Looking for good soild Socket 1366 board

colt1911

colt1911

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Like title says I'm looking for a solid 1366 board. Don't care about the SAS hook ups cause I want be using it and will only be using one video card. Any suggestion appreciated and would help if you let me know why you think it's a solid board. Thanks
 
Second that... I have that GA-EX58-UD3R. While I find the bios layout/wording to be rather confusing when compared to my old Asus, the board itself seems top notch. Build quality is great and it's been very stable running my i7 920 at 3.33GHz.
 
The_Other_One said:
Second that... I have that GA-EX58-UD3R. While I find the bios layout/wording to be rather confusing when compared to my old Asus, the board itself seems top notch. Build quality is great and it's been very stable running my i7 920 at 3.33GHz.
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Just let it be known that it has a 3+1 channels for RAM. Triple Channel + single channel can limit some expansion needs if a person wants to add alot of RAM.

If you start at 6 GB - and have a desire later on to add 3 or 6 more GB in triple channel mode - you can't add a second set of triple channel RAM.
 
I don't have a price range and I will eventually need to run more than 6 gigs of ram . So with taht being the case is their another board besides the GA-EX58-UD3R and the Asus P6T deluxe which I have now and is a piece of crap.
 
Jamin43 said:
Just let it be known that it has a 3+1 channels for RAM. Triple Channel + single channel can limit some expansion needs if a person wants to add alot of RAM.
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Yeah, that 4th slot confused me a little when I first saw it, but I don't expect to upgrade personally... Though seeing as I already ran out of ram once... :rolleyes:
 
The_Other_One said:
Yeah, that 4th slot confused me a little when I first saw it, but I don't expect to upgrade personally... Though seeing as I already ran out of ram once... :rolleyes:
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I was considering the UD3P - Took me a while too. I was like WTF????

I wanted the option to upgrade - b/c you never know what the future holds - so went with the UD4P - but I can't recommend it - b/c the board has been discontinued. You can still buy it on Amazon through a seller - but I can't find it anywhere else in stock.
 
I almost didn't get it because of the ram... Is it only dual channel... Why have another... Well I'm happy with my board now. And yes, it's triple channel :P
 
colt1911 said:
I don't have a price range and I will eventually need to run more than 6 gigs of ram . So with taht being the case is their another board besides the GA-EX58-UD3R and the Asus P6T deluxe which I have now and is a piece of crap.
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Just curious why's it a peice of crap? My board has been nothing but good to me.
 
I would not call a motherboard a piece of garbage just because you can't overclock it. Shoot, you have an Intel i7 processor that has HyperThreading and triple channel RAM. Your system is powerful.
 
2048Megabytes said:
I would not call a motherboard a piece of garbage just because you can't overclock it. Shoot, you have an Intel i7 processor that has HyperThreading and triple channel RAM. Your system is powerful.
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True, but when you pay top dollar for a platform that is known for easily overclocking, it would be a bit disappointing.
 
Bodaggit23 said:
True, but when you pay top dollar for a platform that is known for easily overclocking, it would be a bit disappointing.
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How much more power is he going to get out of an overclock? I personally think it is not wise to buy another motherboard just to overclock his present system. If I were him I would save my money for a future upgrade like the new six core processor Intel will be coming out with.
 
You have to make sure to increase the QPI/DRAM voltage as well. It should be no more than .5v away from your CPU voltage. Its not the board because I have hit 4740mhz with all 12gigs running at 2000mhz. Also increasing the north and south bridges as well can help with the OC.
 
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