I will give you the criteria that decided me to take this MSI P67 GD65:
* SLI: I wanted to show an Nvidia SLI configuration. MSI, the GD55 and GD45 lower references fail to do so.
* Tips magazine PC Hardware / PC Update: these reference magazines gave the MSI GD65 winner in the middle price bracket, the top one being the Asus Deluxe version. The Asus are more expensive, probably a little better made and better BIOS, but the price difference seems excessive, especially in overclocking Sandy Bridge is not dependent on the motherboard, including its stages of supply. It is therefore not necessary to ruin a motherboard for Sandy Bridge processor.
* MSI vs Gigabyte vs Asus: Asus, I talked about above. I find them quite expensive Gigabyte P67 without understanding their contributions.
I am satisfied with my MSI. The installation went smoothly, with a cooler Sythe Yasya. The configuration-based Core i7 2600K, 4 x 2 GB DDR3 Ripjaws G-Skill, 2 x Gigabyte GTX460 in SLI work without history, with three hard drives with SSD OCZ Vertex 2 and a blu-ray burner LG.
In short, a motherboard without history, but it is precisely this primarily demand that this component! Still, I have the version the chipset buggy before the B3 revision, so I ask MSI exchange to be quiet in the future.