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what's a good mobo for a new gaming system?

post #1 of 15
12/3/07 at 10:03pm
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What would you recommend?

Is this a good board : Asus P5E Motherboard - Intel X38, Socket 775, ATX, Audio, PCI Express 2.0, Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB 2.0, Firewire, Serial ATA, RAID

Any comments? Should I be looking out for a particular version of the board or anything like that?

this is a link for it on tigerdirect, where i saw the specs
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...MP=OTC-INKTOMI
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post #2 of 15
12/3/07 at 10:05pm
Are you going to:

1. Overclock CPU?
2. Sli?
3. Crossfire?
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post #3 of 15
12/4/07 at 1:06am
gigabyte p35-ds4, solid board!
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post #4 of 15
12/4/07 at 4:09am
Whats your budget?
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post #5 of 15
12/4/07 at 8:38pm
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Originally Posted by Buck47 View Post
Are you going to:

1. Overclock CPU?
2. Sli?
3. Crossfire?
sli most likely, was thinking bout buying the second gpu later though. don't really overclock but i wouldn't mind keeping that option open
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post #6 of 15
12/4/07 at 9:56pm
Then my advice is to wait for the 780 (or 790) chipset. The current 680i does not support the Yorkfield-based Penryn's.

There are some leaks out about the ASUS Striker II Extreme - Google it...

EVGA will surely have their own rendition as well.
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post #7 of 15
12/4/07 at 11:47pm
Does the 780/790 support PCI 2.0? pretty oblivious to the Nvidia board line
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post #8 of 15
12/5/07 at 12:06am
The ASUS P5E is an Intel X38/DDR2 board and doesn't support SLi, only CrossFire. I hear it's a nice board for CrossFire or a single nVidia card. It will support both Wolfdale and Yorkfield CPUs and does have the new slot wiring for PCIe 2.0

It's only been readily available a coupla weeks and understand the BIOS is still a titch immature, but getting better daily.

http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?mo...11&l3=572&l4=0



Zoid
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post #9 of 15
12/5/07 at 12:32am
I'd also double check the memory requirements for that board. Make sure it is not limited to DDR3 memory (unless that's what you want). Oops - just checked, it's DDR2. Must be the P5E Deluxe or Premium that is DDR3 only.
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post #10 of 15
12/5/07 at 4:18am
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Originally Posted by pdonket View Post
Does the 780/790 support PCI 2.0? pretty oblivious to the Nvidia board line
Yeah it supports PCI 2.0 The 790i is DDR3 only though.
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post #11 of 15
12/5/07 at 8:42am
Oh, then send that baby back to hell
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post #12 of 15
12/6/07 at 9:34pm
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Originally Posted by Boyd View Post
The ASUS P5E is an Intel X38/DDR2 board and doesn't support SLi, only CrossFire. I hear it's a nice board for CrossFire or a single nVidia card. It will support both Wolfdale and Yorkfield CPUs and does have the new slot wiring for PCIe 2.0

It's only been readily available a coupla weeks and understand the BIOS is still a titch immature, but getting better daily.

http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?mo...11&l3=572&l4=0



Zoid
for some reason i didn't see that it doesn't suport SLI, it's a good thing you pointed that out. I blame it on my allergy medication .

Is crossfire better than SLI? I am kinda biased towards nvidia based cards though...
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post #13 of 15
12/6/07 at 9:55pm
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Originally Posted by GBrilliantQ View Post
Whats your budget?
below $300. hopefully around $250?
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post #14 of 15
12/7/07 at 9:41pm
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Originally Posted by almmohd View Post
for some reason i didn't see that it doesn't suport SLI, it's a good thing you pointed that out. I blame it on my allergy medication .

Is crossfire better than SLI? I am kinda biased towards nvidia based cards though...
Not sure on SLI vs. Crossfire as for performance addition, however Nvidia cards currently are quite a bit farther out on top in terms of performance and seems they will continue on like that for at least another half year.
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post #15 of 15
12/10/07 at 2:22pm
High end (Big Budget) Nvidia = SLI
Bang For Buck (middle Budget) Toss Up (ATI=CrossFire or Nvidia=SLI although ATI=CrossFire seems to have a points lead)
Low End (likes the ocassional games) a real mess of players and you're not into dual cards...
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