To be fair Rebel EFI works rather well, I tried it on 3 different Gigabyte motherboards and worked well. Only problem I couldn't get the network working with a 64 bit kernel. Yes I bought 3 and yes it ties it up to the motherboard but for me its education. I had no luck with Empire EFI from 1.1 to 1.8. In the end I wanted everything working with a 64 bit kernel so I did the vanilla install.