Rated 
Solid choice for today and tomorrow
DDR2 and DDR3 memory support - 45nm CPU support (as of BIOS F6) - Tons of SATA ports
CPU is under-volted - No firewire or Crossfire - Only 1 set of DDR3 slots
Posted Nov 16, 2007 - I got this board as soon as it came out. Off the bat, my e6600 would only clock up to 3.33GHz on "stock voltage" after being at 3.51GHz on an ASUS P5B-E without any voltage adjustments. After paying attention to CPU-Z, I noticed that the CPU voltage was less than 1.35. In fact, until you manually set the voltage in the BIOS to 1.3875, you won't see CPU-Z report 1.35. :( - Aside from that, I really like the features of this board. I've had my Crucial Ballistic DDR2-1066 up as high as 1251MHz with 2.2v (+0.4 in the BIOS) and 5-5-5-12-42-2t. That's just amazing. The board can also run 4 x 1GB sticks at high frequencies without a problem (something I couldn't do on previous 965 chipset boards). - I just upgraded from the F4 to F6 BIOS last night, and Gigabyte did change some things in the tweaking section. I also noticed that if you change CPUs, you're probably going to want to clear the CMOS or you'll end up with an unstable system. - My favorite thing about this motherboard is the PCI-E release "button." For anyone with a long PCI-E graphics card, this thing is a godsend as it's on the back of the slot, where there is almost always plenty of room. Just push it, and your PCI-E card is released from the slot. - Other than that, the layout is good and easy to work with. The board comes with high quality SATA cables with latches, and a nice dual eSATA bracket that just connects to the two color-coded internal SATA ports. - Oh, and one other significant thing...the "Ultra Durable 2" really is a feature -- my power consumption dropped by 17 watts just by switching from the aforementioned P5B-E to this motherboard. :)
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Good board for overclocking.
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