Any board is better than a board you cant get. IMO the EVGA is the best of the boards out right now. Hopefully the DFI wil out perform it, maybe we will know next week. Remenber, the EVGA has a 5 month headstart on bug fixes, now that board is near perfect. We all hope the reason the DFI hasn't been released is b/c they were working out those bugs before release. I hated EVGA with a passion @ initial release, we were all their beta testers. It sure would be nice if you could get a 680i board that was near perfect at launch. /me hopes its the DFI.