Do you have any specific demands? Personally I like the Gigabyte X58 UD3R as entry board, and it's a good overclocker too.
ASRock X58 Extreme
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- The Asus looks quite nice, but it's expensive.
- The Bloodrage boards are missing firewire (meaning I'd need to buy another card to support it, which means I'll need 3 slots open in addition to SLI).
- The eVGA board sacrifices the PCI slot when using SLI (which means my X-FI card would be useless) and also blocks the PCI-E 1x slot no matter what. But, it's pretty, lol.
- The ASRock seems to be receiving good reviews again, but the recent wave of RMA's are freaking me out. The price is very obtainable though.
So, I guess my main concern is how much better the Asus board is compared to the ASRock. Does anyone know what chip they use for Firewire? If one uses a Texas Instruments chip, that might be the winner by default. (All firewire Audio Interfaces prefer those chips... otherwise I may run into compatibility issues, which will force me to buy a Firewire card as well).
(Oh, and thank's for the recommendations
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Originally Posted by turk-fx http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/...ds/1923_1.html read the review above. It goes head to head with $400 motherboards. Msi has so many problems, Foxconn Bloodrage and Bloodrage GTI(basically same with bloodrage without waterblock, Nb dice pot and nb cooling fan). I owned all of the I7 motherboards. I would say 1-) Asus P6T deluxe 2-) Foxconn Bloodrage 3-) Evga X58 SLI LE 4-) Asrock X58 Extreme Of course chart is price-performance wise. And gigabyte has Vdroop issue. |
- The Asus looks quite nice, but it's expensive.
- The Bloodrage boards are missing firewire (meaning I'd need to buy another card to support it, which means I'll need 3 slots open in addition to SLI).
- The eVGA board sacrifices the PCI slot when using SLI (which means my X-FI card would be useless) and also blocks the PCI-E 1x slot no matter what. But, it's pretty, lol.
- The ASRock seems to be receiving good reviews again, but the recent wave of RMA's are freaking me out. The price is very obtainable though.
So, I guess my main concern is how much better the Asus board is compared to the ASRock. Does anyone know what chip they use for Firewire? If one uses a Texas Instruments chip, that might be the winner by default. (All firewire Audio Interfaces prefer those chips... otherwise I may run into compatibility issues, which will force me to buy a Firewire card as well).
(Oh, and thank's for the recommendations
i think the oc palm is an external overclocking device
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Apparently the V2 removed the SAS drive (because it had problems too)
Edit: He also mentioned that it allows for 24Ghz of memory, get dual gigabit ethernet, and I read that it uses a VIA firewire chipset.... All good except for that VIA chipset. Then again, the board I'm using now has a VIA chip and it's doing ok. Time will tell.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8p...-motherbo_tech
Originally Posted by Anish i think the oc palm is an external overclocking device |
Edit: He also mentioned that it allows for 24Ghz of memory, get dual gigabit ethernet, and I read that it uses a VIA firewire chipset.... All good except for that VIA chipset. Then again, the board I'm using now has a VIA chip and it's doing ok. Time will tell.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8p...-motherbo_tech
OK, I think it's settled. I just watched a video of the Sweetwater Creation Station being unboxed, and in it..... the Manual for an Asus P6T Deluxe V2. Surprise, Surprise...
http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/video.asp?ID=3
So, that either means that they've tested that particular VIA Chip, or they have an firewire card installed.... we'll see.
EDIT: I found a second video. It looks like the firewire card is a mini, meaning it's not really needed (unless they're totally ******ed, but I think they know their stuff).
It's actually kinda creepy how close their rig is to what I came up with. The Processor, Motherboard, and CPU cooler are all what I was leaning towards.
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The only difference being that I'll have much more potent video cards in mine, and I won't have a rack mounted case (at least not yet).
http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/video.asp?ID=3
So, that either means that they've tested that particular VIA Chip, or they have an firewire card installed.... we'll see.
EDIT: I found a second video. It looks like the firewire card is a mini, meaning it's not really needed (unless they're totally ******ed, but I think they know their stuff).
It's actually kinda creepy how close their rig is to what I came up with. The Processor, Motherboard, and CPU cooler are all what I was leaning towards.
The only difference being that I'll have much more potent video cards in mine, and I won't have a rack mounted case (at least not yet).
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