Recent content by sumedik

Very bad. Total wastage of money. Someone please make a list of such horrendous mobos where one or more "crucial" features are missing and share with everybody.

Oops sorry, by "display port" I meant onboard display connector, that is something through which I can connect my monitor to the mobo, without having to purchase a discreet graphics card for that very purpose. Does todays mobo's still have the "blue" port to connect monitors? Or the small...

No preference. Can you please elaborate on this? Brilliant point. haven't looked at it from this angle at all. I feel it is important to get a mobo that supports ALL features of Z68, like usage of IGP, via display ports. Please address this: Can you add more than 1 discreet graphics card...

Well The requirements are such: CPU: Most probably i5 2500(K would not be needed if on H67) I would use the onboard graphics card certainly. In future I might go for a discreet graphics card, but not more than 1 discreet graphics card would be added to the system. In this regard, can you add...

Someone help please...it is not easy making a decision from 10-20 mobos available for each of the top brands.

Alright....so the top 3 H67 chipset based motherboards would be...????

Thanks for the replies!! Well I found the answers of the things I was looking for. Now it is a toss up between these: In 1 TB segment: WD Caviar Blue WD10EALX (SATA 6 Gb/s,7200RPM,32 MB cache,500gb platter(2/4)) Vs Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ (SATA 3.0Gbps,7200RPM, 32MB cache,500gb platter(2/4))...

Well let us put aside overclocking for a second(after all turbo boost is like an internal overclocking mechanism). Other than the possibility to overclock, what are the other added features we are getting in Z68 mobos which are NOT there in H67 mobos. 1 is the ability to use SSD as cache for...

Where do you get these benchmarks from? And yes, I am looking at 500GB drives coz I want something having a single platter as well. Do not care at all about the noise and temperature though.

here are some extracts from the Samsung website. Different models, same specs :( Does anyone know the differences?: Spinpoint HE502IJ 500G 7200 SATA 3.0Gbps 16MB Spinpoint HD502HJ 500G 7200 SATA 3.0Gbps 16MB Spinpoint HA501IJ 500G 7200...

Thanks. I forgot to mention, I need a 3.5 inch HDD. It is for a desktop. What is your take on Samsung Spinpoint people?

Hello, Well the Samsung site is too confusing and Western Digital is too diverse. Which models would you suggest for a new 500GB SATA HDD? Based on forum discussions which I have one through, it has to be from SAMSUNG or WESTERN DIGITAL. The HDD would be used as primary booting device, has to...

Hello, In the other thread I asked about newer HDD options, so I thought I would srare the status of the current one here. Recently my 6 year old Samsung PATA Spin Point 80GB HDD crashed. For sometime I had ignored the warnings given by SMART(BIOS). On boot up, it shows BOOT DISK FAILURE...

Well yea a few local brands.....but a known brand I came across is Kingston. Yes the knowledge of dealers is something I do not have faith in. Moreover they always vouch for products which they have in stock. The hardware market in India is very interesting. It is the flea market scene :) So...

Well i live in India. Out there due the price of old PATA HDD(160 or 250GB) is equal to that of 500GB SATA 2 HDD due to it being rare as it is obsolete. so it kind of pinches to spend the same amount of money to get something which is obsolete and has lesser capacity. IDE converter sounds ok I...