ASUS M4A79XTD EVO vs GIGABYTE GA-MA790XT-UD4P

I prefer this one and I own it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128377

I've had both. In fact 2 Gigabyte boards and both failed on a mild overclock. The PC just turned instant off and would not respond again. The exact same thing happened with the second Gigabyte board. I had both replaced, the second one with the Asus board and all on a X3 720. The Asus is working well with a little more potential for overclocking - I think it's more stable at the higher frequencies, up to 3.7.

I've never had any problems with Gigabyte boards before; then 2 in one month. I wonder if anyone else has experienced something similar...?

Chers,

Mick>

My CPU is a C3 - both Gigabyte boards posted okay and ran for a while with no probs, but then died and showed no signs of life after. I think it was probably a board power component failure. Both boards failed on overclock -I was running at around 3.5GHz and 1.5 V at the time - not too drastic and they should have been up for that. The Asus board has been faultless for several weeks under the same conditions.

My system:
750W PSU
AMD Phenom II 720 x3 (all four core released okay - runs Crysis for hours!)
Spire Thermax II - runs at 3.5GHz on Prime 95 at 41*C, idle at 30*C
4Gig Geil dual 1660 DDR3 memory (8-8-8-24)
GTX 260 graphics

I would like to add that I have had Gigabyte boards in the past that have all performed faultlessly, some for years (and some despite considerable abuse...). I was very surprised at the two boards failing with what seemed like the same fault and wondered if anyone else had had a similar experience.

Cheers,
Mick.