No problem, they do exist. Will just have to go back to search for them.
But don't get me wrong, it is a fine motherboard (the 8IEXP) as long as you don't want to overclock the memory. Overclocking the CPU worked well as long as you used a 1:1 memory ratio and kept your memory speed at 140MHz DDR or below. This gave me a CPU speed of 2520MHz (I have a 1.8A), and the setup was 100% stable (two days on prime95). Many guys would be very happy with this.
The problem is that good memory is unobtainable in this country (South Africa). I have been bottlenecked by bad memory for ages, including on my previous Asus CUSL2. This time I went to a lot of trouble (and costs) to specially import good memory (Corsair XMS 3000C2), only to find that the 8IEXP was now the bottleneck.
I am also irritated by this, because the previous time that I bought a Gigabyte Motherboard (a BX2000 v 1.0), I also had a lot of trouble with it because it couldn't run with a Voodoo3 3000 (standard mode, no overclocking), and Gigabyte's support was a major problem. I only found the cause through 3DFX support (it was the current draw of the video card which could not be handled by the motherboard), and although Gigabyte admitted the problem in the sense that the v1.10 of the board had a fix for it, I could never get any joy out of them, and had to give the board away to someone who was prepared to run it with a simple video card. The Voodoo 3 3000 worked fine on the Asus CUSL2.
Gigabyte have claimed that the 8IEXP is a good O/C board - it clearly is not - but note I regard O/C of the memory as important (however, I am not O/C the memory, because my memory is high spec, it is only a motherboard problem - the 845E chip seems to handle this on other motherboards).
I hate companies that indulge in misleading advertising. And also motherboard reviewers who don't check the claims, and give editors choices to boards that don't deserve it. A simple and basic O/C test by board reviewers (FSB = 133, Memory 3:4, or 4:5) would sort out the good from the bad. The 8IEXP can't do this.
But as a result I don't see a place for this MB in the market. If you don't want to O/C get an Intel D845EBT. It is better quality, cheaper, faster and has the same specs. Else get an Asus or Abit.
But to be fair to you, in spite if the fact that I have not seen a single post of someone with a problem with one stick of Corsair XMS and an Asus P4B533-V, I will only be 100% sure of the situation once I get my P4B533-V. I was supposed to get it on Wednesday, now looks as if it will only be here on Monday.
Guess I will be pretty embarassed if the Asus board has the same problems as the Gigabyte. But I am obviously hoping that the Asus will be significantly better - at this point I have seen no evidence contrary to that belief.
I will look for the Gigabyte posts and will also post my results as soon as I get the P4B533-V.