uranium View Post
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
Middle slot sets itself and the bottom slot to 8x when it's populated, so you need to use the top or bottom slots for 16x. Also given some people's problems with D0 chips and this board you may want to reconsider (I have a C0 so can't comment) your board choice.