Overall I'd say I'm pretty happy with it, and for £50 you can't go wrong really I guess.
It's not a mad overclocker's board granted, but then again my last board (an MSI K8N neo 2 platinumn) was supposed to be and cost twice as much, and I only used to run it stable at 218 fsb, 1:1 6,3,3,2.5 timings but I could do T1 on that.
How much of a difference is T1 and T2 timing anyway, doesn't seem to make a huge difference with Athlon 64s from what I've read and seen?
The major bonus for me with this board, and the main reason I got it was the 6800GT pausing issue, which now seems to be completely fixed. I have it running at normal volts, 400 core, 1080 mem and it's fine. This has been the most frustrating thing in the last year, this whole nforce 3, 6800 freezing issue has beena joke which Nvidia have done
marzipan [all about, which is pathetic.
Small rant over, here's a few comparisons I did using Aquamark 3 (as it's a quick benchmark and gives you seperate GPU and CPU scores):
1.) 235fsb x10 , cpu at 2.35, RAM at 10,3,3,2.5
2T timing and DDR333 speeds:
Score = 66,225 (GPU 9,987 CPU 9,379)
2.) 235fsb x10, cpu at 2.35, RAM at 10,3,3,2.5
1T timing and DDR333 speeds:
Score= 67,774 (GPU 10,247 CPU 10,014)
3.) 210fsb x 11, cpu at 2.31, RAM at 10,3,3,2 2T timing and DDR400 speeds (ie 1:1):
Score: 67,025 (GPU 10,152 CPU 9,863)
235 is the highest fsb I seem to be able to use at the moment, at 240 it won't boot and I have to then clear the CMOS. I think for now I'm sticking with number 3 from above, the 2T isssue seems too unstable at the moment...
