yeh they are both good boards i like asus but got the ud7 as max not available then, i'm really happy with the sandy lets hope you get lucky with a good cpu with the sandies its all about the frequency wall rather than overclocking skill we have acquired over the years mike , first sandy i had needed a lot of vcore but it died, 2nd one which iam using runs warm but does not need a lot of vcore 1.4v (1.38) under load linx stable 5ghz and the replacement cpu was crap wouldn't hold 5ghz stable so its a bit of a lottery with cpu's