i7 920 j0 mobo compatabilty

[Acuum]

Hi,

My Tpower mother board decided to die on my this week.
I'm looking to replace it with something not too expensive.

Am I right in thinking I have to get a x58 spec'd board?

I found

Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 microATX Motherboard @ £66.98 inc VAT

which lists support for i7 and it's FAR cheaper than anything i can find for my i7 - did they change the socket type, or is it backwards compatible?


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I would like a mobo which has:
6 RAM slots is a must.
4+ SATA ports
1 at least SATA 6GB (as will get an ssd soon)
usb 3.0

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-429-AS
has good reviews.

any thoughts or advice? wont be going crazy with an OC maybe 3.4 to 3.6 from my i7-920 as I got before.

Might pay a little more if it had a high quality sound card, might decide to get an after market expansion bay card.



Thanks!
A

 

[Senture]

The motherboard you have listed is for socket 1156, the i7 920 you have is socket 1366 so that's a no go I'm afraid. I have the same CPU as you running in one of these
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-235-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1692
It has all the features you're after and allow you to hit 4Ghz with that chip so long as you have sufficient cooling

There is a slightly cheaper board, but I'm not sure if it has all the features you're after.

 

[Surveyor]

Remember that any SATA 3 (6Gbps) ports on an X58 motherboard will be an add on controller from someone like Marvell as X58 doesn't support SATA 3 ports.

The Marvell ports are unlikely to perform as well as native SATA 3 ports.

 

[Speed]

The Marvell ports are unlikely to perform as well as native SATA 3 ports.

That is the understatement of the year, they perform rubbish, especially with SSDs. I purchased an X58 board specifically for them and found that with Raid 0 C300s (which are proper SATA 3 SSDs) the Intel SATA 2 controller gave better performance than the Marvell SATA 3 controller!