WJA96 said:I take your point completely - but he wants a board now that will work with an 805 and Conroe. I bet he'll get a 500-700MHz increase in FSB clock at stock volts with this motherboard and he has a fiar chance of getting a moderate to decent clock out of his Conroe too. And at £125 for thye 805/775TWINS pair, they're pretty much disposable in terms of depreciation.
And there is no guarantee that Intel will not 'hobble' the new motherboards like they did with the 915 and 925 chipsets where anything more than a 10% overclock just failed to boot.
It wasn't until 925XE that most manufacturers found a way to overcome the PCIe ratio issue that Intel had built in to stop people overclocking the cheaper units and foce them to buy the more expensive one for higher clock speeds.
Anyway - I think I've probably got to the point where I'm blathering, so I'll stop
He = Me mate but you make some good points
