Gigabte ds4 or Asus P5NE-SLI which is easiest to OC ?

MINUS12 · 6 Jul 2007 at 13:58

Basically i want to buy a motherboard that is very easy for newcomers to overclock,setup,etc and have good after support :confused:

I have heard good and bad about both boards regarding,bios,vdrop,etc, thats why its so hard to choose.

Please help as this is becoming very confusing

Many thanks

Christian

BUFF · 6 Jul 2007 at 14:57

which DS4, the 650i one or the 965 or the P35 ...?

MINUS12 · 6 Jul 2007 at 16:55

The gigabyte DS4 rev 3 965p and the asus P5NE-SLI 650i

MeatLoaf · 6 Jul 2007 at 17:39

Both clock about the same - depends what ram you have as on the p5n-e you can overclock the cpu independantly of the ram

BUFF · 6 Jul 2007 at 18:56

I've had both the DS4 (a rev1 though) & the P5N-E - if you don't need SLI imo the DS4 is better.
but I would take the QuadGT or an IP35 Pro over either.

MINUS12 · 6 Jul 2007 at 19:01

buff why do you think its better ?

Also did your ds4 have any issues when you first built it , like the repeated boot problem reported on these forums and the overclocking resetting to default ?

ICEMANKIMI · 6 Jul 2007 at 21:59

will ocuk ever get anymore 965p ds4's ?

BUFF · 6 Jul 2007 at 23:52

MINUS12 said:
buff why do you think its better ?

the P5N-E seems to me to show obvious corner cutting - the soldered BIOS chip, cutdown PCB etc.
I just found imo the DS4 to be more of a quality mobo & the P5N-E nb runs very hot..

Also did your ds4 have any issues when you first built it , like the repeated boot problem reported on these forums and the overclocking resetting to default ?

I never had any problems with mine but then I didn't get it until quite late so a lot of the early problems had been worked out.