Asus motherboard? -- never again!

[Jose]

On 3/30/2010 5:50 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:06:25PM -0400, Jose wrote:
>> Mmmm, that what I thought, but did not know about the intel chipset bug.
>
> It isn't a bug.  It was designed with 32 address lines.  It's a limitation
> of the design and entirely intensional.
>
>> Not meaning to kidnap the topic, What would be a good model to buy these
>> days, I am also shopping for a new motherboard, and was thinking of a
>> intel- core 7 or quadcore as they are becoming cheaper, any suggestions?
>
> Well last year I built a machine for my wife using an Asus P6T with a
> Core i7 920 D1 stepping and 3 x 2GB G.skill DDR3 10666 ram.
>
> Very happy with the result so far.
>
> A much cheaper option that is available now but wasn't when I built that
> machine is a Core i7 using one of the P55 chipsets rather than the rather
> expensive X58, using dual channel rather than tripple channel memory.
> Tripple channel probably really isn't doing any real benefit until you
> move to the 6 core (rather than 4 core) version of the i7.  You can get
> those now of course, assuming you thinkg $1300 for a CPU is reasonable.
>
> The P7P55D line looks nice at the moment.  Some have dual gigabit
> ethernet, some have one.  Some can run SLI some can't.  Some have 2 PCI
> slots some have 3, with a similar but inverse change in number of PCI
> express slots.  Some have firewire.  Some (the -E versions it seems)
> have USB3 and SATA 6Gbps ports available (not convinced either is that
> big a deal yet, but still nice).  Prices seem to range from $135 to
> about $235 depending on the features.
>
> A core i7 860 (quad core + hyper threading at 2.8GHz) goes for about $300.
> A core i5 750 (quad core at 2.67GHz) goes for about $225.
> A core i5 660 (dual core + hyper threading at 3.33Ghz) also goes for
> about $225.  Slightly more clock speed, but less cores.  Depends on the
> work load which makes more sense.
>
> Add whatever video card you like and a case and a decent power supply,
> and some disks and maybe 2 x 2GB or 4 x 2GB ram, and you are all set.
> 4GB sticks still seem hard to find.  Check ram on the motherboard
> compatibility list just to be sure.  Never buy DDR3 ram that requires
> more than 1.65V if using an intel core i3/i5/i7 CPU.
>
> If you just want cheap, you could drop to a core i3 with onboard video,
> but I tend to ignore that option.
>
Hi Lennart,

Thanks for the great advice.

one question tough, you mentioned you tend to ignore the onboard video, 
why?, I see all these motherboards advertising nvidia or ATI video 
chips, that means you get an actual lower nvidia card included or it's 
just for compatibility?

Thanks again

Jose

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