ASRock Fatal1ty P67 PROFESSIONAL?

[VirtualLarry]

Just dreaming about which board I would use for a SB build. I really do want to try to hold onto my floppy and IDE ports, of which both P67 Fata1ity boards by Asrock have them.

This one has three PCI-E x16 slots (x8/x8/x4), and supports both CrossFire as well as SLI.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157240

It's currently $230 smackeroos. Not the most cost-effective, but top boards rarely are.

The question is, it's flashy, but is it really a top board? Does anyone know how well a SB 2500K/2600K OCs on this board? (With multi overclocking, it doesn't really stress the board any, except for the CPU VRMs. The Pro version claims to have V16+2 phase power.)

It looks beautiful to me, but then again, I've been slightly burned pricewise on fancy boards before, when cheaper boards would have sufficed. (DFI X48 LP LT T2RS, rather than a EP45-UD3P)

 

[Zap]

Expensive motherboards never give good bang for the buck. Best bang for the buck right now with Sandy Bridge is probably in the $120-180 range, where you get all the really useful features and overclocking.

ASRock sounds as if they have been pretty good these past couple years for enthusiast boards.

Floppy and IDE? Srsly? I have a USB floppy drive but otherwise haven't had a floppy drive in any computer in my household in the past half decade.

If I need to pull data off an old IDE drive, I have a USB adapter for that too.