No, you're wrong
http://www.dailywireless.com/press-r...aquire-102306/
http://www.atheros.com/news/attansic.html
The Gigabyte is solid as a rock, you have a lot of users that can confirm that. Your friends most likely got HW rev 1 which is being replaced by HW rev 3.3
I would personally go for a ViiV platform (due to stability) but they arent OC friendly.
//Danne