- Jul 8, 2011
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Hey people, first off, thanks in advance for the advice in response to this.
I'm a relatively intermediate system builder (two homebuilds completed, tons of IT experience otherwise), working on my third system.
I have an i3-2100 that I plan to use (got a great deal at Microcenter) and am looking for a good mobo to go with it. This is a "budget" build (aiming for 600 but that's not a hard cap). More details:
* I prefer newegg, but am also close to Microcenter and not far from Fry's. Don't mind the drive for good savings.
* I'd like the H67 chipset. In my primary machine, I use P67 for a i5-2500k, but since this is a more "budget" machine, I'd rather avoid getting a discrete graphics card and thus H67 is preferable.
* That said, I do plan to use this for light gaming. Nothing very intense or often, I use my main machine for the more intense gaming.
* I'll need to be able to use a dual-display setup (actually my plan is to use three monitors for two computers, switching the middle back and forth between two computers. In any case, this needs dual-display support.)
* The mobo has to be Micro ATX (or smaller) and I'd like 4 memory slots. I'm using a Micro-ATX size case, so there's that, and I want the option to upgrade the RAM in the future just by adding two sticks.
On Newegg, these requirements narrow down to about a dozen options. Any suggestions as to which direction I should go?
Thanks,
Nathan
I'm a relatively intermediate system builder (two homebuilds completed, tons of IT experience otherwise), working on my third system.
I have an i3-2100 that I plan to use (got a great deal at Microcenter) and am looking for a good mobo to go with it. This is a "budget" build (aiming for 600 but that's not a hard cap). More details:
* I prefer newegg, but am also close to Microcenter and not far from Fry's. Don't mind the drive for good savings.
* I'd like the H67 chipset. In my primary machine, I use P67 for a i5-2500k, but since this is a more "budget" machine, I'd rather avoid getting a discrete graphics card and thus H67 is preferable.
* That said, I do plan to use this for light gaming. Nothing very intense or often, I use my main machine for the more intense gaming.
* I'll need to be able to use a dual-display setup (actually my plan is to use three monitors for two computers, switching the middle back and forth between two computers. In any case, this needs dual-display support.)
* The mobo has to be Micro ATX (or smaller) and I'd like 4 memory slots. I'm using a Micro-ATX size case, so there's that, and I want the option to upgrade the RAM in the future just by adding two sticks.
On Newegg, these requirements narrow down to about a dozen options. Any suggestions as to which direction I should go?
Thanks,
Nathan
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