Seems they're not retailing these NIB anymore. Still thought I'd throw in my 2cents. These MB are still in wide use and have something of a following. I have MB ver 1.6
Had this board for a year now and am happy with it. It's never failed. Had a q9550 eo for the first year overclocked to 3.8ghz/444fsb paired with 8gb G.Skill ddr2-1066. Took some time to get voltages right. Recently been playing with an X3380. btw It's cake in comparison to q9550. So far I can push and abuse the board with lots of overclocking experimentation and it continues to bounce back. As far as ease-of-use it's not the very best overclocking bios in the world but it's pretty dang good. I know it front-to-back after playing around with it for quite a while and it never glitches.
One tip: manually set the proper driving strength (1066 for me) for the memory. That's in the bios/mbtweaker/advanced-memory options. Also, as far as voltage goes LLC seems to be mandatory for stable overclocking, at least on my board. The automatic voltage adjustments work fine but the vtt, pll, and mch tend to jack way higher than needed. It's easy to set the vcore manually and test an OC, then go back and manually set the vtt, etc lower than the auto settings. Also a vdroop always makes software report vcore about .04 lower than bios setting, so 1.4vcore shows as 1.36, 1.45 shows 1.41, etc. I know it's tough math but stick with it and you'll go places.
I've booted up way beyond stable with 500+ fsb and 1.5+ vcore and bonked over and over, then gone back to sane (3.8ghz or so) levels with 24hr prime95 stability. Only once did I have a real problem and that's when the Raid 0 blew out when I was pushing the OC way beyond safe levels (533fsb). Both drives are fine it just somehow bonked the array. The rig continues to soldier on, OC, test hard and play games. I get low DPC latency and media streaming is smooth.
not bad for a bone. A good core for older hardware you want to piece together. There's also a lot of info on making a homebrew OSX hackintosh box with one of these.
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