I've been looking through too much p55 mobos now to a point i can't even tell the difference other than price. If i plan on only using ONE gfx card, what would be the best mobo for that? (hoping price will be a lot lower than SLI/CF mobos)
APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Within 2 weeks.
BUDGET RANGE: $1000 +- 100 would be great.
SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: gaming (WoW, Batman AA, RE5, New Call of Duty, L4D)
PARTS NOT REQUIRED:
DVDRW Drive(IDE Modded firmware Pioneer A108)
Razar DeathAdder
MS Natural Keyboard
7200 500g HDD SATA
ASrock is a sister company to ASUS which was one of your choices. They are high quality but cheaper price.
You want to overclock and this board will give you that much better than the other boards already posted.
8+2 voltage regulation.....very important for a good overclock, along with more BIOS options than the 100~ boards.
I did alot of research and this board gives you everything and then some of the 200+ boards
I paired this board with the i5/750 and am very happy.
I would not go with ASRock. They are like ASUS's cheaper less quality brand. Motherboard fried during light overclocking and other ASRocks have given them similar problems:
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2436.html
The only ASRock I would recommend is their x58 board for the i7 920 and then only because I read great reviews here, at anandtech and one other place.
Message edited by dndhatcher on 10-09-2009 at 09:01:19 PM