triplemaya :
photonboy :
triplemaya :
06yfz450ridr :
do you mean virtumvp? i believe theres a list on their site showing the supported mobos? most newer boards are starting to support it but a low end board will not. dont cheap out on your mother board youll regret it
Yes, virtumvp is what I meant. And thanks, there is just such a list. And all the mobos are z77. Haven't found any for haswell that support it.
I am curious as to why you say don't cheap out on the motherboard. I have been using the cheapest asus or gigabyte boards I can buy for as long as I have been building pcs, at least 10 years, and never found reason to regret it.
Cheaper motherboards can't overclock as well and are more prone to fail. It sounds like you've had good success, but many people with cheaper motherboards have issues.
Aside from reliability there are lots of little things such as SATA controllers, main chipset performance, Audio chip etc.
I don't overclock, which is why I have never bothered with more expensive boards. And of course I make sure it has the number and type of SATA controllers I need. I'm using an ssd with the later SATA controller on this pc.
As I said, I always use the cheapest board that will do the job from Asus or Gigabyte. Are you telling me that their cheap boards are more likely to fail than their expensive boards? This would be useful information. But I find it hard to believe. (As it happens, I seem to be having trouble with two of the sata controllers on this board. But I took this as so unlikely that I am putting it down to cables or pebkac.)
Cheaper motherboards by necessity use less reliable parts:
- capacitors
- voltage regulators
- smaller heatsinks
Also, there is a PERFORMANCE difference between components. For example, my current Intel SATA3 (Sata 6gbps) gets WRITES of over 500MB/second on my Samsung 840 Pro but I tried it on a different motherboard using a MARVELL SATA3 controller and it was only getting 200MB/second!!
Value boards tend to use last-gen audio chips as well as simply not having features that others may want (eSATA, Crossfire, NVidia etc.)
*I can't find the link, but someone at Toms was going to buy an MSI motherboard as it was inexpensive (about $80) and it "suited his needs." However, I looked up the review for it and found it had several issues with instability. This instability was probably caused by a combination of lower-quality voltage-regulators, too-small heatsinks and other cheaper parts.
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