which 1 for gaming?

gubrother

gubrother

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Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 Motherboard or ASUS P7P55D-E LX Motherboard

I am trying to choose from these 2 for my computer with i5 760 8gb ddr3 ram

i will mostly be gaming btw u will be doing some light overclocking with a CoolerMaster Hyper 212+ CPU Cooler as an aftermarket cooler
 
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Either of them are a good choice,Id personally go with the Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 because it has Dual Pci-e slots.

8gb of ram is OTT really and not needed,What graphics card you got?
 
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Nevakonaza said:
Either of them are a good choice,Id personally go with the Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 because it has Dual Pci-e slots.

8gb of ram is OTT really and not needed,What graphics card you got?
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6GB is becoming pretty much the norm for this generation of desktops, even in BB desktops. 8GB isn't really that much.
 
87dtna said:
Neither. ASRock P55 extreme, offers 8x/8x SLI or crossfire, keeps your options open for future improvements.
Plus it's cheaper. I have one, sweet board. They recently dropped the price to sell them out because of the new line coming in with USB3 and sata 6gb/s. They used to be $140. They won't be available much longer.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157172
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Isn't asrock the nockoff version of Asus? (Or was it foxconn?)

Either way, I wouldn't recommend it.

To the OP, go with the gigabyte.
 
ASRock is a subsidary of Asus, not a knockoff. The quality is plenty good, I would take ASRock over Biostar, MSI, and ECS anyday. Asrock and gigabyte are the only two boards I like using actually.

As I said, I'm using a P55 extreme right now, and have been for months. I've clocked an I7 860 to 5ghz on DICE with this board, and an I3 530 to 5.65ghz. It's a solid board.

But whatever, pay $40 more for less features if you want to...just making a suggestion.

The ASRock P55 extreme has 8+2 phase vs the gigabyte's 6+2 phase. The extreme does x8/x8 SLI and Xfire, the gigabyte can only do crossfire at x4 (read:bottleneck), and also the asrock has three PCIe slots which gives the option of SLI + another card for PhysX.

I just helped a friend build 4 rigs, two with P55 extreme's and 2 with P55 deluxes (basically an extreme with 16+2 phase PWM). He has three gts450's in every rig, and X3440's (xeon version of I7) clocked to 3.8ghz folding 24/7.
 
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87dtna said:
But whatever, pay $40 more for less features if you want to...just making a suggestion.
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That's a cruel argument you're making.

Apple products may be more expensive and have less features, but the iPhone is one of the most successful phones on the market. Not everyone wants an Android, especially if they're new and have yet to prove themselves. [/metaphor]

Only most recently has ASRock actually broken from Asus and is trying to really push on the market, especially competing against ECS/Foxconn/other middleware.

I will admit, I didn't look at the details and was just /fanboying/ at the mention of Gigabyte with my post. I am really surprised at how the gigabyte can only do 4x pci-e. Whereas the ASRock can do at least 8x between its slots.

To the OP, perhaps a different board /would/ be recommended, pending your opinion in this matter of course.
 
He'd have to get the UD4P for x8/x8 capabilities, which is $180. But it still doesn't have the 3rd PCIe slot for a possible SLI + physX card capabilities.

Don't get me wrong, Gigabyte is better quality overall, but the ASRock is very feature rich and NOT crap quality. It's only so cheap in price because like I said they are trying to sell them out. Just 2 months ago the P55 extreme was $140.

If it was $140 for the extreme or $180 for the UD4P, I'd probably say to poney up the $40. But that fact that it's $80 more, well, it's not THAT much better.
 
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