x79 mobos

Kobi · 20 Mar 2013 at 23:02

Hey guys, I'm thinking of going x79. Needing help on choosing a motherboard. Will be oc'ing down the line. I take it 8 ram slots are better down the line? I won't be doing anything too heavy, little encoding here and there.

Kobi · 21 Mar 2013 at 12:22

Awesome cheers guys. Thought about waiting for Haswell, but a 6 core should future proof me enough. Plus by the looks of it, these socket 2011 cpus are beasts!

Kobi · 21 Mar 2013 at 14:11

Actually this might seem as a massive lol to some, but I'm gonna go down the amd route. I have a big soft spot for amd.

Kobi · 21 Mar 2013 at 19:07

ubersonic said:
You would need to have to consider them

Haha, yeah i know, the 3930 is just overkill for what i need, but would be happy with the 6 cores. Plus it'll be old news soon enough. the 3770k - while great and while i cant see quad core being fazed out within the next 6 years, i'd be a annoyed that it'll be old news come Haswell. Least the bonus of amd is steamroller is still on AM3. I only have a soft spot for amd because i used to build my first...5-6 pc's with amd processors. The terrible Phemon 1 made me change to intel on my next build. I had the i5 760 for about a month then SB came out, i later sold my pc and built an 2500k, then a month later IB came out haha. So i dont really wanna buy Intel right now, least with the 3930 its 6 cores. peace of mind i guess.

I'm not buying till April anyway. thats when i sell my laptop. So i'm still on the fence.

EDIT: nevermind, i see ivy-e is on the cards(8pack said on another thread haha) Looks like its back to x79, maybe quad core for now then 6 core later on.