My System Board Recomendations
New State of the Art PC
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 by the1guru | Discussion: Personal Computing
Ok so it's nearing the end of 2009 and Windows Seven is being released in October.
If your looking to build a new PC with alot of forward viability look at the products from EVGA.
I have spent nearly a year using and testing two of EVGA Mother Boards. The 790 SLi Ftw Digital and the newest Intel chipset based EVGA MB, the X58 3X Sli. WOW!
The first is based on the nvidia 790 chipset and is what they call an enthusiests system board.
Total control over nearly every aspect of the board. It is able to run triple Sli ready Graphics adaptors, this makes it appealling cause you can purchase less expensive single GPU based Graphics cards and enable the Sli function up to 3x's effectivly giving you triple GPU power.
I am using the core 2 extreme Q6850 quad core, 2 of the XFX 9800GT cards SLi enabled, 4gigs og DDR3 1333Mhz,3 SATA 500Gig Seagate drives, Sata Liteon DVD burner, 850 Watt Hiper PS, in a Black Dragon Case.
Ok so the Boards are not cheap, but this about the Geek Factor.
This board should be run with at least a 1000Watt PS, My Hiper will run up to this, but I do not have a bunch of Fans or other doda's using up the wattage. I am running Vista Ultimate 64. This could easily OC to well over 4.5MHZ with Liquid cooling.
There are rumors the 790i based models are being phased out, so look for deals on auction sites.
Now then the X58 3X Sli, I luv this board, Of course it's for the i7 processor's of wich I am using the 965 Extrem Desktop model, 6 gigs of 1600 DDR3, 2 palit 9600GT Cards, 1000Watt PS, Liteon DVD Burner, all in a HAF 932 full tower, running Vista Ultimate 64.
What can a say, but it's a screamer. EVGA support is always ready to help via emails and has always got back to me in 24 hrs or less. the main issue's I have found were Memory timming and Voltage issue's once I worked that out with them, It's been rock solid. Runs all I've thrown at it. so go to www.evga.com and check out what's new
Reply #4 Friday, September 11, 2009 11:45 PM
Wall of Text; Did Not Read. Try adding some line breaks.
Reply #5 Saturday, September 12, 2009 12:20 AM
Myles the line breaks were added, thanks for the input
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Reply #1 Wednesday, September 9, 2009 3:57 PM