OK, so im a poor (and dumb) college student, who recently built his first computer after coming back to nerd-dom. The dumb factor is in that I bought a stock intel board and cooler thinking *whiney voice* "I'll never overclock, its too scary". Well, my board will OC to 10% and im hooked.
Now I'm saving for a better mobo and WCing apparatus.
From what I've seen/heard ASUS and DFI are making the best performance boards for OCing intel chipsets.
Which do you folks prefer?
Current board is Intel D925XCV with an P4 3.4ghtz & HT.

Both are good, but you get more overclocking options with the DFI board.

I have used 3 generations of DFI Lan Parties for AMD, and everyone has been the fastest overclocking board of its type.

Intel does very well with DFI from the reviews I have read.

DFI makes pro gear for sure, but beware the northbridge fan, it's noisy and swapping is not always easy depending on where the northbridge is located in comparision with the AGP/PCIEX ports.

ASUS is also a very good brand.

if you buy an ASUS i will have you banned from PR......

Quote: Originally Posted by j-dogg if you buy an ASUS i will have you banned from PR......

LOL bro, I am guessing you bought that DFI last night, still using AMD XP ha, noob with old tech ! LOL, jk.

ASUS is dam good, and even though I know you were joking (I hope, hehe) if you remember DFI (Designed for Innovation) was a POS company a few years back when it came to PC parts.

Now, its a one eighty, but who is counting anyways.

And BTW, I have a DFI baord,

Let me tell you a thing or two about my experiences with DFI......

My first DDR board was my DFI AZ-30 TL, bought it new and it is the only piece of pre-Pimprig hardware along with my Duron 850 that still works. It's heatsink modded with a K6-2 cooler on the northbridge and a passive blue heatsink on the south bridge. It has housed EVERY Socket A processor I have ever owned except my 2600 because it does not support it.

When I started pimping it up old skool I nabbed a DFI K6XV3 Socket 7 mobo, and thats where I learned to overclock. I also got a K6BV3 AT mobo (same thing but AT form factor) and did some serious K6-2 OCing on that.

EVERY ASUS I have ever owned had some sort of issue, my A7N8X-E is in half now from sheer frustration. My TUSI-M just decided to not work anymore. My old skool P5-AB wouldn't overclock worth sh1t and burned a K6-2+ (very valuable processor)

Yes I did get that DFI it should be here next week. NoSlak has an unlocked 2500 I might pick up too.

Similar question:
Has anyone ever heard of motherboard manufacturer called Elitegroup?
I was looking around Newegg while avoiding my homework and found this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813135187
For about $70 less than the P5AD2E Premuim with all the features I'm lookin for plus RAID 0+1 it looks good.
Just wondering if anyone has seen any of these, or better if anyone has OCed anythig of theirs.
Thanks

OMG Elitegroup is even worse than ASUS. If you buy either of those two I will have your d1ck and your balls chopped off and fed to a pack of rabid ferrets....

Man, thats why I love this site. Get a stright answer everytime. Thanks J.

if you can hold out a bit longer, you can pick up a DFI board w/ SLI capablity.

im not sure if they will make a board with your socket and SLI, but its something worth checking out.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...039TX1K0000564

as for what mobo to buy.. i use to be a Asus lover, but after discovering DFI, i havent looked back.
i agree that Asus always had some kind of problem with thier mobo's, not saying that DFI doesnt, but DFI has such a huge ass support community, as well as people who work at major memory companoes frequent thier boards and offer support. havent seen any other mobo vendor do the same.

i think i'd go with DFI also even though i'm on my second asus mb(p4c800e-d)i'm yet to have a prob. with it (knock on wood)(the DFI'S weren't popular when i bought this so i never considered one

but my last one,a p4p8xse had wicked issues......come to find out the first dimm slot was junk
and i was stuck only using slots 2 & 4 in dual channel when i had 4 x 256mb ddr 433 @ 2-2-2-5
also the retainer lock for the cpu worked like crap and when ever i changed the heatsink it
would pull the cpu out of the socket,thank god i never lost a pin..........

I know a lot of guys who swear by Asus, but my first Asus board was a disappointment and gave me problems. After that, I started bucking the trend and going Abit and I was pleased, not the best OC boards, but real solid.

I just got a DFI Lanparty Board for Socket LGA 775, "T". I really like this board, in fact, the Northbridge HS is passive. I really didn't need all the goo-gaa bling they packed with it, UV reactive rounded cables and Front-X module, but I do like this board.

I have a Asus P4p800-E mobo. I was able to OC my P4 from 3.0 ghz to 3.6 ghz. Yet like everyone else I have had a few problems with it. The first one is It won't let me Oc my ram. Secondly the ethernet port was DOA but had built whole PC before finding out so said a S^%#$, and bought a USB adapter thingy. It also won't let me change my CPU voltages my self. So I have had a few probs but it's a good mobo. (but my next board is a DFI) What socket does your P4 use?

Get either the 925XE or 955 chipset, they are by and far the best Intel chipsets out on the market for OCing, no OC caps for anyone to worry about or work around. The 955 also does dual cores for the future. You have the 925X right now, that means DDR2 so both these boards are fine for you.
here are a few;

Abit AA8XE
Abit AA8XE Fatal1ty
Asus P5AD2-E Deluxe
Asus P5AD2-E Premium
Asus P5WD2 Premium

my 2 cents