Best bang-for-buck, or is there better?

[MajinCry]

I found this Gigabyte GAZ68XUD3B3 for £85

http://www.bluepoint.net/GIGMOT660

It has everything I want : A sub £100 price-tag, Crossfire support (PCIE2.0 x8-x8), supports LGA1155 CPUs, and can cope with 32GB of 2133MHZ DDR3 Ram.


But, I am wondering if there is an alernative (I don't care about the brand, as long as it will last for atleast two years and get good tech support) motherboard that can offer the same bang for less/More bang for the same buck.

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

Yes that is a nice board . You can also take a look at the ASRock Z68 Extreme3.

One more thing if you are going to be using DDR 3 2133 memory you want to be very careful with it as most of that memory is running at 1.65v. With the 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors like the Intel Core i5-2500K only support memory at 1.5v ±5% (1.425v to 1.575v). My advise is just get some good DDR 3 1600 at 1.5v because after that point the performance increase doesn't really justify the cost increase of the faster memory.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiat Team

 

[MajinCry]

Sweet, thanks for the info. I'll take a gander at that mobo :3

 

[MajinCry]

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That AsRock Mobo...I'm in love. Does more than that Gigabyte one, and costs £2 less. Thanks pal

...Oh, by the way. Does it matter what ram I use? Does it just need to be DDR3 240-pin?

 

[cuecuemore]

+1 to the Extreme3 Gen3. I have it and it's just amazing. I'd go with RAM that's 1.5v or under, like IntelEnthusiast said; mine is rated for 1.25v, and I'm able to run it anywhere between 1.2v and 1.58v, and I can actually overclock and undertime it simultaneously.