Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 vs Asus P6T Deluxe X58

[Grnfinger]

As the title says I'm about to make my mobo purchase and was wondering what everyones opinion on the 2 boards
Planning on a i920 cpu and ram is undecided yet.

[GAR]

I would say go for which ever you find cheaper, both are great boards.

[bowman]

Reviews of recent ASUS boards, both Penryn and this new P6T, look very promising. Personally my current Gigabyte left me wanting. So, I went with the P6T. I expect it'll be here on Wednesday or something like that..

http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15816
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=636

[Grnfinger]

I'm not prepared to sell my kidney for a RampageII Extreme but a few bucks here or there is not a concern, I would like a really solid board, alittle dissapointed with my MIIF the bios support is rather poor.
I'm not looking to set any world records a solid board running my chip at 4.2GHz ( hopefully )
Have seem some gigabyte results but not many from Asus.

Need to decide soon so I can order some ram

[newls1]

I would go with the P6T-DLX for a few reasons: Asus words there bios options much better then gigabyte, EXAMPLE: setting ram voltage in asus bios you have real numbers to look at, setting the same option in a giga board your options look like .0250mv+, and stuff like that. Maybe i'm an idiot, but asus just makes life a little easier. I like asus' Vdroop control in their BIOS's. Not sure if Gigabyte has the same option, but when I set 1.435in my BIOS, in windows im at 1.432! I like asus, and I like gigabyte, if both were in front of me, I would always grab the Asus first though.

[fornowagain]

Having just tried a giga UD3 board the bios is very easy to use, none of those offset voltages. In fact a very good bios, very clear and easy to use. Honestly think they've moved on, I never could get on with the earlier giga boards. And yes the vdroop option is there and easy to use as well. If the UD5 is anything like the UD3 I'm seriously considering one over the Asus, and I've had a lot of those.

[Slovnaft]

EP45 UD3P is perhaps the best board I've ever owned. Gigabyte BIOSes have improved worlds from even a few months ago. I owned X48T-DQ6, and it was certainly a quality board, but the bios was very annoying. the UD3 line restored my faith in gigabyte, srsly, their boards are quality and now their bios kicks ass. EX58UD5 over P6T any day.

[herderien]

asus is a little more expensive, but i've been considering both boards, 16+2 phase, a bios i'm used to, the easy pin connector (i loved it on my P5b) and the fact that they never disapointed me since 486DX2 66 made me leaned to Asus P6T ...but gygabyte is good to

[zlojack]

Which one did you go for, Grn?