ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe

I was reading over at Xtreme Systems Forum that these boards suck for overclocking. Actually the consensus was that all NV chipsets suck for OC'ing Intel cpu's. Is this true? I was hoping this board would be halfway descent as it is SLI for 1 and 2, the other intel boards are very expensive in comparison. Also I will currently only be able to afford a midrange video card for the next 2-3 months, so if I go with an intel chipset that supports crossfire i will be stuck with something along the lines of the x1600pro which to me seems vastly inferior for the money to a 7600GT or even the 7600GS. Most people want dual cards for top end cards, I just want an upgrade solution, and even 3 months down the line I might get another used card cheaper. Any suggestions? I was about to pull the trigger on this boart for $125. I dont have $200+ for a good OC'ing intel chipset that supports crossfire unless I missed something. I am getting very frustrated. Should I just return my D805 NIB and go for the older 939 or opteron stuff? I need most bang for buck, as I am very and I mean that in the strictest sense fund limited. I spent $110 on the D805. I want to have 2G of ram as I do alot of multi tasking and heavy gaming (although my 6800NU is showing is age in new games) I was going to get this memory http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820227030
Comes to $159 after rebate so thats $269 Was going to shoot for this video card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150141

$144 after rebate So I am at $413

Basicly I have the D805 here and I have about $450 left to spend. Ideas anyone?

Does this board really suck? $125 seems like a nice price.

Board is CRAP, please look elsewhere for your dual vid card needs.....

Screw it then. I am just going to get the P5WD2 Premium. No one can come up with a reasonabley priced board that will OC good for the D805, and everyone (almost everyone) says the nforce boards suck. Man, I didn't want to have to spend that kind of money on a MB. Its going to set me back a month on getting the other components. Oh well. Thanks for the advice.

Didnt mean to come off as being too harsh man, its jsut that i went thru 5 of those damn boards, and finially saw the light and got a P5WD2-E. BEST choice in motherboards that i have ever made, HIGHLY overclockable, got rid of the Nvidia cards for 2 X1900's for crossfire, and couldnt be happier..

If you want the "hacked" SLI drivers for the INTEL chipset, let me know, have em for the 32bit os....


This is what can be done with a 920, with a Koolance Exos setup...

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=93164

I know that the 805 will be a good overclocker also, good luck with the build....

Wow, Nice OC. I think I am going to go with the P5WD2-E Premium. I haven't heard anything but good things about it. I may have to cut back on what I spend on ram though which sucks. Would I be able to get away with this ram:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227030

Its the cheapest 2G of DDR2800 I could find, and I am sure I will save a little on the video as I will probably wind up going with the X1600xt unless the hack really does work well. How does that work? It just convinces the driver that its an nforce chipset? Has anyone benched them like that?

That memory will be fine for what you want, i have 4x512 of the same mem, so you can see what it will do by my oc...

The drivers are hacked to remove the "Nforce" portion of it from what i understand, so it will work on the INTEL shipsets, take a look over at XS forums, they have a big post about em there....