Quote Originally Posted by sierra_bound View Post
If the question is for me, I have neither board nor CPU. But I have both ASUS and Gigabyte crunchers. They each have their pluses and minuses. Legit Reviews tested the ASUS P867 (non-PRO). It's priced about the same as the UD3P and overclocked very well. Plus, it has UEFI. It's probably the board I will get. I say "probably" because I have to visit Fry's tomorrow to see if it's in stock.

The Deluxe board overclocked about the same and costs more. You're basically paying for more bells and whistles. The board I get doesn't need SLI or much of anything else. I will probably use an Ebay-bought VGA card which will consume next to no power.

The UD3P is probably a nicer-looking board. But I really don't care what the board I get looks like, as long as it crunches well.
One item not considered is Giga's customer service and presence on the forum (they were even nice enough to donate some boards to the team before.) When I was having issues with my A0 westmeres over clocking on a UD3 I was able to post about it here and send a PM and a in a few days I got a link for a beta bios that has worked great. That won me over, I would rather have the P67-UD3 (I have about 14 or so GB x58s ) anyday which looks like an excellent cruncher board and the UD5 and UD7 being the best of the best in a high featured board