Abit hard when the review sites contradict each other on results and seem to be soley obsessed with overclocking and how they play Crysis.
I think you have to bear in mind what market these reviewers are aiming at - anyone buying a £200 motherboard is highly likely to be interested in overclocking and speed. And generally, at any given price point, there is no difference whatsoever between a couple of motherboards in feature-sets, so the only way to say one is better than another is to establish how well it overclocks (and there are huge differences in this respect) and how fast it is with synthetic benchmarks such as Crysis.
Not really just means you didt read enough about them. If i made a post asking the question which is the best o/c gig x58 board very few will say UD3 most will say UD5/Extreme. Same if i ask whats the all out uber x58 best board for O/C most will say Asus rampage/EVGA...Asking for the best x58 and not giving any other info just means your to lazy to use the search fuction and tbh IMO is the worst thing on these forums that same questions daily ZZZzzz
I'm with both of you on this one. I absolutely despair of people who come on and say 'what motherboard' should I buy? But I still try and help them because they just want an answer to their question as fast as possible with the minimum of effort. And I like answering queries. That's a big part of what I get out of these forums. But most of the reviews are the same stuff over and over again. I reckon I probably spend 2-3 hours a week reading reviews. That's a huge amount of time if you think about it. I recently got an MSI P55 board and within 4 hours I reckon I had pretty much clocked it as hard as it was going to go. After that it was dull, dull, dull. Next! But now if someone has a query on the MSI P55, there is a decent chance I can help them. I can't/don't/won't get that from a review.
The whole point of a chat forum is errrrrrrrrm to chat and discuss a subject is it not ?
If people don't question and discuss a subject to keep it up to date then what use would the seach function be ?
people that post " use search " or " try searching google " is just a lazy excuse to get your post count up.
The whole point of a chat forum
is to discuss stuff, but for regular contributors the whole 'What mobo to get' thing
is a bit dull. There is a certain degree of laziness in posting these threads but I do despair of people who simply say 'I have £200 - what do I buy?' and then people just lump in and recommend what they have, not necessarily what's best for the OP. This thread is an excellent case in point. The OP asked about the UD5-Extreme and the top-end ASUS, but now he's at completely the other end of the market and trying to choose between the XFX or the ASUS P6T. [EDIT]Just noticed not the OP asking about XFX, point is the same though, the thread has evolved[/EDIT]
I'm enjoying the thread, and maybe BigBruiserAl needs to be a fraction more forgiving of the uninitiated?
