| epsilon72 said: I'm essentially looking for one that's just reliable and not too expensive. I wouldn't mind flashing bios. I haven't done much research into chipsets yet; I should do that. The mobo that I bookmarked for further review has a 770 chipset. I don't need onboard video. All of my retirement computers (don't have any yet) will probably just turn into extra Linux boxes. edit: I'm searching the major vendors for their 790 chipset offerings. I was really confused at first, as I thought it was an nForce chipset. Some really quick googling shows that they use AHCI for their SATA stuff, which is supported under linux.Hmm. Most of the 780's and 790's have crossfire support, which I don't want to pay extra for. I'd rather get SLI or just a single slot board. Here's a cheaper one though. *D'oh!* It has onboard video. I wonder if that would cause any problems with an nvidia card? |
edit#2: it probably won't.The chipsets AFAIK - SB600 is quite old, SB700 and 750 are the newer ones and I think I heard that the sb750 which will be coming with newer 790gx boards are better at overclocking than the earlier models. Also consider that some boards can't take a Phenom 9850, 140tdp. They are specced to take only up to 125 watt phenoms, will that be a problem?
Some important considerations though... If you're using USB file transfer a lot or you don't want file copying/networking to take up too much cpu time then you should look into what south bridge you're being offered. Also I took a look at the SLI options and you're very limited, they are either badly specced boards or very expensive.
Tease.
