Asus boards look lovely, especially fancy going micro ATX - but no old school PCI slots anymore? Perhaps my faithful Creative X-Fi has finally reached end of life... I'll miss ya buddy
I only just got rid of mine a couple months ago too!
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Asus boards look lovely, especially fancy going micro ATX - but no old school PCI slots anymore? Perhaps my faithful Creative X-Fi has finally reached end of life... I'll miss ya buddy
I only just got rid of mine a couple months ago too!
The Giga have PCI slots. ASUS nope!!!
The Giga have PCI slots. ASUS nope!!!
Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H. Seems like a decent board with good features and I'm liking the design!
How would 4.5Ghz - 5Ghz: 4770K compare to 4.5Ghz: 3960X?
In what scenario?
The 4770K of that frequency would beat the 3960X in everything apart from applications that take advantage of the extra cores.
However, it may be a different situation with IvyBridge-E, we don't know yet.
General PC programs, video encoding, and gaming?
Yeah that's the thing, do I wait for Ivy - E and throw in an expensive upgrade to my 3960X or do I sell my current rig build a 4770K / Z87 combo and pocket the change?
Hmm
Depends what chip you go for surely? If you wait for Ivy-E you've only got to sell the 3960X and get an Ivy-E chip or throw in a hundred or two and get the higher Ivy-E chip.
If you're encoding and speed is important to you then the extra cores are a no-brainer, that's 4 more threads than Haswell, or 8 more if they do release an 8 core version (at a cost though ).
Asus boards look lovely, especially fancy going micro ATX - but no old school PCI slots anymore? Perhaps my faithful Creative X-Fi has finally reached end of life... I'll miss ya buddy
I will either get the gold one or the rog. Depending how much better the rog is at overclocking I may go for rog as long as it is below £170.
I am hoping for a decent Gigabyte M-ATX board for about £100-£120.
Not seen anything yet though.
The ROG boards are developed by a totally different team to any other of the boards ASUS manu. They always clock better and the bios is always more mature as they are designed and tweaked by the best clockers around.
Pricing is competitive on the OC mate and its a great board. I have helped with it myself. The bios is rocking for Overclocking with great memory clocking and BLK.