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Best budget X58 board?

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Phantomaniac

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Just hoping to get some opinions to narrow down my selection. So far I'm looking at the MSI X58 Platinum, the Gigabyte EX58-DS4, and the Asus P6T. Stability in overclocking is the most important thing to me. Crossfire/SLI capabilities are not a big concern. It would be great if anyone had hands-on experience with any of these boards.
 
I will have hands-on experience on the MSI X58 Platinum... soon... I expect to receive a couple for testing in the next week or two.
 
The MSI works well and has been easy to overclock. 920 3.6ghz with intel heatsink, setting only vcore +.05 and PCI 37mhz lock. It only supports Crossfire unless you flash the bios for the SLI model, which causes stability problems, but it's pretty certain that a hacking the standard bios to enable SLI is possible. I think the only real disadvantage of the board compared to the others mentioned are 2 pci-e 16x slots vs 3, which may not be relevant at all.
 
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