... asus mobos are one of the best... O.oOriginally Posted by renhunt
got a p5wdh deluxe, it rapes faces.
was told to get a DFI lanparty but they just ain't available here and ordering online wasn't an option.
... asus mobos are one of the best... O.o
got a p5wdh deluxe, it rapes faces.
was told to get a DFI lanparty but they just ain't available here and ordering online wasn't an option.
The choices of motherboards usually relate to what you are doing with it.. when I first purchased mine, I wanted the dual lan (10/100/1000 & 10/100) as their were no dual gigabit ports out at the time. And I wanted the onboard surround sound (5.1) plus the extra USB/Firewire inputs.
This motherboard also supports external hotswap of internal drives through the use of a PCI card. THere is a standard power inverter molex.. so I can take any internal drive, plug it right into the connectors through a hotswap means, and access it without having to shutdown/reboot my computer to recognize it. And also as a package deal, it came with a bunch of bells and whistles which really really helped. Soon I will be upgrading.. possibly to an Intel, or an AMD.. its a tough choice to make right now.. and I'm not going to blow 1500 bucks off a new motherboard/ram/CPU when the next gen chips are right around the corner. :-)
Hmmmm....i understand now...
But still i preffer EpoX..
I guess i was wrong all these years o__O;
I Want to ask a question in this Oppetunity.
Look at my MotherBoard that i have at this moment,Should i buy new 1?
i Ecconomied a lots of money to have an Hyper-Upgrade.
and you guys the Perfect ppl to advise me.
Please help me Choose an hardware to have HIGH performance.
indeed i have the same 1
asus and dfi r the best mobo's there r
as a mather of fact the asus p5b deluxe is the best motherboard for overclocking a c2d
almost all the best results r on that board
Its all in the location buddy :-)
There are lots of different brands on different parts of the world, and osme peopel only have access to certain ones at a decent price.
Looking at the stats of yoru motherboard, it seems like a good purchase.. I've never ever used EpoX in my life though, so I honestly can't recommend getting a better one.. it seems like it should work nicely for you.. Anyone have any information on this brand perchance?
Most games an e6300 is enough to hit ther bottle neck. e6600 is ideal and not the e6700.
And with ATI. It'll cost $600 USD. So him getting it for $400 is already a damn good deal. And with the ATI. It uses about 250w of power where as the 8800GTX uses much less.
Sure it's faster but the 8800 will be more efficient and cheaper.
Not really sure the 8900's will blow way the x2900's. It'll probally be like the 7900GTX vs x1900XTX. Each wins at their own games and this time around there will be equal image quality.
So the winner will be down to efficency. And that's where the 8900s will blow away the x2900's.
Even the 8800's are more efficient then the x2900s and they are just marginally slower.
So you'll have a $550 8900GTX performing the same as the $600 x2900XTX and I know which one I'll go for. The cheaper one that runs cooler.
Though with the dual card setups it'll be a different story. SLI wins hands down.
So I don't expect the $600 x2900XTX2 will be better then the $600 8950GX2.
Actually there is a game out there that makes use of quad cores. =P
Supreme Commander actually does.
And not to mention. With dual threaded apps like the Source engine and the Quake 3 engine there'll be boost if you manually set each one of the thread to run on their own core a side from teh one the OS is using. But then again that's a pain in the ass to do every time you want to play a game. =P
But anyways a faster dual core would be better in gamming anyways then a slower quad core. A x6800 running at 3.6ghz will be much better then a qx6700 running at 3.0-3.2ghz.
Oh yeah. Can't forget about the price drops with the 8900's release.
For under $400 you can get yourself an 8800GTS 640 and for just over $400 you should get yourself a GTX.
But the 8900's will be there to meet the R600's. =P
By the way the MSRP should be as follows:
$600 - 8950GX2, x2900XTX, x2900XTX2
$550 - 8900GTX
$500 - 8900GTX, x2900XT
$450 - 8800GTX
$400 - 8800GTS 640
And as usual it'll probally be $50 less then MSRP online exectp for the top ones.
And there are people that will buy AMD products even though Intel (CPU) or nVidia (AMD) are better.
That's what you call a fan boy. And that's why I am not. I buy the best of the two. =P
So in the end. You'll see tons of DX10 games run better on nVidia since they are the only ones with DX10 cards and games will use features suited to thoes cards.
Another reason why nVidia will perform better especially in DX10.
And about the motherboards (to lazy to qoute and reply to each post).
Epox is a crap brand. They are cheap and used by system builders simply because they are cheap. You don't hear of problems with tehm because most of the people that uses them doesn't even know what a motherboard is.
With DFI, ASUS, Gigabyte, and other big name board. You have people who knows what motherboards are and can report errors when they see them.
So you see. With high end boards there seems to be lots of problems with them but that's only because people know that they are the cause of it. Where as with cheap boards the average owner doesn't even know what a mother board is much less who makes it and cannot report the errors because of it.
NoPeace - out
Yeah, sadly.. Nvidia is going to be lucky only because of that main fact... I really am curious to see how/if microsoft will work with ATI to give them a bit of a boost. The current market between ATI/Nvidia is amazing, and with those two companies going neck and neck and releasing these, its pushing our graphics industry right up into the future. Just think, 3 years ago I was using a GeForce 4 Ti4200 128mb AGP card.. PCI wasnt even out, and I had the top of the line card from back then. Now, a single new-age graphics card could throw a dozen Ti4200's into the garbage if they somehow linked them all up to scale properly :-p
Anyway, hoorah for ATI/Nvidia.. they are doing WONDERS for the PC now, and I 'really' cant wait for the 45nm chips to come out, I hope AMD gets off their asses and follows as well, more cores can be good.. but rush it too fast and there will be a big price/performance issue going on.. and the main problem will be developers writing the code to support more cores, as opposed to fine tuning the dual/quad cores and pushing the MHz out of them as much as they can.. suck the market up for another year ;)
EDIT: <-- For the motherboard reply
Yep, as far as I'm concerened, the first thing I look at is benchmarks and reviews.. Im not worried about peopel getting problems because I am very competent enough to build a computer and make sure it works the first time.. the last time I had a computer beep at me was when I found out I had to throw .2 more volts into my ram to fire it up properly at 4 gigs.. had to plug in only 2 gigs and browse around on the net to figure out jsut what the problem was.. still nto sure what exactly causes it.. but a few extra .'s helped out the problem.. Other then that, if you have the brains, there shouldnt be any problems with the hardware, unless of course its running beta BIOS or there is a problem with the hardware itself.
You sure that was 3 years ago? I remember buying my 9700 Pro back 4 years ago and that was top dog then. =P
But yeah not so long ago it was still AGP. And now look at how far it has come. With GPU setups pushing teraflops of power. Something that up to now only mainframes and supercomputers could do.
Pretty amazing stuff.
Yeah the 45nm's are going to be pretty amazing though... Just immagine the 65nm GPU's and how more efficient and faster they will be. And even the 8800's can support x86 instruction sets. So it's just a matter of time till we use them insetad of CPUs. ;)
Also the 65nm Cell processor is looking to be really awsome. They are stated to run at 6ghz. And they are 8-way CPU's.
The current one running at 3.2ghz is blazing fast just imagine what thoes new ones can do. O.O
Yeah... Notice how all thoes problems are only reported by people with little understanding of the system to begin with. I was cruzing around the evga's forum last night check out what issues the 680i board has. Outside of FSB limit with the quad cores on the early version of the board, the problems where mostly due to human error that can be easily corrected with some time and knowledge.
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