Which one is the best.

evzonas · 29 Jul 2008 at 22:19

Hello

I am planning to buy a new motherboard and i am a little confused about which motherboard to buy.
I am thinking of Asus Striker 2 extreme and Asus P5N64 WS PRO.

Please tell me which one is the best ,and which one do u suggest me to buy.

Regards
Mike

platinum87 · 30 Jul 2008 at 00:31

why have you made another thread with exactly the same name

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17902368

dont expect people to tell you which one is better because they dont know how you will be using it

easyrider · 30 Jul 2008 at 01:10

Neither of them

Darg · 30 Jul 2008 at 02:23

Okay, when you ask for help there are things we need to know.

Firstly, what components do you already have.

Secondly, what budget do you have for the rest of the PC.

Thirdly, what is the main uses this PC will have.

Once you tell us that we can help you.

evzonas · 30 Jul 2008 at 12:15

I did not buy anything yet.And my budjet is 2500 euros.

Mike

Bikerz · 30 Jul 2008 at 12:32

Thats about £1500 guys. Why dont you look at *** premade systems thread that someone has in this forum

Pilky01 · 30 Jul 2008 at 12:54

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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail £175.99
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Lian-Li PC-V2010B Aluminium Full Tower - Black Lian-Li PC-V2010B Aluminium Full Tower - Black £146.99
(£172.71) £146.99
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Thermaltake ToughPower 850W Modular Power Supply Thermaltake ToughPower 850W Modular Power Supply £89.99
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(£105.74)
Gainward ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail Gainward ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £144.99
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(£340.72)
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Darg · 30 Jul 2008 at 16:30

The above spec looks pretty decent. If you want to save a little then you could go with the 7200 or 8400. To be honest if you're gaming quad core gives very little advantage over a similiarly clocked dual core and more often then not the dual cores can clock higher.

Also maybe look at the slightly cheaper Asus P5Q Pro, I can't see anything on the deluxe that really warrants the extra £20-30.

Pilky01 · 30 Jul 2008 at 19:04

Darg said:
Also maybe look at the slightly cheaper Asus P5Q Pro, I can't see anything on the deluxe that really warrants the extra £20-30.

16 power phases. Stack cool. Asus express gate is ran of an SSD.

Darg · 31 Jul 2008 at 13:26

qwerty321 said:
16 power phases. Stack cool. Asus express gate is ran of an SSD.

Given that we were running fine with 3 phase power not long ago I can't really see the benefit of 16 over 8 but each to their own. The express gate is also available on the cheaper models.