why asus cusl2 & why not gigabyte GA-6OXM7E?

RayEarth

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Many people have been reviewing the Asus cusl2 & it's not really available yet, I know asus is known for their quality products, but what about Gigabyte? I thought Gigabyte was right up there with Asus, Soyo & Abit? I see the Gigabyte GA-6OXM7E 815E model availble for purchase for only $145 & their specs. page is more professional than Asus & mwave, where I brought my soyo from is selling it now & it's in stock: http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/doc/9951.html
I see one person do a review for the Asus cusl2 & then everyone else starts reviewing it too, I find it pretty useless to have so many site review the same thing, it's like "hey my site got a review of the asus cusl2, now my site should be popular because i have a review of this hot product no can buy here in the US". Many asus users say to often asus is the best while the rest just don't compare, I have used many motherboard like a no namebrand for my 1st cpu, than from there went to, Abit,DFI,Epox,Asus & finally Soyo, & i feel soyo is my best motherboard to date even though my soyo7vca & asus p3v4x used the same chipset, I have noticed that on my asus p3v4x(even with the latest bios updates) had wrong temp readings/the asus k7m that i build for people at work have no cpu temp reading & i don't even remember about the asus k7v i installed for people because all asus motherboard had some minor problem with temp readings as i can remember, & then just a few days a user here post they had bad temp readings on the cusl2, it's been awhile & asus, the top motherboard maker, still has temp reading problems. Now it's hard to see why there's hardly or no review on this gigabyte GA-6OXM7E when it's already available to the public. Too many sites want to be popular by reviewing asus products. Too many beginners just know one name brand & pretend to know a lot, like buying a tv, many would say sony is the best because it's a well known brand & in the computer industry, many beginners go with asus & 3dfx because they are well known, some people i talk to still think 3dfx is 1# & when i said the geforce2 is the best now from nvidia, they ask me what nvidia is? I don't remember if this is the 1st or 2nd site to do a review on the cusl2 but after this site did it, a few days later I don't even bother reading any other reviews on it, just like what happened to winME review.
 

mechBgon

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You forgot to mention the most important part... the nifty BLUE color! :D Seriously, though, that looks like a nice mobo, I wonder if it offers voltage tweaks on the CPU. If not, it might not be the board for overclockers, and we don't have the option to use a slocket adapter this time. Any idea whether voltage tweaks are possible?
 

IceStorm

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It has a &quot;Magic Booster&quot; jumper for a 10% voltage increase over standard Vcore (that's from the manual). It also has an &quot;overvoltage&quot; jumper for the DIMMs, but does not specify the DIMM voltage increase.

It's not as feature-packed as the Asus board. I have had three Asus boards. None has given me problems. My Soyos? Problems. My Abit SE6? Problems. My MSI? Eh, issues.

I'll wait for the Asus board.