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Am 29.01.2011 17:07, schrieb Dale: |
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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. |
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>> 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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Thanks for all the input, Dale and Volker! |
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I think I settle for a GA-880GMA-UD2H ([1]). Basically, it's the little |
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brother of what Volker proposed. I need a Micro-ATX board. Originally, I |
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ruled out all Asrock and Gigabyte boards because because they usually |
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come with 2 PCI slots, 1 PCIe x16 and 1 PCIe x1. I rather want another |
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PCIe 1x instead of the second PCI slot. Asus, Foxconn and MSI offer that. |
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This particular Gigabyte board, however, offers a second PCIe 4x (in a |
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physical x16 slot). I guess that's even better. Although the arrangement |
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on the board will make it dificult to use two larger extension cards in |
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both big PCIe slots. |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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[1] |
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128445&Tpk=GA-880GMA-UD2H |
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