Suppose the bad transistor short in the B2 chip was causing the 5V instability which a previous post claimed to be the cause of the cold boot issue. Asus was able to compensate for this due to thier more advanced power handling. Hopefully for Gigabyte the B3 will solve the issue, if it does from what I can tell the Gigabytes will be the boards to own for a long life reliable 24/7 OC.

I personally like the hybrid bios, history, 3rd part support possibilities, I mean that new bios on the Asus is so new it could take a long time to debug and who wants a bios that people don't know how to modify? My current motherboard was kept up to date even after the Abit stopped supported it, zzz kept tweaking the bios and updating the firmware. That's an important thing to consider if you are buying a motherboard to last 5 years or more.