advice for motherboard purchase

http://uk.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=URA00A6u0GrUqHiH&templete=2

OR

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products...oard&ProductID=2951&ProductName=GA-EP45-UD3LR

what do you suggest?? im leaning towards performance and reliability than features!!

thnx for your time

 

come on anyone?

 

Gigabyte by far as asus equal is the P5Q not the se2.

 

i thought SE2 was better than the plain P5Q

 

Nope its a cut down version.

Anything se/sr/vm ect is cut down. Turbo/pro/deluxe is the good stuff.

 

can you see the differences between these two?

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2955

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2898

i cant seem to find it!

 

EP45T supports DDR3 and EP45 supports DDR2

 

If you don't wanna change your ram i suggest you buy EP45. BTW, whats wrong with your P5Q? I think P5Q is a decent mobo when it comes to performance and reliability.

 

i know its a very descent mobo. during a routine maintenance i spilled mx-2 tim in the socket. tried to clean it pins got messed up and pc wasnt booting up. straighten the pins out a bit using small scissors and know pc boots up. but mx-2 is still on the bottom of the socket and if i dont manage to clean it using an electrical contact cleaner i will replace the motherboard. i cannot risk frying the cpu when i intend to keep it a little bit more until i move to core ix.

 

So basically its damaged pins. EP45 is what i would go with if i didn't have money to buy ddr3 ram.

 

The EP45-UD3 series boards are excellent overclockers, particularly the UD3R and the UD3P. The EP45-DS3 series boards are not as good as the UD3's.