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Also most of the other manufacturers cheap out on components and end up using parts that draw too much power for example for most third party boards to achieve EuP/ErP compliance you have to enable it in the BIOS which actually means you loose WOL which is really not acceptable.
This really sucks, Intel boards tend to be rock solid and have the best warranty support in the UK, the following is true
Smaller systems integrator;-
For gold Intel partners you have an advanced replacement swap out warranty
In a warranty case you will get exactly the same model as a...
Actually the GB boards are not the same they are actually not UEFI at all they are crusty old awrad bios with a dirty EFI boot hack in.
Although they are starting to transit over to a proper AMI UEFI solution and have moved some 6 series boards over already (mainly some new H61 models) as...
8 Dimms will stress the memory controller more and limit overclocking so that is why you see the high end (read: targeted at overclcokers) boards only having 4 Dimms.