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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Saturday 29 January 2011 13:29:53 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>> Hi list! |
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>> I'm thinking about building a new media PC and wanted to use an ASUS |
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>> M4A88T-M/USB3 mainboard (link: [1]). Any objections to this? |
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> I wouldn't buy an Asus board at the moment, thanks to their crappyness. |
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> I bought a GA-880GA-UD3H 4 weeks ago. It works. |
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> rtl8111d/e lan chip |
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> usb3 |
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> lots of pcie slots. |
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> note: you don't have to care about the realtek suffices. 8111d/e/whatever... |
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> they just work |
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That mobo is a nice one. Lots of good stuff. If I recall correctly it |
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has the latest SATA too. The 6Gbs speed that is. Mine has 3Gbs. |
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I read somewhere that the current line up of Gigabyte mobos are the |
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highest rated. It used to be Abit and ASUS but we all know how these |
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things change. There was another one that was highly rated a good long |
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while back, especially with Linux users, but I can't recall the brand |
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now. ASRock or something? Maybe? |
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I looked into ASUS before my build and switched to Gigabyte after some |
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research. About the only thing I was settled on when I started was a |
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Nvidia based video card. The rest was open to changes. I do wish I had |
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got the 6 core CPU now tho. That is my only regret. Still happy tho. |
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This new rig is easily 7 or 8 times faster all the way around. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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