Great review. I'm a through fan of xBit reviews. I also read [H]OCP reviews but lately they are getting lazy. They did a review only withh overclocking an older dual core cpu. I think it was the E6400. Wow, it overclocked wel??... So I'm pleased to see that xBit uses both dual cores and also the quad-cores to test overclocking.

One thing which I think is a shame and I never see it anywere, is testing more memory. Putting in the max memory in that the mobo can handle and then see how the memory and the cpu overclock handles. I think then we would see bigger differences between mobo's.

But of course I can be wrong and it is expensive I guess, putting in 8GB of high end RAM (especially DDR3), a nice hot Quad-Core etc...

It's just something I miss in all reviews on all sites, but because xBit still is my favorite, I thought I shared my thoughts.

Great review, so I voted excellent!

Greetings,

Kibosh

Excellent review, both overall and in the details. I found the newly reported results of your "accident" with the processor voltage particularly interesting--frankly, I'm a little surprised that 1.8V didn't do more damage than it actually did. This is the first account I've read of how 45nm chips handle significantly increased voltages, and it's certainly a valuable insight into where the unsafe range begins.

1.8V into an E8400 ouch, agree with MTX I would think instant disaster for sure.

People are reporting CPU degredation on their 45nm CPUs with even 1.6V 24/hr use.

Will this motherboard EVER come to market in the US?
Its mid April and its still a NO SHOW.

I saw the same thing with my E6600 @ 3.4 after running prime 95 for 3 days, no problems but when i rebooted it refused to work.

Que pedazo de placa, pero ya hay q dejar de poner cosas conun solo cpu.. media pila fabricantes...
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