Both are good.
ASUS offers DIGI+ vrm, it's the pros of a digital vrm combined with the pros of a analog vrm. So that is different than the Gigabyte board. Dont know if it really is better.
You can install a second psu but you can better get one monster psu to power both cards.
If you do it the best thing you could do is to put the gfx and mobo on the same psu because thats going to be more stable
Are you sure you connected the bracket to the right connectors on the motherboard? If you connect the bracket to the USB 2.0 connector it wont work as USB 3.0
If a lot of them a crushed you won't be able to repair it, but if it's only one you could always try to bend it back. OR get the same board somwhere on EBay.
More phases does not mean better overclocking. The Rampage III Extreme has 'only' 8 phases and it holds the record for X58. It depends on how the motherboard manufacturer implemented the VRM.
Gigabyte always uses a lot of phases while ASUS uses less. Generally Asus is better when it comes to...
If you really want to go with the P67 go for the P67A-UD4. You won't need the 16 Phase VRM because you don't overclock.
What kind of networking do you do generally? You probably won't need the 2G ethernet.
The best thing you can do is go for a H67 motherboard because they are cheaper and...
All the current Gigabyte P67 boards still have a 32-bit bios.
I think you will probably need a rev. 2.0 board for the EFI support.
But what is so important about EFI? Its just the same as the old bios except for a GUI which (in my opinion) isn't very useful.
It varies from board to board. My personal experiences with Asus are good. Currently I own a R3E which is awesome but you dont really need it unless you do some serious overclocking.
I did a lot of builds with Gigabyte and never had problems with their boards. Usually they are good quality. So...
MOBO - Gigabyte P67 Mobo --> no pricing yet (as far as i know)
CPU - Intel I5 2500K -> $216 per 1Ku --> $220/230 depending on where you buy it (Do you do a lot of heavy rendering? If yes than you could better go for a I7 2600K = $317 per 1Ku so $320/330) you really need to buy a K version...
S1155 natively only supports a total of one X16 slot. With a Lucid or Nvidia 200 chip you will be able to run dual X16 with only 2/3% of performance loss compared to real dual X16. (exactly the same situation as with S1156)
But why would you pay more for a fake dual x16 board when dual x8...
The main advantage of SB is the high stock frequency and the high turbo boost. When S1156 and S1155 are OC'ed to the same level and with turbo disabled there wont be a big difference in clock per clock performance.
Sure S1155 will be faster clock per clock but not significantly
S1155 will not...
I have never seen this before. One of my friends once burnt his 4 pin cpu power plug.It turned out that not all of the pins of the auxiliary cpu power plug made contact.
This is just a crappy vrm i guess. And it should be covered by waranty
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