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On Sunday 30 January 2011 10:24:17 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> 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... they just work |
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> Nice looking MB, good price. |
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> Only caveat I see is the same problem I had with an Intel MB where 90 |
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> degree SATA outputs didn't work well for me in a tight HTPC case I did |
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> recently. In a standard case no problems. |
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> - Mark |
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my case is 'plus' size so no problems there ;) |
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After the Asus disaster I needed a board that: |
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has lots of sata ports |
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has lots of usb |
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has at least 2 pci ports |
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is f*cking stable. |
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Gigabyte delivered. It might be slower - I can't feel or see a difference but |
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it is stable. Stability trumps speed. Every time. |
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