I like them both charlie. Both are well made and overclock well. I'll have to play with some of the memory settings, but the Asus seems a little faster in spi. I'm pretty sure I got 29s at 2.9G on the Asus. The Gigabyte got 30s, but is probably not a full second behind. My guess is that the Asus will be quicker in 2001se as well, but I'll have to check that out. The main advantage of the gigabyte is the ease of the mods and the higher vdimm that can be reached. The vcore mod on the Asus is also abit risky. It would seem to me that if you got a bad connection or pulled a wire loose your vcore could go very high and fry the cpu. Let me get the mods done of the gigabyte and I'll run some 3d tests this weekend.