Stable 775 mobo that can reliably hit 400 FSB in OC?

[Zinthar]

My last rig was an E6400 with a DS3 mobo -- got it to 430 Mhz FSB stable. Unfortunately, the Gigabyte mainboard gave out on me within months. A friend of mine did his built likewise and his DS3 never posted (he traded it in for the Asus 965 series deluxe mobo).

I'm no longer interested in playing the price/performance efficiency game where the risk is that the motherboard can't handle the extreme overclock. I want something that can run a nice, stable overclock to 400 Mhz FSB or so (or at least 375) with no annoying quirks that require large investments of time to troubleshoot.

In short, I've been very impressed with the near universal high reviews given to the Bad Axe 2. I know it's possibly the worst overclocking C2D board around, but if it can usually reach 400 Mhz when not CPU/memory bound then I'd love to try to pair it with an E4400 or E6700 (for 10x multipliers) and perhaps upgrade to Q6600 when the price drops off in a few months.

Thoughts/suggestions?!?

 

[iwearnosox]

Funny, I just fried a DS3 myself. My water cooled 6600 sprung a leak on it.

I just ordered the badaxe from amazon, $227 shipped overnight. All the reviews look good, and with the 9x multiplier of the 6600 I expect an easy 3.6ghz out of it. The bios seems like a pain in the arse to deal with when resetting though.

Anyhoo I think you're making a good choice.

 

[jhurst]

ASUS P5B-Deluxe

 

[Heidfirst]

at 400fsb 975X is probably going to give you the best performance of any current chipset & from what I can understand the Bad Axe 2 is quite capable of 400fsb.

For a better 965 the abit AB9 QuadGT will do 400fsb with absolute ease & imo it's better than the DS4 that I had before.