Quote Originally Posted by kup View Post
This the last Asus board for me. I've never experienced such bad bios' on such good boards as with my Striker Extreme and this Maximus Formula...

I'm going to stick with Abit or DFI from now on, at least they get things right more often than Asus and their backwards bios'!!!!
I can't say anything about Abit but DFI is every bit as bad as you think Asus is, maybe worse. Their ICFX3200 T2R/G was a disaster. C1E memory errors with multiple known good sets ram. It also fried good parts for many. In my case a perfectly good x1950 crossfire card. Their P965 was no better. It couldn't run any version of Linux till a bios update released a few weeks ago. The P965 was also too PSU picky. I have a perfectly good PCP&C Silencer 750. 2 965 boards would not boot with it. ( 3 Asus boards have run great with the same PSU) Oddly the 3rd DFI 965 board booted and ran fine with a Silencer 610. I used to love DFI. No more!!! My experience... 5 of 10 DFI boards bad. 5 of 5 Asus boards have worked well. You might say 4 of 5 simply because I haven't OC'ed the Maximus yet. It ran fine for 10 days at stock settings folding 100% cpu 24/7 with a Q6600 G0 and Ballistix PC 8500 @1066. I'll know more about the Maximus in a couple weeks.