Hi,
I really don't know which of these mobo's I should get: Asus P6T Deluxe V2 or Gigabyte X58-UD5
In the first instance I would go for the ASUS because I've always used their boards and never had any problems with them. It also receives very positive comments in reviews and I haven't yet heard one bad thing about the p6t deluxe. However what troubles me is that it only has 6 sata ports of which two are not on a 90° angle what is kinda annying for cable management. Besides, when you are doing 2-way SLI with dual slot cards, you can't add a third card for physx as the last slot is blocked by one of the cards. I'm not sure it will make a big performance difference but it's always nice to have it. Though the PCIe setup on the asus would be better as there's more room between the two cards, allowing better cooling.
The Gigabyte has 10 sata ports, which my main reason to get that board. However, I've already heard a reasonable amount of bad things about that board. First, there would be incompatibility with some memory making the board to do strange things while posting. Secondly I've also heard things about buzzing capacitors, which is kinda annoying. Third, there would be several problems with the bios. And finally, Gigabyte's overall build quality would be worse than asus'.
Now, which board would you guys recommend me? I would have no problem with buying the gigabyte if some of you can confirm that gigabyte has already addressed these issues (the UD5 is already released for quite some time so they might have reacted to these problems).
Any help would be really appreciated,
Thanks
I really don't know which of these mobo's I should get: Asus P6T Deluxe V2 or Gigabyte X58-UD5
In the first instance I would go for the ASUS because I've always used their boards and never had any problems with them. It also receives very positive comments in reviews and I haven't yet heard one bad thing about the p6t deluxe. However what troubles me is that it only has 6 sata ports of which two are not on a 90° angle what is kinda annying for cable management. Besides, when you are doing 2-way SLI with dual slot cards, you can't add a third card for physx as the last slot is blocked by one of the cards. I'm not sure it will make a big performance difference but it's always nice to have it. Though the PCIe setup on the asus would be better as there's more room between the two cards, allowing better cooling.
The Gigabyte has 10 sata ports, which my main reason to get that board. However, I've already heard a reasonable amount of bad things about that board. First, there would be incompatibility with some memory making the board to do strange things while posting. Secondly I've also heard things about buzzing capacitors, which is kinda annoying. Third, there would be several problems with the bios. And finally, Gigabyte's overall build quality would be worse than asus'.
Now, which board would you guys recommend me? I would have no problem with buying the gigabyte if some of you can confirm that gigabyte has already addressed these issues (the UD5 is already released for quite some time so they might have reacted to these problems).
Any help would be really appreciated,
Thanks