I agree with the Asus statement, they are great boards. Anytime there is a PC build at work, the IT Department uses Asus boards. (otherwise its HP workstations all the way).

I'll still back Gigabyte boards though. They served me very well for many years. This was just some bad luck.

Did it just die, or smoke came from the vents?  Last I remember you had the overheating licked.

• What happened was that my Gigabyte board was a micro ATX with onboard video. At the time I was on the fence with what video card to go with so I went with that particualr board to get me by until I decided.

The onboard video (chip) was ATI and I started having BSOD's with the cause being the ATI chip. It got more and more frequent until one day....everything froze...it eventually went all BSOD...but what I didn't know was it had also seized my CPU fan...and within 30 seconds I could literally smell burning electronics filling the air. I leaped for the switch on my power supply, but it was all far, far too late.

Motherboard was dead, CPU was dead. I'm in the process of RMA-ing them both (fingers crossed I get both replaced)

But, yeah, I did and still do have the Quad CPU heat problem licked. I had bought a more modern thermal paste and replaced the stock CPU fan with a giant but quiet Zalman. Makes a massive difference.

Now I have an Asus M3N78 Mobo with a very nicely powered Geforce GTX 260 video card.  ;o)

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