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Done with Asus and AMD, bring on Intel.....

Revolution

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Finally had enough of my Asus board (Phenom 2 x4 955 BE) and its limited OC abilities (though Asus say differently...pah) when it comes to CPU and Memory, plus the fact that when searching the web for a better board to have a better OC, lots are saying go 1155 and an I5 2500 3.3GHz.....

So, with you luvverly lot being so clued-up on your Intel rigs I am wanting to know whats a good CPU and high end board that will allow good stats, 990 and good audio, going SSD soon and defo going for another GTX560ti to SLI (@16x/16x) .. will my 16GB of memory be transferable etc etc.

Heavily into Skyrim and Arkham City at the moment so dont want much in `fps` drops, (not getting different gpu`s) :p

An idea to give now is on Skyrim is that everywhere gives me 60fps running on Ultra... apart from..so far..Markarth and a couple of other Cities where it drops down to 25/30fps.

Just want that extra ... ooph!! that an Intel rig might give.

Was thinking z68, Gigagyte UD5 or UD7 ?? or equivalent, £150-£170 board price ?? or do I not need to go that far.

Any feedback, good or bad is welcome, no flames etc.. :D

Ta a lot..

Chris.
 
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Asus boards on the 1155 platform are awesome.

I get an easy 4.5Ghz out of the cheapest base model P8P67 and it has a fully fledged UEFI.

99.9% of onboard audio is trash and can be bested with a sub £30 dedicated soundcard. Do not buy a motherboard on it's audio prowess (or lack thereof)
 
Can recommend the Asus P8Z68-V Pro/Gen3, it really is a cracking board. Been so impressed with mine so far. CPU wise for gaming, just get a 2500k and clock it up to 4.5ghz :)
 
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I don't know what they're like nowadays with the new Intel CPUs however Gigabyte have always been fantastic for me, used them from my E6300 onwards and they are very user friendly and clock well.

Currently using a Gigabyte board with my 1090 Phenom and have no complaints thus far :)
 
I have heard a lot of people having issues with Asus boards so I keep away from them, I love Gigabyte boards though never had a problem with one ever. I did a build for a relative and bought a MSI board which again I have heard people having issues with (not the specific board just MSI in general) but it has so far been a cracking board.

Stoner81.
 
I got the MSI GD65 P67 board for my 2500K build lst year and it was one of the best motherboards I think I have ever used, the build, features and looks were all good. The BIOS was easy, it had one of those UEFI interfaces.

In the past I have used Gigabyte, ASUS, ABIT and ChainTech and MSI ones of late have been magnitudes better, with the exception of my beloved ABIT KT7A-Raid as that was my first build :)
 
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with the exception of my beloved ABIT KT7A-Raid as that was my first build :)
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I hear you there, used that very board on my first ever build with a Thunderbird 1.4GHz.

Absolutely fantastic board, until it died after a few years for no real reason :o

(not contradicting myself there, honest ;))
 
loads of the old ABIT boards were fantastic, speaking of such where the hell did ABIT go, they still exist? :confused:
 
Just done a BIOS reset and started again with my clocks, without an OC on my RAM, I have just reached on multiplier alone (19.5) 3.9GHz @ 1.5v on Prime95 for 3 hours @ 51c MAX temp, 30c IDLE temp,(AIR) think thats ok for now, will leave the RAM as is, got 16GB of it anyway (on offer at the time...so...well it would have been rude not to..;) ) and its happy at 1333 @ 9/9/9/24//34 on 1.5v anyway, will wait untill I get a better OC board that will run 1600 RAM properly.

Thanks for the input and it gives me choices, on a further note how do you rate ASROCK 990fx extreme 3/4 motherboards for my AMD CPU, looks like I have a decent 955BE so might take advantage of this for the time being.

Or do I just get an AM3+ UD5/UD7...and get Intel kit in a few months...

Ta.
 
ASROCK boards tend to be good these days, use one myself and it hasn't gave me any troubles, plus seems a decent clocker as well. ;)
 
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