[Solved] What do you think about Intel boards?

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Tyan

hey guys how are you?

tell me what do you think about Intel motherboards? do you think people need to pay a bit more to get other coampanys or not?

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My personal opinion is that Intel boards suck. There's nothing wrong with them if you're building a vanilla system made up of all standard-issue parts, but if you want to get into higher-performance gaming systems, some of them start to give you issues. I had one that was advertised as an "extreme" board, but when I tried to put in some decent memory, it wouldn't let me adjust the voltage to the right settings -- if I set it to anything other than the default 1.5V, it would simply refuse to power on. I talked to Intel and they said that's just how the board was -- even though it's supposedly "extreme," don't try to use anything other than 1.5V memory or adjust any settings yourself. Last time I buy a POS board from them.

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no intel boards do not suck

they are a great reliable product if your not overclocking..

Enthusiast boards tend to go for Asus and Gigabyte then MSI...

Personally, Intel boards just run and run.. Unfortunately there a bit harder to come by over here due to the amount Intel wants its Disties to buy.

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Hellboy wrote :

no intel boards do not suck

they are a great reliable product if your not overclocking..

Enthusiast boards tend to go for Asus and Gigabyte then MSI...

Well, yeah, which is why I think Intel boards suck.

Reliable? Sure. Flexibility? Almost zero.

They also tend to have a pretty liberal definition of what constitutes "overclocking." Personally, I do not think something as mundane as adjusting the BIOS settings to get a stick of 1.65V DDR3 to work at stock settings falls into the "enthusiast" category. And it's certainly not something that ought to trigger a full system failure that's irreversibly hard-wired into the board. More like, it's something that ought to be a bare minimum requirement for any motherboard, period, and the fact that they don't support something so basic is more like building a flawed motherboard. To market something like that as "extreme" is just the icing on the cake.

Basically, I would avoid Intel at all costs unless you're building a stock-setting computer for work. Otherwise, you're just setting yourself up for buying another motherboard because of some unpleasant surprise that comes completely out of the blue.

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whats the poinbt of giving motherboards with overclocking facilities to a newb.

Intel are there at stock ratings for a reason.. for people who just want to run a machine as it should and not as it could..

Trust me as a dealer, manufacturer if you like would far prefer someone with a stock rated processor than have someone "overclock it " and burn out the processor if they didnt know what they were doing.

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Personally I think they suck, unless you are building a system that will stay stock till it dies....

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Hellboy wrote :

Sure, but then why are you even selling these boards on the open market to people who are building their own machines?

Honestly, I ran into this problem building what I thought was a pretty tame machine. No overclocking, no crossfiring, no crazy specs unless you count 1.65V RAM as "crazy." Just had a plain quad-core machine in mind and happened to get a good deal on an Intel board, and figured it would probably be OK. Nope.

I don't see that as Intel disabling "advanced" features for the newbs' own good. I call that building a board that's got compatibility problems and is difficult to work with. Put them in Dells or whatever, I don't care, but the rest might as well just go in the trash as far as I'm concerned.

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sorry - wrote it on other post

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sorry - wrote it on other post

Message edited by amiel on 02-05-2010 at 02:34:02 PM

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Intel boards are like Dad's car .... get you to work every day, but don't expect them to turn any heads on features or performance.

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sorry - wrote it on other post

Message edited by amiel on 02-05-2010 at 02:34:10 PM

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sorry - wrote it on other post

Message edited by amiel on 02-05-2010 at 02:34:16 PM

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