Hi,
I am about to buy a new motherboard for my computer and the CPU that will be used is a Intel I5 2500K(OC) with a Geforce GTX570.
Usually I change graphic cards at least twice on every motherboards and this means that its important that the motherboads is as future safe and reliable as possible.
This is why I have been looking on Gen3 motherboards but its a bit confusion.
Gen3 means
1. Able to run the new IVY Bridge CPU
2. Able to use the new PCI-e 3.0 (switch circuit) at higher speed
3. Is there more?
Another question is about the 6 Gbit/s SATA, will this only be used for SSD? Or will it make a diffrence even on regular harddrives?
I am lookin on the Z68 Intel Chip to enable the I5 2500K onboard GPU even If I today have no direcly use for this.
The boards I have been looking at is :
A. Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P - Not a Gen3 board as far as I can see? And no EFI-bios(that is supose to make the startup faster). This board has four 6 Gbit/s SATA ports
B. MSI Z68A-GD55(G3) - Seems to have everyting, it is suporting 2 PCI-e 3.0 att full speed and it is suporting IVY Bridge, Am I right? This go only got two 6 Gbit/s SATA ports
C. ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 - Not sure if this offers the same thing as the MSI above?
Gigabyte Is my favorite brand, it have never failed while all the other bords have(MSI, ASUS and Epox).
So pleas clear this up for me, which motherboard should I look closer on and why? Is there a better choise then the one I have stated?
I am about to buy a new motherboard for my computer and the CPU that will be used is a Intel I5 2500K(OC) with a Geforce GTX570.
Usually I change graphic cards at least twice on every motherboards and this means that its important that the motherboads is as future safe and reliable as possible.
This is why I have been looking on Gen3 motherboards but its a bit confusion.
Gen3 means
1. Able to run the new IVY Bridge CPU
2. Able to use the new PCI-e 3.0 (switch circuit) at higher speed
3. Is there more?
Another question is about the 6 Gbit/s SATA, will this only be used for SSD? Or will it make a diffrence even on regular harddrives?
I am lookin on the Z68 Intel Chip to enable the I5 2500K onboard GPU even If I today have no direcly use for this.
The boards I have been looking at is :
A. Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P - Not a Gen3 board as far as I can see? And no EFI-bios(that is supose to make the startup faster). This board has four 6 Gbit/s SATA ports
B. MSI Z68A-GD55(G3) - Seems to have everyting, it is suporting 2 PCI-e 3.0 att full speed and it is suporting IVY Bridge, Am I right? This go only got two 6 Gbit/s SATA ports
C. ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 - Not sure if this offers the same thing as the MSI above?
Gigabyte Is my favorite brand, it have never failed while all the other bords have(MSI, ASUS and Epox).
So pleas clear this up for me, which motherboard should I look closer on and why? Is there a better choise then the one I have stated?
