the giga board was what i was initially going to get. But i ended up finding a good deal on this MSI. It was under LN2 at one time and carried a 965XE to 5.4ghz. But i am not happy with it as far as overclocking goes. It has a great layout, love it for that and its a stable board. Im gonna hold off for the EVGA X58 Classified so i can run tri-sli at full 16x. Next week will be interesting though to see how 3 core 216 260's run on the MSI board being that 1 slot is only 4x.