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This one isn't urgent, but it's irritating me.

My normally faithful Gigabyte P965-DS3 has demonstrated a total inability to do all of these three tasks simultaneously:

1) overclock
2) run 4 DIMMs
3) boot with more than 1 USB device plugged in

This irks me , since it was everybody's favorite overclocking board in it's day - but I guess that was a day when RAM was much more expensive, and people in general didn't test it with 4 sticks.

For now I shall simply not plug in my scanner/pendrive until I've booted into windows, but in the long run I'm on the lookout for a new motherboard. I don't care about SLI, firewire, RAID, or really anything beyond being able to do the three points above at the same time. I have 1 SATA HDD, 1 SATA DVD, and no floppy, serial, or parallel devices needing legacy sockets.

I currently have my eye on an Asus P5K-E WiFi (since it would be no bad thing to get rid of my PCI wireless card in the process) but I am open to suggestion from anyone who is managing all 3 of the above with a different board

Thoughts appreciated.
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My normally faithful Gigabyte P965-DS3 has demonstrated a total inability to do all of these three tasks simultaneously:

1) overclock
2) run 4 DIMMs
3) boot with more than 1 USB device plugged in


Has it always been like this? Or has something new been added to the system?
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What might be a good idea is to go through Newegg's motherboards (or of course elsewhere if you're outside of the US) looking for ones that meet your ideal price point, features, compatibility, etc. and posting links to them here so that we can pick away at the good and bad of them to get you to a decision. =)
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people still overclock?
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