new mobo for bulldozer

edgedemon

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Ok, with the hopefully soon to be released bulldozer and BF3 coming up soon, it is upgrade time.
Initially I was thinking the gigabyte UD7, but I have seen some bad reviews and after years of gigabyte mobo's I fancy changing to Asus as their 990FX series look so damn sexy with a feature set to match..

Having never bought an Asus mobo before, what is the general feeling here for those considering a bulldozer mobo - sabertooth or crosshair as their doesn't seem to be much difference between the two if you take the add on pcie-x card away from the crosshair V?

So would you go Sabertooth or Crosshair V and why??
 
I think the general consensus is that if you're buying now get Sandy Bridge.

If you're thinking of Bulldozer then you should wait and see if it's any good.
 
edgedemon said:
Ok, with the hopefully soon to be released bulldozer and BF3 coming up soon, it is upgrade time.
Initially I was thinking the gigabyte UD7, but I have seen some bad reviews and after years of gigabyte mobo's I fancy changing to Asus as their 990FX series look so damn sexy with a feature set to match..

Having never bought an Asus mobo before, what is the general feeling here for those considering a bulldozer mobo - sabertooth or crosshair as their doesn't seem to be much difference between the two if you take the add on pcie-x card away from the crosshair V?

So would you go Sabertooth or Crosshair V and why??
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Everybody has their own reasons which board they prefer,I prefer Sabertooth because it has 5 year warranty( and uses very high quality components) nice blue UEFI bios rather then red on Crossfire V,plus it has everything I need without being bloated with stuff I won't use plus very good reviews like this one http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1639/1/ .

Basically main difference between Sabertooth and Crossfire V is Crossfire has Intel Lan ,in real world you won't notice difference between the two ie Realtek on Saber , plus it has software based X-FI sound(still uses Realtek codec however).

You should not have long to wait for BD benchmarks and AM3+ boards will still be here ,so you would be advise to wait and see how well BD does.
 
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No, you are right, Im gonna wait for the benchies, but as long as they are OK, I plan on buying the day they are out..
It looks like the Crosshair supports faster oc'd RAM as well as a different SATA configuration, but I do like the durability of the sabertooth
 
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