Best socket 1366 motherboards?

[jjmIII]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Asrock X58 Extreme for 169$ is a great board

x2 :thumbsup:

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

Originally posted by: bliq00
I actually like MSI boards for i7. good price and features. I also looked at asus before going with MSI which had a lot of the features of the more expensive Asus boards and some features like OC Genie, the quick launching OS, and seemingly better chipset cooling at an equivalent price to the cheaper Asus boards.

MSI offers fantastic X58 motherboards.

 

[GEOrifle]

What about EVGA E760 CLASSIFIED ($299). How ggd is it over another boards?

 

[bradslinux]

Originally posted by: Sylvanas

Originally posted by: GEOrifle
And what are you gonna tell me? $130 board is better than $280 one ?

In some cases yes. You won't be guaranteed a higher Bclk with a higher end board, sometimes they clock worse, sometimes they clock better. The UD3R in my experience has taken evrything I've thrown at it and seeing as the circuitry and BIOS is exactly the same as the higher end boards I would suggest a UD3R and put the saved money into something else.

Ditto here, UD3R gets my vote too.
Great board. I have spent more $$$ for less board in the past. This board rocks!
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[Makaveli]

Chooch731


Can you give me more feedback on your board and the memory configuration.

I just picked up the same board and I have a 920 D0, i'm still in the process of buidling the system so still have to pick up memory and a aftermarket cooler.

My main concern, is I want to be able start with 6GB and move to 12GB down the road. I see you specs say 12GB but then you state issues with XMP and it only seeing 6. Does anyone have an idea on what the best memory to use on this board. I'm looking at DDR 3 1600 memory. Also any feedback on the higher than 200 Blk and Sleep not working, seen reported issues of this. When I check the asus website they mention bios 0504 or something has a fix in it for this issue.

 

[Ayah]

Originally posted by: GEOrifle
What about EVGA E760 CLASSIFIED ($299). How ggd is it over another boards?

The classified board is really only worth the money if you're doing chilled water, phase change, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium.

eVGA boards have the best support and the best warranty though. :heart:

 

[GEOrifle]

I bought E760 CLASSIFIED for $297 a/MIR which is almost same price as regular x58 motherboards so it was wort , now they are selling for $370 a/MIR.
Was thinking to buy ASUS Rampage II Extreme but EVGA's Lifetime Warranty made my choice final. Especially EVGA's CLASSIFIED is board with BLACK and SILVER with some RED colors designed,i have also CoolerMaster v8 also black-silver colors, OCZ XMP RAM also black and XFX 5850 black, CORSAIR CMPSU-750HX also black, tower black, monitor LG 24" black so choice was right, that's why i did go over EVGA E-758,Gigabyte UD5 and ASUS white-red-blue-green and what else more colored brands.
I hope CLASSIFIED will do at least same job if not more.


1. LG W2453V-PF 2ms
2. i7 920 D0 w.Cooler MAster v8 HSF
3. CORSAIR CMPSU-750HX 750W
4. EVGA X58 SLI Classified Motherboard 141-BL-E760-A1
5. OCZ XMP Ready Series 6GB (3 x 2GB) RAM
6. 150GB WD Raptor+1TB WD Caviar
7.All In One Card Reader/Writer with USB2.0 & eSATA
8. XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GB PCIe DDR5 w/HDMI W/DIRT 2 (BACKORDERED)

9. DVDRW or BL-RW ????(i don't know yet)

 

[ChorniyVolk]

Going by what some people have said here, what reason is there to get a higher end board? Hell, if the sub $200 boards can get to 4GHz+, do the more expensive boards even have anything worthwhile?