hi there, as people on here that ive spoken to since i joined know ive been waiting for ivy bridge to come out before building a system that will hopefully last me a while. I recently got the first part of this (a dell u2412m monitor that i was advised by people on here to go for - im loving it so far, but its only hooked up to this old system )
I am upgrading from an athlon 5200 2.61 ghz, so im thinking any processor will be an upgrade (im very much a novice), and i was hoping ivybridge would be the correct choice (im still in two minds wether this is the case or not? or would sandbridge be better?), but my main concern is choosing a motherboard to go with it
i was looking at spending around 150 on the motherboard (170 if need be), and i was thinking about getting the gigabyte one as from what ive read on these forums thats been highlighted as the "best" one, but then someone showed me a video earlier on youtube of the new asus motherboards and a feature they have whereby it automatically overclocks and boosts it for you, the reason this feature would be good for me is ive never overclocked on my life, and although i keep thinking i may dabble in the future, if the motherboard would do it for me perhaps i wouldnt need to worry about breaking the processor after i spent so much on it, is this "auto overclock" feature unique to asus or do gigabyte etc have similar things that work just aswell?
if someone could answer my questions id much appreciate it,
I am upgrading from an athlon 5200 2.61 ghz, so im thinking any processor will be an upgrade (im very much a novice), and i was hoping ivybridge would be the correct choice (im still in two minds wether this is the case or not? or would sandbridge be better?), but my main concern is choosing a motherboard to go with it
i was looking at spending around 150 on the motherboard (170 if need be), and i was thinking about getting the gigabyte one as from what ive read on these forums thats been highlighted as the "best" one, but then someone showed me a video earlier on youtube of the new asus motherboards and a feature they have whereby it automatically overclocks and boosts it for you, the reason this feature would be good for me is ive never overclocked on my life, and although i keep thinking i may dabble in the future, if the motherboard would do it for me perhaps i wouldnt need to worry about breaking the processor after i spent so much on it, is this "auto overclock" feature unique to asus or do gigabyte etc have similar things that work just aswell?
if someone could answer my questions id much appreciate it,
