Quote Originally Posted by chestnut View Post
Trying to decide between the Pro or Deluxe for my OC/gaming rig.

Wont use any of the additional features on the Deluxe, and will likely do crossfire later on.

It's $100aud diff between the two...so really, when does the 16phase help? I really wanna get a 2600K as close to 5ghz.

Will a Pro suffice?
Yes

But it really depends on the 2600K cpu you get from what I read on another forum where a Asus rep posted basically saying that -----> Expectations regarding K series overclocking in general and on ASUS P67 motherboardsPrior to the recommendations on overclocking the K series, I am outlining our results to set expectations.
The results below are based on the range of the CPU turbo multiplier when overclocking.
Results are representative of 100 D2 CPUs that were binned and tested for stability under load; these results will most likely represent retail CPUs.
1. Approximately 50% of CPUs can go up to 4.4~4.5 GHz
2. Approximately 40% of CPUs can go up to 4.6~4.7 GHz
3. Approximately 10% of CPUs can go up to 4.8~5 GHz (50+ multipliers are about 2% of this group)

Hope you are one of the 10% or 2% which finds that golden cpu..