best board for SB OC?

[panyan]

hi guys, at first i was sure i wanted an asus becuase i have always used asus mobos. BUT, then i read a bunch of stuff saying that the EFI BIOS was very poor for overclocking.

So then i thought about getting Gigabyte, who i know make fantastic mobos, but i read that the UD4 has some problems overclocking SB and the UD3 seems too cheap to be good and the UD7 is out of my budget spec.

Then i thought about MSI or ASRock, but i have no experience with these companies and have no ides is they are any good.

Im looking for ATX size, im not looking for lots of pci slots, just one graphics card, with plenty of fan headers

ANWAY, what is the most stable and best board for an 2500k Oc'd to something like 4.4-4.8?

thanks

 

[panyan]

I have the P8P67 Deluxe Rev.B3 and its run like a dream from the minute I switched it on.

how long have you been using it? overclocked?

I would think of them in this order

GIGABYTE P67A-UD7
MSI P67-GD65
ASRock P67 Extreme 6
Asus Pro

so no ASUS between the gigabyte and the MSI?

Me too

EDit: I just moved from ASUS (14 years I was an ASUS user) to MSI and much prefer MSI now.

PLEASE can you you write a little more, i;d love to know how you got on and what you found the difference between gigabyte and MSI are

 

[panyan]

I chose MSI over ASUS purely because a friend of mine had a P67 Pro and had had nothing but problems and every BIOS flash brought with it new problems. To be fair though it was bought within the 1st week of release and may not be a fair comparison to newer bios versions or indeed the B3 variant.
(he sent his back to the store he bought it from last week to get a B3 version, got his new board 4 days later to find he sent his old one back to the shop with the i5 2500k still fitted )

I then chose MSI over Gigabyte because of the MSI having the Uefi and it was cheaper for the amount of SATA 6gb/ps ports I wanted. That and more people on the forums here were recommending MSI over Gigabyte, so I took the plunge and it has been perfect so far. Updated bios to 1.10b1 and a few other bios flashes before that and it has been very simple, wether using a usb pen and MSI Forum BIOS Tool or Liveupdate from MSI site. Also Live update is good for normal drivers etc required and gives you slightly updated ones to that available on the disc (on my b2 variant anyway).

I dare say people are slighly biased towards there own choice, but for me the move from ASUS has been good. I have never had a Gigabyte product so cannot really comment on them.

this is very intersting, as i have read a lot of great things about this board, but then i read this:
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/msi_p67a-gd65_motherboard_review/1

and it totally shook my confidence in this board

(i assume it is ok to post another websites review becuase they dont sell stuff and overclockers dont review )