Best OCing and Tweaking Motherboard?

[DeEjAy LiM]

Any experts out there that can tell me which mobo is the best for OCing and tweaking for an AMD X2 939?

I've heard from some of my friends DFI Lanparty hands down. I rather hear from the community what they have to say.

 

[Megatomic]

I have made the personal decision to never buy another DFI product again. Too many defective mobos. But I've heard awesome things about the ASrock s939 boards, have you checked them out?

 

[DeEjAy LiM]

Right now I own a crappy board. Just check my Assassin's link. I was gonna wait for cyber monday to buy a new board. By then, anything 939 will be a little bit cheaper to make way for the AM2. So I just wanted to see which would be a good high end replacement.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
I have made the personal decision to never buy another DFI product again. Too many defective mobos. But I've heard awesome things about the ASrock s939 boards, have you checked them out?

Asrock overclock like crap.

DFI all the way, any of the lanparty series boards are rock solid.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd

Originally posted by: Megatomic
I have made the personal decision to never buy another DFI product again. Too many defective mobos. But I've heard awesome things about the ASrock s939 boards, have you checked them out?

Asrock overclock like crap.

DFI all the way, any of the lanparty series boards are rock solid.

DFI all the way to the trashcan is more like it. And just read the threads (pre-conroe of course), lots of guys got awesome overclocks with ASrock boards.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: Megatomic

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd

Originally posted by: Megatomic
I have made the personal decision to never buy another DFI product again. Too many defective mobos. But I've heard awesome things about the ASrock s939 boards, have you checked them out?

Asrock overclock like crap.

DFI all the way, any of the lanparty series boards are rock solid.

DFI all the way to the trashcan is more like it. And just read the threads (pre-conroe of course), lots of guys got awesome overclocks with ASrock boards.

I've tried Asrock boards (based on price) and they couldn't hit 300fsb no matter what I tried. I even applied a waterblock to the chipset.

I've never found a DFI board that wasn't 100% stable and wouldn't go to 300+ FSB.

 

[DeEjAy LiM]

Wow. That's surprising news. You couldn't reach 300 FSB with neither or keep it stable?

 

[redbox]

I have had very good luck with overclocking 3 different motherboards all of them DFI not one problem here. Just make sure to check DFI-Street.com and make sure you have them help you set the board up with memory and a good powersupply. That being said DFI Lanparties are not for the noob. They will give you very good results, but they are very picky with ram. OCZ and Gskill seam to do fine with them. Most of the problems with NF4 Lanparties where because the person didn't set it up right.

That being said if you want a decent board for cheap then ASrock are pretty good. As to if they are good overclockers I think it is more of a hit and miss thing. I have heard the new one for conroe doesn't do very good only about 2.4ghz on an e6300, plus I don't think it can run at a 1t command rate for memory. where as the new Lanparties can run with all dimms full 1t command rate.

Bottom line if you want speed and overclocking then get a lanparty (be sure to pick your ram right)
If you want a nice cheap board with the possiblity of overclocking fairly well then asrock is your board.

Hope this helps.