So am I the only one that just can't find a mobo that has everything I want? This is a bit of a rant.
ASUS finally released the a8n32 a while back and this board was almost ideal for me because I really wanted a board with nf4 sli x16... but the layout was retarded, furthermore the thermal pipe solution meant it didn't work with the new lian-li cases which i had planned to use (that's only minor though), and possibly more important: even if i wanted it, the stock is so awful i wouldn't have much of a chance of getting one. and then there was all this talk about it destroying cpus though i don't know if that was just rumors. anyway that layout pretty much ruined the board for me, i need to be able to fit a sizeable sound card in there which will be irritating if not impossible.
DFI's look good, except i don't know who the hell came up with the whole lan party motif, it really turns me off from even looking at them, though with the selection i've got now it feels like there's not many other choices. even so DFI still hasn't released a damn x16 board... GRRR!!!
Finally Gigabyte released that one with the intel chipset that could take both crossfire and sli (awesome because ati's next gen should be competitive), that and it used the windtunnel cooling which means i could have used it in my case, and it had the x16 going on... and space for two extra graphic cards if i ever wanted to, though i probably wouldn't. but yeah then i'd have to switch to pentium procs, the board is nice but not that nice.
I just wish that some decent mobo company would release something along the lines of the a8n32 with a practical layout, option of either windtunnel or thermal pipe cooling, with the nf4 sli x16 going on. why can't they just do it?!!!
end of rant.
ASUS finally released the a8n32 a while back and this board was almost ideal for me because I really wanted a board with nf4 sli x16... but the layout was retarded, furthermore the thermal pipe solution meant it didn't work with the new lian-li cases which i had planned to use (that's only minor though), and possibly more important: even if i wanted it, the stock is so awful i wouldn't have much of a chance of getting one. and then there was all this talk about it destroying cpus though i don't know if that was just rumors. anyway that layout pretty much ruined the board for me, i need to be able to fit a sizeable sound card in there which will be irritating if not impossible.
DFI's look good, except i don't know who the hell came up with the whole lan party motif, it really turns me off from even looking at them, though with the selection i've got now it feels like there's not many other choices. even so DFI still hasn't released a damn x16 board... GRRR!!!
Finally Gigabyte released that one with the intel chipset that could take both crossfire and sli (awesome because ati's next gen should be competitive), that and it used the windtunnel cooling which means i could have used it in my case, and it had the x16 going on... and space for two extra graphic cards if i ever wanted to, though i probably wouldn't. but yeah then i'd have to switch to pentium procs, the board is nice but not that nice.
I just wish that some decent mobo company would release something along the lines of the a8n32 with a practical layout, option of either windtunnel or thermal pipe cooling, with the nf4 sli x16 going on. why can't they just do it?!!!
end of rant.
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