IS7 or IC7?

Both boards look nice, is there one thats better at overclocking? What are the pros/cons of both of these boards?

u can get just about anything u want on either. the ic7 has the 875 chipset which is supposed to be speed binned(sorted out) faster than the 865 chipset on the is7. however the is7 is abits top seller and seems to overclock real well

IC7's will theoretically OC better. If you have no use for on-board LAN and want to spend the extra $20 or so, I'd go with the IC7.

There was a point when the IS7 did better than the IC7, but that was when Abit cracked the PAT and turned it into GAT.

PAT & GAT??? Whats that?

Performance Accelerator Technology, which was a canterwood feature that boosted performance 5%. However, since the canterwoods and springdales are essentially the same exact (except binned) boards, it only took a matter of time for the springdales to get this feature.

Basically Abit unlocked the PAT in the springdales through a BIOS update and renamed it GAT (Game Accelerator Technology). Right when it was released, IS7's with GAT enabled outperformed the IC7's with PAT enabled. But now both have GAT, so the IC7 remains at the top of the food chain (and it was always a better overclocker, anyway).

And now Intel is destroying the ability to activate PAT/GAT on its springdales, so GAT/PAT may not even be on the IS7's that were recently released.

But is GAT still enabled on the IC7's?

Is PAT/GAT Hardware on the board or software programmed into ROM/BIOS?

Expain springdale and canterwood please.

I am getting an is7 to try.