The next motherboard recommendation guide is going to focus on the six core specialty range, Sandy Bridge-E and X If you want pure throughput, in most scenarios and with deep wallets, X79 is the way to go of course Piledriver has some advantages and we have covered quite a few of the main motherboards available. Stay tuned for our recommendations. Post Your Comment Please log in or sign up to comment.
What is the benefit for someone who only needs one or at most two graphics cards, and no other PCIe cards? I don't count MultiCore Enhancement since upgrading to a K-series processor has the same effect and is generally cheaper. Is the VRM really better for overclocking, when a k can't easily exceed 4.
Anything else? Privacy Policy. Contact Us. There are a few areas for polish fan controls , but if you picked one off the shelf I doubt you would be disappointed. It is longer than other boards, such that users will need to check their case dimensions. With the power and heat output of Sandy Bridge-E, smaller motherboards might come across as more of a novelty — it would be understandable that with quad channel memory and 40 PCIe lanes that a mini-ITX board might not exist outside of ODMs, but there is room for micro-ATX.
By being a smaller board however, we have some adjustments to make — it is primarily a gaming board, but still overclocks really well. It costs a bit more than the ASRock X79 Extreme4-M while having similar outward facing hardware the beauty is in the underlying details and component choices , but the Gene takes a crown for performance and feature set.
Gene users want that small gaming system that rockets rings around other setups. As a Sandy Bridge-E owner, what would you like on your motherboard?
As a technical exercise, fitting all the obscene power features a user may want onto a motherboard sounds like a recipe for disaster, and a mountain on a wallet. With our testing, and the price range of this motherboard, it is safe to say that this product is more aimed at workstation projects, such as an 8-core Xeon with ECC, rather than a product for gamers or overclockers. Tool it up with eight SAS drives, seven single slot GPUs or four dual slot , and away you go with a nice number crunching machine.
While playing around with X79 is fun, the entry point for the platform is quite high. But that does not show the whole picture — while the price of the cheapest motherboards is not bad considering the main bulk of Z77 is around or just below that price the good motherboards will cost around double that. In terms of our performance numbers in the review, we were impressed by both the audio codec performance and the overclocking performance, being able to squeeze 4.
ASRock are continually building a BIOS and software ecosystem around their product which is getting easier to use as well as being nice to look at. Two motherboards on my plate to review over the next couple of months are going for the productivity and gaming crowds respectively.
The other one on my to-review list has not been released yet, and while I will have one in for testing, we cannot publish any numbers yet. When they around the corner, does it make sense to recommend any FM2 motherboards at this point?
Two motherboards have caught my eye over the year. Due to the orientation, the pin ATX power connector is in a decent place, but the 4-pin might be tricky with larger GPUs.
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