I jumped on the new prices. I bought a X2 6000 and and an Asus crosshair board and some Corsair dominator DDR2 800 memory. This is my first Asus board,i was going between the Gigabtye GA-M59SLI board,the Abit fatality,and a DFI Lanparty.I heard Asus has a lot of bios problems,now i'll find out...
The Gigabyte wont do 300 HTT,i have one and only went to 270 before issues arose. MSI is good ,i have an MSI SLI Platinum and it goes to 300 HTT. DFI makes a good one also.
The Gigabyte board is an execellant board,but they just dont overclock much. DOUG
I'd hope a $400 box can't match a $1000+ rig.
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I would bet it wouldnt even come close.
I,m using the Nvidia raid controller with 2 raptor drives in raid 0,it is very fast and very stable. I havn't had any problems with the controller at all and it performs very well. I highly recomend it.