The midrange to high end motherboard market is filled with
products. These 'high-midrange' boards are very popular among enthusiasts for its abundance of features, performance, and a not-too-out-of-the-world price tags. Sure, boards like the Asus Striker II NSE are really good, but not
everyone can justify all the extra fancy features for the price. As major
motherboard companies love to compete in this area, a significant array of
boards are made based on the collection of latest chipsets -- for example,
both Gigabyte and Asus have a ton of Intel P45 chipset based motherboards
ranging from just over $100 all the way to over $250. Today, we'll take a
look at Gigabyte's high end P45 board -- the Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 -- as the name suggests, it has Gigabyte's Dynamic Energy Saver, 100% solid state
capacitors, and "Quad Bios, Quad Cooling, Quad E-SATA2, Quad Triple Phase,
Quad-Core Optimized, Quad DDR2 Slots". We've already taken a look at the
quad-quad-quad-quad-quad-quad Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 a few months back. The Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 is loaded with features and carrying a $250 price tag at press time, so let's see how this beast steps up against the competition.

http://aphnetworks.com/reviews/gigabyte_ep45_dq6