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Which 975X Board?

Which 975X Board

  • Wait for Asus P5W DH to come back in stock

    Votes: 23 47.9%

  • DFI 975X/G

    Votes: 6 12.5%

  • MSI 975X Powerup Edition

    Votes: 7 14.6%

  • Other (specify)

    Votes: 12 25.0%
  • Total voters
    48
kirbyrj

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Ok, I'm looking at getting a 975X board instead of a 965P. I just don't like dealing with a 3rd party IDE that kept blue screening on me when installing Windows, nor do I particularly like using that Rosewill IDE->SATA bridge for my DVD drives.

So out of these, which one would you get?

Edit: I should note that I have an Abit AB9 Pro sitting right here as we speak :).
 
I can tell you from personal experiance that the MSI is PLAUGED with a lot of early problems. i would stay away for the time being

I would go with the bad axe
 
shady06 said:
I can tell you from personal experiance that the MSI is PLAUGED with a lot of early problems. i would stay away for the time being

I would go with the bad axe
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My only concern with the Bad Axe right now is the fact that Anand said that it OC's well, but only with hardware mod's. I don't feel like ripping out the soldering iron right now on a $250 board :(.
 
in that case, i would just wait for the P5W. OR if you can hold out a little longer, the 570/590 nvidia boards are right around the corner
 
I chose "OTHER" for the reason of i'm waiting for the 590SLI boards to start showing up.
 
I'm not budging until I have both the Asus 590 and a FINAL working P5WDH to compare. The P5WDH has gone through 10 Bios revisions in 3-4 weeks. WHEN it's "done" it will probably be my top pick for 975's but I'm not going 975 until I've seen the 590. I don't expect the 590 to be stunningly better than the NF4, except in one particular area, stability under oc. 590 is a refinement rather than a purely new product, so I'm curious if they got it to work "right" and "right" at extremes basically.

Testing will show, but right now the two top picks are neither ready for primetime, imo.

Even the Core processors are undergoing subtle refinements. Patience is your very BEST ally right now. Sit back and read. Open the checkbook when the smoke clears :)

$.02

PS: everyone said the Badaxe was better than sliced bread. Read around now and it's like yesterday's lunch left on the counter. So watch and read and be patient.
 
What about the Foxconn 975X7AB? Digital PWM, Solid BIOS, Cheaper then otrher 975X motherboards.
 
Fox is an option, just as of right now it is an untested option. And their record on enthusiast boards is a bit on the shy side...
 
Foxconn price is right and I like the active NB cooling and the lack of seemingly ubiquitous crappy heatpipes. Wish someone would review it already, bunch of guys have ordered one on various boards but no evals yet. I like all that space around the CPU mount too.

But to answer to OP's question, yes, get the p5w-dh. If you can wait for RD600 or 590 that's great, it's ALWAYS better to wait. But if you wait, you don't get that instant gratification.
 
ViolentPacification said:
I ordered the fox, everything should be here wednesday... I'll let everyone know how it is
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Yeah, I'd definitely be interested in seeing how it does.
 
kirbyrj said:
Yeah, I'd definitely be interested in seeing how it does.
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Sure the Fox won't overclock like the Asus will, but it still seems like a solid board. I too am interested in how it performs.
 
Does anyone use the DFI board? I've only seen Coolater over at XS, but other than that, I don't hear much about it.
 
Anemone said:
I'm not budging until I have both the Asus 590 and a FINAL working P5WDH to compare. The P5WDH has gone through 10 Bios revisions in 3-4 weeks. WHEN it's "done" it will probably be my top pick for 975's but I'm not going 975 until I've seen the 590. I don't expect the 590 to be stunningly better than the NF4, except in one particular area, stability under oc. 590 is a refinement rather than a purely new product, so I'm curious if they got it to work "right" and "right" at extremes basically.

Testing will show, but right now the two top picks are neither ready for primetime, imo.

Even the Core processors are undergoing subtle refinements. Patience is your very BEST ally right now. Sit back and read. Open the checkbook when the smoke clears :)

$.02

PS: everyone said the Badaxe was better than sliced bread. Read around now and it's like yesterday's lunch left on the counter. So watch and read and be patient.
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Quote 4 Truth ;)
 
The Foxconn 975X board isn't much of an OCer, so fair warning.
OPB over at XS got a hold of one and couldn't get it to do anything without a heavily modded BIOS. link.

As for the 590 nVidia. I'm not holding my breath on it being an OCer of any magnitude.

Guess we'll see. Oh btw, check Asus's page. They added the 570 and 590 spots. Although alst time I checked only the 570 intel board had any info in it. So that means they are most likely on the way. Woohoo!
 
kirbyrj said:
Does anyone use the DFI board? I've only seen Coolater over at XS, but other than that, I don't hear much about it.
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i currently have the DFI board, it's pretty solid and no real complaints about it. It doesn't like having memory speeds above 360mhz so I have to use a divider, but I just read a thread over at XS from coolaler that DFI is going to release a new bios tomorrow that fixes that problem. My chip only gets 3.4ghz stable on the board, which is the chips fault. You can't really go wrong with it, it's pretty much just like the other 975x boards.
 
PureBooYah said:
i currently have the DFI board, it's pretty solid and no real complaints about it. It doesn't like having memory speeds above 360mhz so I have to use a divider, but I just read a thread over at XS from coolaler that DFI is going to release a new bios tomorrow that fixes that problem. My chip only gets 3.4ghz stable on the board, which is the chips fault. You can't really go wrong with it, it's pretty much just like the other 975x boards.
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I also have this board. Nice, but does not like anything over 325Mhz for me. running a 6300.

My question is what CPU are you using? what memory? (I'm using corsair 667 (5300XMS) and not having much luck. Also were you able to get the new bios from DFI? I was hoping to run my two 7800 GTX's but can not find a driver yet that will let the 975x run sli.

Thanks for your help!
 
Rogue said:
I also have this board. Nice, but does not like anything over 325Mhz for me. running a 6300.

My question is what CPU are you using? what memory? (I'm using corsair 667 (5300XMS) and not having much luck. Also were you able to get the new bios from DFI? I was hoping to run my two 7800 GTX's but can not find a driver yet that will let the 975x run sli.

Thanks for your help!
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chip is an e6600, memory is g.skill 800. DFI hasn't released the BIOS as of yet, it still has a lot of bugs (it's still in alpha) according to the people that do have it.
 
MSI Powerup Edition is the Fastest Motherboard for CONROE !


Check the results at XtremeSystems, they compared with Other boards, but at same CPU speed MSI is faster.
 
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