Whats a good 1366 motherboard

[Deleted member 362816]

I am getting an i7-950 and i need a good mobo to go along with it anyone have any reccomendations?

 

[Toxxyc]

1. Why would you want to go 1366 above 1155? It all costs the same, but performance from the Sandy Bridge design is much better?

2. You didn't mention a budget. I'm assuming you're not going to want extreme, as few people actually do

OK, you'd obviously want the X58 chipset. You actually have a very wide range you can choose from. I'm a fan of Asus, so I'd say the Rampage III Gene or Formula boards are quite OK, depending on your budget. The Gene is a bit cheaper, but with the Formula you get an extra PCI-E 16x slot, thus enabling 3-way SLi/XFire.

Both motherboards have USB 3.0 support, SATA III and triple channel DDR3 slots supporting up to 2200MHz RAM speeds.

For the CPU you are getting, I don't think it'd be wise to go extreme, so the Gene would be fine.

I just still don't get why you'd want LGA1366 above LGA1155, except if you got the CPU for free perhaps?

 

[davcon]

Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11830BD4161&vpn=GA-X58A-UD3R&manufacture=GIGABYTE
ASUS Sabertooth X58
http://www.bestdirect.ca/products/230546/ASUS/SABERTOOTH_X58/

 

[Deleted member 362816]

Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11830BD4161&vpn=GA-X58A-UD3R&manufacture=GIGABYTE
ASUS Sabertooth X58
http://www.bestdirect.ca/products/230546/ASUS/SABERTOOTH_X58/

I did like my p67 sabertooth it was nice the recall has me not wanting 1155 i returned my stuff any way the x58 sabertooth seems to have a track record for coming doa or with bad integrated sound card. Has this issue been fixed otherwise i like the look of the evga ftw 3

 

[Deleted member 362816]

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