Okay well how about some facts?????????

Fact #1: Yes, I like GIGABYTE, but I also have a lot of respect for ASUS products, a lot, just no respect for a lot of the people who work for ASUS. I have respect for any good hardware and BIOS.

Fact #2: I have the original ASUS presentation, it is laughable.

Fact #3: GIGABYTE's Ultra Durable 5 really is one of a kind, Anyone wants to fight this please explain your case.

Fact #4 MLCCs are EXTREMELY CHEAP: http://www.digikey.com/product-detai...5-2-ND/2050024 Unit price in USD if someone buy 15,000 which is the lowest amount, the total per unit MLCC is $0.004 that means that if GIGABYTE were to fill all of their bottom capacitors on the bottom of the Z77X-UD5H and Z77X-UD3H it woudl be around 20 pieces. How about more facts, 20x0.004 is $0.08 OR 8(Eight)(Ocho) CENTS!!!! In Canada you can't even buy 20 of them, as Canada just did away with their penny and we are talking pennies. Now $0.004 per unit is the most expensive in the list in my link, if you buy more which a company like GIGABYTE who actually makes their own boards would, then they would cost significantly less, also this is a product sold in the US while the capacitors are prob made in Asia and cost less there.

Fact #5: Right now as we speak GIGABYTE has the frequency WR with a 6-Phase Z77X-UD3H, right here is the 3770K Frequency WORLD RECORD: http://hwbot.org/submission/2289196_...0k_7089.33_mhz They also have the 3570K WR right here on the Z77X-UP5 TH: http://hwbot.org/submission/2302977_...0k_6894.85_mhz. Guess those tiny high frequency capacitors don't make a difference?

Fact #6 Don't put down a vendor who is trying to an actually improving their VRM quality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or else you will praise one who tries to cheat you, such as ASRock, and then you will get boards like the Z77 Extreme4 which has D-PAK MOSFETs, if that is what you want then continue on with biased unfounded generalizations. Then you got ASRock advertising an Intersil ISL6367 as a Digital PWM, they are also advertising STMicro PWm as Digital as well, there is just no line for asrock to cross as they have crossed so much of it. Anyways that should be news not this BS> ASRock has more moeny to throw around tho to keep people's mouths shut.

Fact #7: I have compared all the VRMs on every motherboard right here, hours and hours of research, I ask vendors to come forth and dispute:
http://sinhardware.com/images/vrm.jpg if something is wrong please let me know. But you can clearly see that GIGABYTe started using very high quality stuff lately.

I will admit that the first round of GIGABYTE X79 boards weren't the same quality as these new Z77 boards, GIGABYTE's Z77 have the frequency WR for a reason. I have many Z77 boards, almost all of the giga lineup I also have boards from evga and asus, all top of the line. They are all high quality, but you cannot say the gigabyte is lower in quality, especially when a 6-phase VRM on the UD3H kicks ass. GIGABYTE Z77 is very sound with the hardware, GB prob just stopped supporting OBR, and so he turns on them to attack back until they support him again. That is how it goes in this world, i really hate it too. If you have far enough reach companies become scared of you.

EVERY VRM is different, there is different amount of copper in GB's PCBs compared to others they use different chokes and different MOSFETs as well as different PWM. Then you also have the fact that they DO USE a lot of MLCC, just in the socket are populated first before those under the socket.

ASRock is crap. Also 7GHz doesn't mean anything Dan, everyone can hit 7G, it is those few mhz above which are hard to hit.

Yea i am defending GB, because in this case, this marketing crap from ASUS or ASRock(possibly ASRock adapted it from ASUS, we will see if we see the same slides come up on other sites). Someone needs to defend their quality as they really do put a lot of it in, anyone who should take any crap for quality is ASRock.