Mr said:
I'm in the same boat as many others when it comes to building my new pc.
It's hard to find *exactly* what one wants.
Looking at MB's, mostly Asus and Abit. Is Gigabyte also a good reliable
mb?
Well, generally, yes. I have the infamous GA-8IRXP, which promised 1.85
volts for overclocking, but instability limited overclocking the voltage to
1.75, which was what all the other similar boards offered. Some people were
enraged on how Gigabyte handled it. But that was 2-1/2 years ago. I've been
pretty happy with my board. I've upgraded the CPU from a 2.0A Northwood to
a 2.6A, and It's plenty fast since the CPU upgrade. It's never been
anything but stable. I'd buy another Gigabyte board in a heartbeat,
expecially their highend stuff with the Dual Stage Power addon.