Quote Originally Posted by crazyea View Post
This is too simple. The maximus is a great board. it overclocks well, and has very good performance even without all of the memory options.

I have both, the maximus oc's just as well with less tinkering. The dfi, also a great board, has a lot of options that don't really improve performance that much at all, but rather can cause major instabilities.

I love both boards, but they both oc about the same, perform about the same. I don't see any clear winner. I will however, give the maximus the advantage in that it doesn't boot to a black screen on occasion (warm boot) requiring cold boots like the dfi does.
The Maximus is a good board. But to unequivocally say it overclocks as well as the DFI X38 is a bit misleading. For most users this statement is most likely true. But for the minority that understand the settings of the DFI BIOS and are willing to spend the time using them, processor and memory will normally be able to be pushed further then on any other board.

If this ability makes the board a better choice would be dictated by the individual user. And I would agree that for most users the differences between the two boards are most likely not measurable. There are probably few users that truly understand the capabilities of GTL tuning and Clock Crossing settings the DFI BIOS provides.