ok folks
I am officaily recommending this AW9D Max motherboard. The reason for which is this
With my week 29 Conroe 6600 2 gigs of corsair ram and watercooling CPu I tested them out on my work collegues Asus P5W DH Deluxe. I could NOT achieve a stable overclock higher than 3.689 if I went to 3.17 it went unstable and was unable to boot to windows. However using the exact same components and installed on the AW9D Max motherboard I achieved 3.817 STABLE and stable for TWO days straight!
Even with the Corsair Value Ram I was using I knew that if I replaced the northbridge block with a W/C cooled block I could EASILY break the 4 gig barrier.
Anyway I am including a link to my overclocking results and super-pi results.
They way I see it is that if I can do this on Corsair VALUE ram and the Standard UNMODIFIED Aw9d max motherboard, then you can all do it
This motherboard is the business and I offically recommend this board.
Link:
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/chr.../ph//my_photos
Just click on the pics to enlarge them
Jsut one thing please ABIT. PLEASE PLeASE please! Hurry up with an offical 1.3 Bios to fix the bootstrap 100/133mhz and the memory speed/timing.
I want to be able to select a LOWER memory speed to achieve HIGHER FSB!
Again thank you abit for going to the MAX on this board.
cheers
Gilgamesh