Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 or Asus P5K Deluxe????

[Krejcimaan]

I am chomping at the bit to upgrade to P35 chipset MB and am looking at Asus P5K Deluxe and Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 and need some advise from people who have experience with these boards. I have been following reviews and forums for awhile on these boards and at the beginning they both sounded great. I have always been an Asus fan and was many time soo close to pushing the buy now button on the Asus, but then it seems that in the forums I keep hearing more and more that this board is plauged with certain problems. Is it just from people who don't understand what they are doing or is this a problematic board. I have never used Gigabyte but understand they have an excellent rep, product and good support.
So how is the GA-P35-DQ6 in terms of ease of setup and stability? And how is the P5K Deluxe in the same terms. Following is a list of hardware I plan on using with my MB-

MB-???
E6600
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2X1GB) PC2 6400 DDR2 800
Arctic Freezer 7 Pro or Zalman CNPS9500
SeaSonic S12 SS-650HT 650 Watt
Asus EN8800GTS 640MB
Plextor PX-760A PATA
ATI TV Wonder 650 PCI
CoolerMaster Stacker or Mystique

Any and all input would greatly be appreciated.

The Krejcimaan

 

[orion23]

I've heard many good things about the Abit P35 and the Gigabyte P35 boards.

The Asus P5K deluxe is more popular but many complain about SATA issues and Bios flashing problems.

I owned 2 P5K deluxe boards and both have been great to me. I have also had very good luck with Asus support so most of my boards have been Asus(s?) for that reason.

Visit Xtremesystems.org for more information on all P35 boards!

 

[Andrewcc]

I recently built my first rig around the P5K Deluxe board, and I can't think of anything that would have been easier. My biggest issue was seating the miserable Intel heatsink (you're going to skip that thrill I see). It posted right out of the box with everything plugged in and I haven't had a single issue with it yet. I don't know if you're planning to overclock anything or not, but it does that really easily too. I had my e6600 up to 3.0 the day after I built the thing (It's back at stock now because hot room + no a/c + stock heatsink=bad). Admittedly I haven't flashed the BIOS yet, so I can't speak to the problems that Orion speaks of, though you hear BIOS misflash horror stories about everything. As for the SATA issues, I think they're luck of the draw, because I've got 2 SATA HD's and a SATA DVD burner that all work great.

Obviously I've never had a Gigabyte product, but I hear good things about them too, and the DQ6 is theoretically the top of the line, so I don't think you can go wrong either way....but I do love my Asus.

P5K Deluxe
e6600
2 GB DDR2 1000 Ballistix
X800XL