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I'm lining up to buy one of these two mobos and I'm not really sure what I should be looking for. The Asus board was recommended by a friend but the Gigabyte board was recommended (budget) in a magazine I read. They seem pretty similar on the face, the Gigabyte board is cheaper and apparently easily overclockable. I dunno how overclockable the Asus board is, or even if I'll overclock it anyway.
The one thing I can tell (I think) is that the Gigabyte board does not support the full FSB speed of the chip.
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Man, you must have alot of money
They both should be pretty good for you.You can overclock Asus boards very well. I've had a few Asus board for about 5 years now and never had any trouble whats so ever. It may be beneficial to do a review search and read what people who have bought them have to say.
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I only have great things to say about Asus boards. I haven't built a computer with anything else for a while.
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Man, you must have alot of money
They're cheaper here! Mid to bottom range!
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Well....... you know which I'll reccomend.
The linux compatibility of the asus has been near flawless. I say near because for a couple of months the network driver hadnt made it into vanilla. It is in vanilla now. Only other downside is that it has a slow boot, spends a little bit longer than I like at
As for overclocking, the asus seems to have lots of options -- if there's anything specific you'd like me to check, lemme know -- but overclocking really doesnt seem worth the trouble for me.
So long as you get an intel chipset, and a namebrand motherboard which has no known major faults, you should be fine whichever board you get. Magazines are a good place to look for information on these, once in a while you get a good round up - only problem is that the information gets old quick.
James
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