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alot of UD3P fanbois here, because a board requires a little more effort in tweaking doesnt make it a crap board it just means the user is out of there league, what do you learn without any effort???
No I havent jump'd on the giga bandwagon and see no real reason too, in all honesty the DFI will kick the out of the other 2 boards and no I dont own that one ethier, the MIIF would be a contender and my choice if the bios would mature and all the options actually work thats why I have 2 for sale...gigabyte fanbois flame on.

So...if the BIOS on the MIIF would mature and offered settings that actually worked it would be a better board?

The MIIF is a great board, I don't think anybody's calling it crap. It looks nice, it's well built, and with a better BIOS it'd really compete. But for the price it's asking the performance is underwhelming, especially since the features that drive up the price of the board don't work well.

I mean, I have a P5Q-Deluxe and it runs 480FSB without breaking a sweat. The MIIF doesn't really go far past that with a quad...with the exception of dual PCIe LAN, a useless sound card, a different cooler and an ROG sticker it's identical to the P5Q-Deluxe, which is a little more than half the price of the MIIF. They have the same chipset, VRMs, solid caps, 8x+8x Crossfire support, RAID controller, etc. People who own the MIIF will tell you the same thing, which is why there are so many more P5Q-Deluxe/Pro owners than MIIF owners. ASUS has made a few decent ROG boards...the Rampage Extreme seems to be one of the best boards for both quads and duals and holds numerous SuperPi dual core records - and was used for quite a few quad FSB records as well.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...20II%20formula MIIF - $225
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813136053 P45-T2RS+ - $115
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&Tpk=EP45-UD3P EP45-UD3P -$115 AMIR

I mean, $225 for a board with an immature BIOS and lots of quirks backed by one of the worst customer service teams in the industry, or $115 for a mature BIOS and a stream of people running over 500FSB on quads, backed by a better-than-average service team? The DFI is a decent board too...I mean, a lot of people have weird problems with DFI and a good number of people have to RMA their brand-new boards two or three times before it finally works well, but once they get a working board it's fantastic. Everyone's said the DFI is great for RAM tweaking and I don't think anyone but the biggest DFI hater can doubt its results with high-FSB dual cores, but the UD3P has consistently proven itself the best LGA775 DDR2 quad-core overclocking board.

I don't want to call it a no-brainer, but...the UD3P is just a better option. And to call people fanboys for believing that...well, it's just in poor taste.