smids said:The Dual SATA2 is a good board and has lots of features above the nF3 so I'd certainly say do that. I'm sure someone can help you out on the settings too if you head into the motherboard section. Good luck.
And in answer to your HTT question about 300mhz vs 294mhz - I don't think that was the HTT causing that - it sounds more like the memory controller. It would seem that if you managed to get 300mhz stable, then the chipset CAN handle 300mhz (rare but doable on the nF3) but I doubt it'd go much further than that.
I purchased the EPoX board as I'd spent three months of trying to get the most out of the Asrock DS, and I was still stuck at running with an HTT of 274
The OCW beta's just wouldn't play ball. Everyone I tried it would never "remember" my voltage settings when I turned my system off then on and so would load the BIOS defaults.On one occasion after flashing to the OCW beta 2 BIOS, I spent 2 days stress testing to make sure I'd got a stable overlclock of 2.65GHz, only for it to lose my settings when I turned my machine off
I found the official BIOS's a bit hit and miss as well; you have to be spot on with how you configure your BIOS settings else your machine wont boot. I know this is the case with most other BIOS's, but this seemed worse than any other I've come across. I even got cold boot issues with IDE drives
On paper, the EPoX board seemed a better proposition. The ability to set the HTT to 400, VDimm setting of 2.8v and the option to increase the VCore over 1.5v. It's a pain in the proverbial I didn't know of the nF3 issues and high HTT values.
