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Which One??????

The Gigabyte will be quieter and potentially more reliable as its chipset cooler is passive. It will run hot though.

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You probably don't need an SLi board if you're a light gamer. Will you be overclocking? What is your budget?
 
Originally posted by: MS Dawn
The Gigabyte will be quieter and potentially more reliable as its chipset cooler is passive. It will run hot though.

EDITED for errors. 🙂
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It will run very hot. Too hot to touch.

I would go with Asus. You could go with the A8N-E for $10.00 more which has a few more features. You would gaine SATA 3 Gb/s instead of 1.5 and firewire.

There is probably others, but that is why I went with the A8N-E.



 
Originally posted by: UsandThem

It will run very hot. Too hot to touch.

I would go with Asus. You could go with the A8N-E for $10.00 more which has a few more features. You would gaine SATA 3 Gb/s instead of 1.5 and firewire.

There is probably others, but that is why I went with the A8N-E.
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Yes it will but within SOA. When that crappy fan dies on the others (and I say when not if) the temperatures will soar well past the passive solution and get dangerously close to breaching the SOA ABMAX ratings. When this happens it's new motherboard time.

 
I will be running a 3700+ and might do light overclocking, maybe to 2.4ghz, but that's it. I would not like to spend more than 80 bucks for the mobo, if you have any better suggestions, please feel free to suggest.


Thanks for the help so far!

Westi
 
I'd go with the eVGA one. I mean, for $120 for the CPU+Mobo, what could be the worst scenario? I can't think of anything other than shipping for RMA if anything goes wrong! 😀
 
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