Asus vs Gigabyte (1366)

[joopjoop]

Which one should I buy:
Asus P6T Green with Asus Triton 81 cooler (i7 920,OCZ 6GB 1600Hz)or
Gigabyte EX 58-DS4 with Scythe Mugen 2 cooler (i7 920,OCZ 6GB 1600Hz)

 

[Shadow703793]

1. What is your budget?

2. What do you plan to do with it? ie. Tri SLI/CrossFire?

 

[joopjoop]

I've been offered them at the same price, currently No crossfire envisaged, potentially later but max 2 cards

 

[Shadow703793]

Well in that case, I would go with the P6T as that has 3 PCIe sockets so you could Tri-SLI if needed down the road.

 

[sailer]

My choice would be the ASUS P6T, as its been shown to have a better BIOS at the moment, giving more stability and options. That may change in the future, but for the moment, ASUS has the lead in my opinion.

 

[Albertwacca]

Well in that case, I would go with the P6T as that has 3 PCIe sockets so you could Tri-SLI if needed down the road.

I have the ASUS, and if you have double slot cooler GPUS, you cannot go TRI-SLI in this Mobo because you don´t have any free space between the second and third PCI-X x16 slots. It has only 6 SATA and ports and one IDE, if you want more drives to attach you must look for other MoBo (I have this problem 'cause i have a 3 disk RAID 0 array, an a 1TB drive, another 2 Drive RAID 0 array, and a IDE DVD-RW drive ). Otherwise it's a good Mobo, is a good OC and i don´t have any issue with it.