Has anyone been able to confirm that the Gigabyte boards only support ACPI1.0b? It's such an old specification that it seems weird Gigabyte wouldn't have updated their ACPI support, especially as they use the same basic BIOS versions as the other manufacturers... Or, maybe they just choose to pass ...

With al the quality issues mentioned here concerning Asus boards I have been looking at some Intel boards. I found this Intel DP43TF (P43) board, with the ATX power connector in the right place and no unnecessary crap features. You have no software features like EPU6 or the gigabyte thing, and yes y...

I also found this in the 'Features removed from Windows Vista' Wikipedia page: Motherboard support for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is required for Windows Vista; as a result, older motherboards supporting only Advanced Power Management do not work as support for the following H...

I found this in a word document from the Micro$oft site:

PPM technologies are defined in the ACPI specification and are divided into three categories:
• Processor performance states (ACPI “P statesâ€

The Gigabyte P43 board (GA-EP43-DS3L) is only ACPI 1.0b compliant (I mailed Gigabyte and they confirmed this), not ACPI 3.0a like the Asus boards. Wouldn't this give problems in Vista? Does ACPI version matter? What difference does this mean in practice? Because not being able to run Vista would be...

And you can't honestly compare the quality of a Ford Fiesta with a higher end car, just because the warranty is "ok". There's a reason why older, well maintained Volvos and Mercedes cars have rolled over 1,000,000KM, while you never hear of any Ford achieving that feat. Sure. You can indeed do more...

You would think that less complex boards (P5Q Pro and down) would have less problems because there are less components and options to cause them. The P5Q and Pro versions are less complex, but they're also made with lower quality components. The P5Q-E and up versions use Marvell gigabit network car...

Oy... I've had nothing but nightmares with the P5Q Pro. I had one for about three days, after which point it started continuously giving me the "BIOS Checksum Error" message on startup. No matter what BIOS image file I tried to use to restore it, it wouldn't work. After about 5 or 6 tries, the syst...

The only problem with the board that I can see is the terrible ATX12V plug placement. Other than that, you can save a bit of money going with it... Thanks for the info nafets. I also noticed the placement of the ATX power connector, that's actually the only reason I might buy a Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3...

Im starting to doubt that now though, they released 8.7 last week and despite all the talk about the 4800 powerplay it was not fixed or changed in any way. So it could well be as low as we;re going to get. I think so to, tough I really hoped they would fix it in the driver because 80°C at idle is ...

I wonder if the P43 consumes less power than the P45 chipset. The P45 uses a bit more power than the P35 mobos, wich is strange as the P45 is 65nm en the P35 is 90 nm. Also they always test the power consumption of the Deluxe versions of the P45 motherboards and never the power consumption of a 'nor...

@ canthearyou I'm also considering the P5Q or the P5QL-E for my next PC. The only thing that's REALLY bothering me is the placement of the ATX power connector just above the PCIe 16x slot (instead of on the right side). Doesn't this cause problems for the airflow? Is cable management more difficult ...