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There's really no difference as most people who decide to overclock won't use the DES feature anyways. PLUS, I believe Gigabyte has made the DES feature a free download for its boards. Personally, I went with the EP35C-DS3R. The C means it can take DDR2 or DDR3 memory. Not sure I need the...

Good point. I guess I'm just gonna stick with the numbers that agree and hope I don't melt my computer. If our numbers are the same or very similar, I'm guessing they're close enough to accurate to work with. Either way, I can live with 65*C on full load and 30-40 idle. If those readings...

I'm convinced it's NOT a problem with the chip and instead with reporting software like Core Temp or your mobo BIOS. You'll see here: That CPUID Hardware Monitor (under temperatures, not cores), SpeedFan and Gigabyte's EasyTune5 Pro all report the exact same temps for my E8400 OCd to 3.6ghz...

I got mine the week of launch from Newegg for $220 with free shipping. Note that the price has now jumped to $245. Sucks. Wait a month and the prices should drop to $200 if the hardware shortage situation improves.

My E8400 posted fine on my GA-EP35C-DS3R out of the box with G.Skill DDR2-800 RAM. Also easily flashed the bios to f2m with the swell update bios feature through a USB flash drive. So far so good. Now just waiting for the HDD and OS to arrive for full testing.

I'll take one! I'm building my first computer. This would be the cherry on top!