DFI are NOT god. There are plenty of other boards that are far easier to get on with (note: much more stable and reliable) and offer performance that is not exactly off the pace with a DFI. I will never touch a DFI board ever again after the NF2 and NF4 hassles I had with DFI boards, POS wasn't even stable with stock settings. Throw the exact same hardware on any other manufacturers board though and no problems. Can't comment on a Gigabyte board as the last one I had used a VIA KT400 chipset However I can vouch for Asus P45 boards (currently I got 9.5GB\s bandwidth with a measly 3.2GHz @ x8 400FSB) TPower, in spite of its horrible BIOS, and even the MSI P45 boards.