I own this board . you said it was a see saw battle. i beg to differ. i bought this board almost 3 months ago. This board has better overclocking . you wouldnt know that because you tested two crapy cpus at 2.6 ghz. with this board overclocked 100 more mhz then my last board which was only 3 months old. i was able to hit a perfect 3.5 ghz on my athlon 6400 and my other 6000 cpu. in fact. i put the cpu multy to 14 and raised to FSB. my other mobo hit 3.4 ghz and 970 mhz on ram. while this new mobo hit 3.5 and a 1000 mhz even on ddr2 ram* Zalman 9700 led air cooler*. prob higher but i think my cheap gskill was maxed at 1000. this board his a higher peak then the other board. great review just though id add what i found while using this board.( sorryfor the typos. im tring to get this done fastas my internet is out till monday , im outsiding borrowing a signal. even in FL is cold as amofo in Feb.) This is a great Mobo and the spacing of the 4 pciE 2.0 slots are perfect. u can use 4 double slot cards on this mobo . most mobo put the other 2 pcie slots close together making it where u can only use 3 pcie slots becuase the 4th is block by the 3rd. gota go. Great review. over clock this a bit using high end cpus not crap and see what happens. youll think more of this mobo. good day. oh and one more thing. im using apowercolor 3850 512 . using the new overclocked settings on this mobo i am able to play COD4 with everything maxed without a single hitch. at 3.4 ghz and 970 ram itgs stil a slight bit choppy.  to me that made all the differnce

I've bought this Mobo right nowand thinking about chipset pipe cooling and basic physics. Do you thing it is important how the board is mounted, horizontally or vertically. My understanding is the hottest part (SB ?) of piping should be lower than coolest part (cooler close to CPU?).

I didn!t find any comments till now, is there anybody who knows physics better than me?