The Gigabyte EP45-T Extreme is an excellent board, even with its DDR3 timing shortcomings.It has great I/O expandability, and an excellent feature set; it was quite stable during testing – and I never had to remove the CMOS battery no matter how I tried to overclock it! I liked all the copper heatsinks and heatpipes too, and the debug LED and on-board switches are great when tweaking. Don’t put too much weight on the good, but less than stellar DDR3 performance – the performance is “good enough” that you can only tell the shortcomings of the P45 on some benchmarks, and it does not greatly affect benchmarks; frankly the easy overclockability and feature set outweigh the slight performance loss on the memory side of things. Read more @ Neoseeker.

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