Greg Sevart wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j maccraw
>> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:20 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [H] QX9650 & Phenom 9500 thoughts
>>
>> Got a heads up on what's good in X38 boards that
are
>> DDR2? Frackers are damn
>> expensive at over $250, never mind the $300+ ones,
so
>> I want to choose right.
>
> Unless you just need that second full x16 PCIe slot,
might as well go P35.
> Much cheaper, and largely the same chipset.
Performance, at least, is nearly
> identically under DDR2.
Well with lack of SLI support & interest in using a
8800GT I could skip the
second x16 slot by using X35 but don't want to lock
myself in since I will
likely not be buying another mobo for 3+ year again.
Currently still using my
a7n8x XP 2800+ setup w/ a 850XT happily but want more
horsepower.
>
>
>> Was going to try & track down the disco'd
GA-680i-DQ6
>> until I read the bad press
>> on 680i's SATA problems from last year combined
with
>> trouble now on newer CPU's.
>> Of course loosing SLI option in the process, but
no
>> likely to use it anyway.
>>
>
> I had a GA-N680SLI-DQ6. Sold it a month or two later
at a 40% loss. The 680i
> had such great promise in terms of absolute
features, but I grew so tired of
> its general flakiness (and it wasn't just that
board--I had tried a couple
> other 680i designs, including a reference eVGA). I'm
now running much the
> same hardware on a P35-based board, and this is
quite possibly the most
> solid machine I've ever used as a primary
workstation---and all this on
> pre-SP1 64-bit Vista. That's saying something. :)
I read that, then I read it varies from board to board
on the same model from
same vendors. Then you read CPU mag & they recomend
that gigabyte 680i board as
"best of 2007"???
All I can hope for is a discount on a Asus made X38 to
popup.
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