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Help with motherboard selection (i7-930)

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Ok guys, I'm really confused at which motherboard I should be focusing on. I'm looking to build an i7-930 system and I was set with a GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard but I read a fairly high volume of complaints that the board was DOA, or having issues fairly early on.

I'm also eyeballing the ASUS P6X58D-E LGA While the reviews are all positive, they're only 5 of them.

Then there's the venerable intel motherboard


All of the motherboards that I mentioned are nearly at the same price point of 200 bucks.

My usage is such that I'll not be looking to use SLI, light to little over-clocking and almost no gaming. Its primarily going to be used for work, vmware (linux and osx), photoshop, adobe lightroom and the ubiquitous surfing/email/office apps.

Quality and compatibility is high on my list, I'll be using both win7 and fedora as the host OS in a dual boot configuration. the gigabyte MB seems to have all the features I'd like and then some, the Asus seems to be a "safer" option and then perhaps the intel possibly being the safest though I did see some negative comments on newegg for that MB as well.

Any insight, advice or recommendations will be greatly appreciated.

Motherboard Master

Hi.

The ASUS mobo is one of the best mobos that u can get, BUT u probably don't use it at the max power because u don't want OC, Crossfire and another stuffs that this mobo have.

The best mobo price/performance/reliability is Gigabyte. U don't need buy a expensive mobo if u don't plan use it at the max power.

Thanks,
Price aside since all three of what I referenced are near the same price, which model will provide the best quality/reliability and compatibility?

I will plan on doing some OCing but initially I'll be keeping that to a minimum. I'm leaning towards the asus only because newegg is showing a fair amount of negative reviews for the gigabyte model.

The ASUS P6X58D-E is the one I'm now leaning towards, the only concern if you want to call it that is the lack of depth for reviews - only a handful. Still, I have a better feeling for the ASUS.
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