I went through your post, and its sad to hear that the board went kaput so early! Unfortunately i was about to order the components from a guy on techenclave, but he does not have any gigabyte boards. Is it ok if i go for the default intel one[I am not an overclocker like u
]? Can u suggest any other boards, he gave me the options of MSI and XFX, but i hear XFX board is also not that good..