gigabyte sucks? go asus?!

That's bull crap. Look at the P4S8X and the GA-8SG667 as examples. The P4S8X seems to be unstable with almost any kind of memory faster than PC2100, while the 8SG667 has proven stable with PC3200. The P4S8X seems to crash whenever you put an AGP8x card on it, whereas the 8SG667 is again stable. Now, the only complaints I've heard on the 8SG667 have been that Gigabyte has not released the BIOS revision they promised with vcore adjustments, and that some boards ran the northbridge a little hot. Well, that's a heck of a lot better than a P4S8X that crashes all the time. Gigabyte even released a revision, called the 8SG800, it has the northbridge fan everyone was crying for, not sure about vcore in BIOS though. Anyway, I expect the 8SQ800 series to also be of higher quality than anything Asus has to offer in a SiS chipset. It's almost as though VIA were PAYING Asus to make their SiS boards unstable...hmm.

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I've been running a 7VRXP (Gigabyte) for 5 months and I haven't encountered any problems. I like this board because it's fairly cheap/lots of extras. My only complaint is it won't support 333FSB processors (rev 2.0 and below).

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Asus not only has some trouble plagued boards like were mentioned but their technical and rma procedures are terrible!

NO!! Why do I always pick boards that suck? (yep, used to own an ECS!) [cringe/blush/sob]*

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