I'm looking for a good P45 board, and the reviews I've seen so far have been little help to me. I know DFI makes a good motherboard, and the price on this particular board makes it more tempting. But the specs say it's limited to ddr2 800, while most P45 boards are 1066/1200. Is this really a big deal? There certainly are a lot more options in the 800 speed, and the latency is a little better. Does anyone have a good, educated opinion on this?

That board can take much faster ram speeds, its a DFI! I've had my abit P35 board at DDR2-900 speeds but the RAM couldn't go more, cheap RAM btw

Not sure why they say it only supports DDR2 533/800. Their processor specs say that it supports 1333/1066/800MHz FSB and I am sure I have seen on forums that this DFI board has these straps in the BIOS. Its probably due to the fact that DDR2-800 was the highest official frequency for DDR2, 1066/1200 are technically just overclocked DDR2-800 modules.

Moral of the story, not a big deal especially for a DFI board. DFI offers all of the tweaks you would need to get around not having the 'proper' strap settings

Thanks for the enlightened responce. Overclocked 800 modules,huh? Good to know!

I've been eying that board myself. Let us know how it goes!