Good lga 1156 board

dsolash

dsolash

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Hello. As you can see I am in dire need of a new Mobo and cpu. So its almost my birthday and im going to but an i7-860 with a good mobo. The Foxconn Inferno Katana was looking good. I can go up around $270 in price on the mobo. But I was wondering what would be the difference, because the katana is pretty good, but i dont need any of the extra features like the the on thy fly cpu ocing that the evga 200ftw offers. I am an ocer so a good oc board would be good, no eatx. Ram/cpu/mobo should be under $650. So good ram would help too. Cheaper is always better, but don't sacrifice much performance. Just I dont need the extras like a light up mobo and stuff, and ln2 bowls for ocing. Thanks guys for all your help!
 
dsolash

dsolash

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and x58 works too.. i havent looked at those in a long time but the prices are like the same as the p55
 
Cromewell

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But I do recommend you go for i7 920 with X58 if money not an issue
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Why? With the i7 800 series there's really no place for the extra cost for a slower performing chip. That would be anything slower than an i7 965, and there aren't many reasons to get anthing slower in LGA1366.
 
Seth

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It is far and away worth going to X58 if you can afford it. There are feature that the 1156 chips have over the 1366 ones but there are also things that x58 has over 1156 (such as 16/16 SLI). Also 1366 is more future proofed - being able to support the Hexa-core processors being released by Intel some time in 2010. (1156 will not support them)

Essentially you can look at it as 1156 being the final nail in the coffin to socket 775. However 1366 is still the current future socket.
 
dsolash

dsolash

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very true, but very FAR in the future.. the hexacore will be worth around $1000 and few games use more than two cores. But yes x58 is more futureproof, but by the time games require six cores i will already have something new. I will see considering a good x58 motherboard will cost as much as a mid-high end p55, it isnt that much of a price jump. The 920 and 860 are the same price
 
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daisymtc

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Cromewell said:
Why? With the i7 800 series there's really no place for the extra cost for a slower performing chip. That would be anything slower than an i7 965, and there aren't many reasons to get anthing slower in LGA1366.
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from my memory, I have read some articles about problem with mobo for LGA 1156 overclocking...
 
Cromewell

Cromewell

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I suppose that's true, you will need to up vcore if you want a real big overclock on 1156 but stock performance is already much better.
 
dsolash

dsolash

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hmm so as of now i am deciding between these.. only reason i did not pick the ones the op selected was that i forgot to add is that i need 3 pciex16 (hydra, two gpus) and a pcie x1 slot (sound).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131400&cm_re=p55-_-13-131-400-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157169&cm_re=p55-_-13-157-169-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128402&cm_re=p55-_-13-128-402-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130238&cm_re=p55-_-13-130-238-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186176&cm_re=p55-_-13-186-176-_-Product

and im sorry guys.. I decided against the x58 because u seem to get more for ur money with p55.. Thanks for your help though
 
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