Originally Posted by {core2duo}werd  i got a bad p6t deluxe, i would say the best is probably the new x58 classified board from evga, or the foxconn blood rage. |
Originally Posted by jrharvey Whats wrong with it? BTW I would go EVGA. Asus support SUCKS. My first P6T was bad so I had to RMA. It took almost a whole month to get my new board. You can call and call and be on hold for hours and never get anyone. I even had someone hang up on my. I wasnt even rude. EVGA support is way better. The ASUS board RULES but the company behind it is just not what it use to be. |
Originally Posted by {core2duo}werd it just doesn't overclock very well. i max out at 180 bclk regardless of my multi. |
Originally Posted by jrharvey Wow that sucks. Are you sure you just dont need to go higher. I cannot get mine stable at all from 190-200 but I am perfectly stable at 201-220. Both the baords I had would hit a 220 Bclock and be Prime 95 stable. |
Originally Posted by Lazman1 look at the gigabyte ex58 UD5 its also a great board |
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Originally Posted by ricsim78 IMO the eVGA Classified is overrated and too expensive for what it does. Speed tests have shown it can get matched easily and even beaten by the midrange ($300.00) boards. Nice board, but if I was going to spend nearly $500.00 on a motherboard, it better be heads and tails above anything cheaper and sadly the Classified is not! It doesn't even come with an external sound card, with that price it should. I like the Asus Rampage II Extreme and P6T6 WS Revolution. They both will do anything the Classified does but cheaper, maybe not overclock quite as high but without extreme cooling you cannot reach those overclocks anyhow. You are going to get nothing but biased opinions, even from me. I always have liked Asus and this is yet another board that has been amazing, so you bet I will recommend them in a heartbeat. Funny, my P6T Deluxe has no problem going up to 211 BCLK and I currently have it running at 4.02 Ghz without a sweat. If you cannot overclock well, you either have wrong settings, cooling issues, or RAM is holding you back. |
Originally Posted by TheMan47 I fully agree. I did a lot of research before buying my board, and everything pointed to ASUS. If you have the funds, check out the Rampage 2. The ability to overclock in the bios while you are in Windows is so helpful, especially when you are just overclocking one item at a time (to check for temps, max frequency, etc without having to reboot constantly). Plus, if you're a novice, the board is set up to do all the work for you (if you want). On a whim, I set it to clock everything to my ram speed (1600mhz), and, just like that, I was running a stable 4ghz overclock for 48hrs of Prime95 (with temps never touching 75c). The P6T is basically the same board with a different bios and no Extreme OC controls and LCD poster. They are nice, but are they worth $200? Thats up to you. |
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