Anyone have experience with a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS4P

[jonnyjl]

Plan on combining a Gigabyte with GA-EP45-DS4P with a Q6600. I like it mainly because of the feature set, the silent pipe cooling, and the support up to 16gb RAM. I want to do 2x4GB Module, if it goes in stock anywhere, to begin and upgrade to 16gb at a later point.

I'll take any experience with the GA-EP45-DS4P too.. .can't seem to find reviews.

 

[OCChronic]

http://priceguru.in/archives/news/new-hardware/2323/5

The above link has an east Indian review and from the looks of it, the baord has the BIOS to harness the P45's legendary OC prowess. the only thing missing for me would be the ICH10R. This board has the less expensive ICH10(no RAID)

 

[jonnyjl]

Hmm Gigabyte lists the ICH10R as the Southbridge Chipset. Raid isn't much of a concern for me. I think I will eventually build a RAID5 array, but when that comes I'm going with a hardware-based RAID card. Though if I do that I may put a RAID 0 array in for "performance". I think by that time we'll be up to 2TB so the RAID 5 could contain backups + Media

Thank you for the review, going through it now.

 

[jonnyjl]

Well I pulled the trigger on this board.

Haven't OC'd it yet... but I'm glad to report that 8GIGs of RAM, 2x4GB, works just great.

I so lucked out on getting the OCZ 8Gig kit... that thing didn't stay in stock for long on Newegg.

Oh and it definitely comes with ICH10R