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Gomp
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 Posted: Sat, 9th Oct 2010 01:07 Post subject: |
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Sabertooth X58 seems to be great ASUS board, cheap aswell.
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Oct 2010 05:50 Post subject: |
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If you wanna pay for a half assed hit or miss overpriced piece of shit, you go asus.
They used to be an amazing company who made amazing boards, now their failure rate is about as high as their sales rate. Join a board with hell of a lot computer enthusiasts like overclock.net and you'll see what I mean.
Gigabyte <3 I've yet to have a dud
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Oct 2010 06:53 Post subject: |
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| Gomp wrote: | So ive come up with a halfway setup:
Mobo:
ASUS P6X58D Premium, X58, Socket-1366
GPU:
EVGA GeForce GTX 480 1536MB PhysX CUDA
CPU:
Intel Core™ i7 Quad Processor i7-930
PSU:
Corsair HX 750W
Ram:
TBA.
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If youre going to overclock that i7, get a ASUS rog board (rampage III) or an EVGA x58 (SLI3, FTW3 or classified). These boards will overclock like beasts
ASUS Maximus XII Formula | Core i9 10900k @ 5.2Ghz | 32GB G.Skill DDR4 4200Mhz | EVGA RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra Hydro Copper | ASUS ROG PG35VQ |
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Oct 2010 16:17 Post subject: |
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That ASUS board is quite decent (the "OMGFAIL" argument from SpykeZ applies to all brands btw; you just don't notice until it happens to you), but the EVGA, Gigabyte and MSI boards in that price class deal better with overclocking, I'd definitely recommend looking at one of them. Especially GB and MSI are good overclockers for their price; EVGA do just as well, but you pay a premium because it's EVGA.
What are you going to use this system for? An i7 is pointless unless you plan to do a lot of encoding and/or 3D rendering, for games you still want to overclock it to 4GHz since 6 out of 8 threads will be unused in 99% of all games 
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Gomp
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Oct 2010 19:53 Post subject: |
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I never had any problems on ASUS boards, always had ASUS, and going for them in future aswell.
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Oct 2010 20:41 Post subject: |
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| Gomp wrote: | Thx for all the replys, ill take a look at the MSI and Gb boards.
Im planning to use it for basicly everything, my current system sux so i cant really do much with it.
I dont upgrade that often and want a setup that lasts for a bit  |
Define "a bit" 
For some of my relatives that basically means a decade, while for me that's 2 years tops
I honestly don't see the full power of any i7 being used in games in the next couple of years; quad cores have been around for half a decade, and they're not being used yet, let alone the i7's with 8 logical cores. If you do a fair bit of encoding and 3D rendering then the 930 is by far the best choice, but if it's mostly gaming you can basically save yourself a good €150 by just going for an 1156 or AM3 based platform and not lose any performance
You should at least wait with the 480 to be honest, as it's bound to drop in price in the next couple of months. Give it a week or 2 to see what AMD's new cards are like; if they do as well as the rumours say they do, then NVIDIA has to drop prices to be competitive
@ Breezer: yeah but that's my whole point. SpykeZ has clearly had some bad experiences with ASUS, which led to him stumbling on threads about faulty boards. Same goes for any brand though, that's the nature of electronics - you only see the bad experiences, you don't see the thousands of people who don't have a single problem with these things. SpykeZ loves Gigabyte because he's never had one fail, I've never had a one not failing. Doesn't mean I'm gonna recommend against one with that as my reason, because they've got some very popular boards right now so they must be doing something right.
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Oct 2010 23:53 Post subject: |
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About the i5 vs i7, their performance is similar in games, but if he has the money for i7 just let him buy it. I would pick i7 over i5 if i were buying processor, fuck the savings. More future proof aswell.
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Oct 2010 23:55 Post subject: |
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| pwerelds wrote: | That ASUS board is quite decent (the "OMGFAIL" argument from SpykeZ applies to all brands btw; you just don't notice until it happens to you), but the EVGA, Gigabyte and MSI boards in that price class deal better with overclocking, I'd definitely recommend looking at one of them. Especially GB and MSI are good overclockers for their price; EVGA do just as well, but you pay a premium because it's EVGA.
What are you going to use this system for? An i7 is pointless unless you plan to do a lot of encoding and/or 3D rendering, for games you still want to overclock it to 4GHz since 6 out of 8 threads will be unused in 99% of all games |
of course it happens to all board it happens to anything in computer hardware, it just so happens Asus is gaining a more failure rate than any other brand. You'd have to be a fanboy to not realize this. I used to only use asus back when it was a guarantee they'd work. Theres a reason less and less people are using them unless it's one of their mucho grande boards |
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Oct 2010 00:08 Post subject: |
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@Breezer_
I know, I'm just making sure he's not spending the money because he thinks it's needed. Some of us still spend our money with consideration; I can afford an i7-980X and couple it with the most overpriced boards/memory and a pair of 480's, doesn't mean I want to
Besides, there's no point in futureproofing beyond 3 years, and like I said, I highly doubt we'll see quads used properly within the next 2
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Gomp
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Oct 2010 01:01 Post subject: |
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| Gomp wrote: |
And yes i do have the money for an i7  |
Mobo:
ASUS RAMPAGE III Extreme, X58, Socket-1366
Ram:
G.SKill/OCZ Reaper/Corsair Dominator GT, tripple channel DDR3 1600
ASUS Maximus XII Formula | Core i9 10900k @ 5.2Ghz | 32GB G.Skill DDR4 4200Mhz | EVGA RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra Hydro Copper | ASUS ROG PG35VQ |
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