I remember having weird BSODs after screen locking windows 7 shortly after it was released. It didn't happen often enough for me to fuss with my computer to try to fix it, but now I don't have the issue.
So my first reaction would be to run updates (as you indicated no updates had been applied).
Here is an article from December which has data on return rates.
http://www.behardware.com/articles/810-6/components-returns-rates.html
Intel is sporting 0.59% return rate vs competitors 2-3% return rate.
That's about the best information for measuring 'reliability.'
The main difference between h67 and h61 is that h61 doesn't support sata 6 gb/s. There are also a couple less USB connections and pcie lanes. If you don't care about any of that, then save a few bucks and grab h61.
I have read of people getting os x to work with gigabyte boards - specifically p67-ud4-b3.
This is not based off anything official though, so take with a grain of salt.
The main diffence between vanilla and pro is the ability to SLI on the pro (plus an extra pci-e 2.0 slot and an extra esata connection).
So if you think you might want to go SLI in the future, then you would want the pro. Both support crossfire. Both have the same power phases.
If price is...
Higher capacity makes for greater difference than higher speed - especially since you only have 4GB. RAM by nature is already fast, so increasing the quantity to reduce system reliability on a paging file is going to be far more noticeable. I would recommend upgrading to 8 over replacing your...
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