So what should I look for in a good SB overclocking board?

[faxon]

With almost everything overclocking related moved to the CPU, is there anything I need to look at in a board besides vrms and layout? Cooling won't be an issue since I WC and I can get blocks for the boards hot parts anyway, and I'm really having a hard time distinguishing what makes each board special besides value add features and layout. This will be pared with a 2600k, aiming for 4.6-5ghz goal under water, and plan to push as high as I can go, with 8GB of ram minimum. This will be to replace the board CPU and ram in my sig

 

[shabby]

Nothing really stands out now, every board seems to be overclocking these cpu's rather well even the inexpensive boards.

 

[Hogan773]

Those "military spec" heatsinks that make your mobo look like a Decepticon

 

[RobDickinson]

Looks like its down to how many video cards you want to run (and what type).

 

[Shmee]

ya, and perhaps the features, such as how many sata/usb ports

 

[faxon]

Those "military spec" heatsinks that make your mobo look like a Decepticon

my comp is gonna look more like it's on heavy duty dialysis. remember, water cooling :biggrin:. ill just wait for reviews on all the UEFI boards and see what stands out under more extreme overclocking conditions. i have a few boards in mind which i think would work well though, just gotta check what it's all gonna require in the end and what boards will fit with stock watercooling parts since it will be a bit before any custom full board blocks are out. only thing that bugs me is that all the boards i see cept one or two $270+ boards only come with a single gigabit NIC, while i've become very accustomed to having two on my originally $135 board (it comes in very handy when you're a networking student). isnt a huge deal since i can get an add in NIC but i would have liked to get another dual NIC board instead of something with 6 USB3 ports and dual ESATA. another thing i noticed is that very few boards have more than 6 SATA ports as well, with only a few of the top picks offering 8 and none offering 10. my drive capacity fluctuates with time but i am currently utilizing 5 + an IDE drive and when that drive dies i plan to swap it to SATA (wont be long, been buggy recently), so having 8+ SATA is practically a must have. i guess ill be waiting till more feature rich boards launch if we dont get more boards with 8 sata ports around