Originally posted by: you2
What advantage does this board have over the p5b-e ? Also will the p965 chipset soon be outdated ?
Those are my questions
Advantages -
Runs on the 1066 strap up to 500+ FSB although latencies start to loosen up a little over 440. I can run the 800 strap up to 340FSB with the right memory and cooling further improving performance. Depending on the version of the E that you have, FSB overclocking is a little better. With the additional memory options in the BIOS that have been opened up, you can realistically be looking at a 4~9% improvement in memory sensitive applications if you take the time to really tune the board, possibly more with top tier memory if you benchmark for a living. This board is very fast, for the lack of better words, if you get it setup correctly. Also, the board features the ICH8R if RAID or additional SATA ports are important to you.
Overall, in most applications unless you are overclocking, you will probably not/never see any significant differences in performance. No real reason to switch unless you overclock, benchmark, or utilize a large majority of programs that are memory sensitive. However, it is probably one of the more solid P965 boards released since last June and everything so far works properly after the last BIOS update regardless of CPU choice. Unlike a lot of DFI boards, it is forgiving across a wide range of memory types.
That being said, the board is sensitive to power supplies, it flexes a little more around the CPU socket than I like (we call it "Death by Flex" around here), and is a little temperamental if the BIOS is not setup properly.
The P965 will move down market over time, just as the 945P has the last year. I wish I could comment on the P35, the only thing I can say is that it works great with the 1333CPUs, as it should.