Motherboards: which one i more stable to do 5Ghz

[k0k0]

Hi, I need to buy a motherboard to try 5Ghz, which is more stable to do overclock ???

ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional B3
ASRock P67 Extreme4 B3
Asus P8P67 B3
Asus P8P67 PRO B3
MSI P67A-GD65 B3
Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3 B3
Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4 B3

My config is a i7 2600K, G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 1600 PC3-12800 8GB 2x4GB CL9 and GTX 480 SOC and Gigabyte Odin 720W.

Thanks.

[Falkentyne]

Any of the boards you mentioned, besides the UD3, will be fine.
I think UD3 has too few power phases, and too few ports...

And NONE Of the boards will help you get 5 ghz if you get a dud CPU. Remember that.

[Leeghoofd]

+1 Falkentyne... hope you will get a good CPU... don't blame the board if you can't reach it... also make sure your cooling is adequate. Some Sandies are real hot es...

[radier]

Extreme4 is definitely capable to hit 5ghz effortless. Check my sig.

[k0k0]

I wanted to know which of these motherboards bios is more stable and better motherboard.
Also that depends entirely on the microprocessor more or less overclock, but I like to have the motherboard as possible.

For example, between the Asus P8P67, Pro or Fatal1ty, there are big differences or not? worth buying some or anyone would serve me ??

The MSI B3 bios is stable ??

[radier]

MSI P67 is crap. No mather B2 or B3. Their UEFI is poor. Many bugs, lack of important features like Offset Voltage.
Extreme4 with UEFI ver 1.61 is the most mature UEFI on market. Even Extreme6 and Fatal1ty don't have as bug free UEFI as Extreme4.

[Falkentyne]

Koko,
There are no clear differences between the boards other than features. I'm not going to write a chart explaining what each board has. You need to go read some reviews (there are even reviews on these forums) for those boards. Google is your friend.

You're being WAY too picky about boards. Find a board with the features you want, and just go buy it.

Case in point:
Simple comparison UD4 vs UD5 (which isn't in your list):
I chose UD5 because you simply have no idea how UTTERLY USEFUL an onboard CLEAR CMOS button by the ram slots are...completely out of the way of any cables...just gotta reach in and push it (never push such a thing with the power on, of course, then again you shouldn't be mucking around a motherboard that's powered on anyway). Sad thing that the B2 version of UD5 had broken LLC, and that MIGHT have contributed to my and C_N's cpu's both degrading (My low volt 2nd 2600k on UD5 B3 (4500@1.236v load, 5000@1.404v load) hasn't degraded yet) by about 0.05v.

Ok, I probably confused you with too much info...whatever, just stop thinking so much and go find a board that has the features you want !!!

Quality? They're all the same. But with MSI, some people love the board, some hate it. Make very sure you use latest beta bios, as I heard it improves things.

BIOS? Gigabyte doesn't have UEFI yet, but newest beta bios makes the board MUCH more stable, and I'm NOT kidding (instead of power on/off boot loops, the boards simply reset internally several times if needed, without losing BIOS settings, and if a FULL strap reset is needed, it just powers off once after you change a certain bios configuration).
Bluetooth? I don't even know what bluetooth is. Never owned a cell phone in my life (or any "I-device").
Overclocking? Who knows. Update to the latest bioses for whatever board you choose, and don't use too much level of loadline calibration, so your cpu's won't degrade so fast (High on Asus board, or LLC1 on GB UD5 or "Enabled" on UD4 is good enough).

Newest beta MSI Bios seems stable enough. Why don't you go read some threads on some forums about it? overclock.net has a big thread on the MSI board...(overclock.net is more mainstream than XS...lots of people on XS like to push systems to the limit with extreme cooling...)

Asrock extreme 4 has a very mature latest bios.

Gigabyte UD4 latest B3 beta bios (F3c? F3b? forgot which for ud4) is freaking GOOD.

[Khoral]

Find a board with the features you want, and just go buy it.

And as far as I can remember, MSI always had strong pros and cons. I can see that it didn't change xD

[Ket]

MSI P67 is crap. No mather B2 or B3. Their UEFI is poor. Many bugs, lack of important features like Offset Voltage.
Extreme4 with UEFI ver 1.61 is the most mature UEFI on market. Even Extreme6 and Fatal1ty don't have as bug free UEFI as Extreme4.

+1. Exactly what I was going to say