Quote Originally Posted by GAR View Post
Hey guys to answer your questions, the gigabyte is an overall easier board to work with.....the first time i had it i exchanged it only because it was really bad with 4 sticks of ram, i now have only 2 sticks with the g.skill 4gb pc 1000, the gigabyte board let me be stable at 3.843ghz on my cpu, 427x9, and 1066mhz on my ram, but the asus maximus has a higher memory bandwidth and better latency with the same settings.......but overall im happy with the gigabyte, if the asus didnt have the voltage issue i would take that over the gigabyte, but as it stands now i like the gigabyte board a bit better than the maximus.

Also the OCCT issue seems to be present on the gigabyte board as well, the program doesnt crash, but the windows desktop crashes, when everything returns, all i have is occt still running and has not failed with a black background.....so im guessing occt caused something to go wrong and caused the corruption.....weird thing is its still running the program without errors........maybe this program is too unrealistic, i had this issue even at stock settings, no OC........this is on vista x64, im not sure about windows xp.

Sounds to me like you lowered your expectations

I am running 4 sticks of OCZ Platinum at 1066 and am really having no complains about the Maximus. I was not able to get 4.1 out oof the CPU...but then again this is not a DFI either

What I expect from Asus (easy clocking) and what I got (twitchy finnicky clocking) might put some people off. But honestly once you learn the board and take advantage of it's strengths it's a solid performer.