Tell me which of these two motherboards I should get.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:49 pm

Should I get this Gigabyte Mobo.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813128081

Or this MSI Board
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813130182

I already have the Graphics card, and price is not the Issue, just tell me which one I should go for.

If your wondering what Graphics card I am getting, it is a
Sapphire Radeon 3870 512MB.

Up yours Nvidia Fanboys

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:57 pm

The Gigabyte one.

Stupid AMD user

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:33 pm

Harshboy wrote: Stupid AMD user

Well AMD products have better bang for your buck, not necessarily as good as Nvidia, but Nvidia and Intel stuff is quite a bit more expensive than AMD.

Just to let you know this computer is only gonna be $550 at max (Minus Keyboards, Mice, and Monitor.)

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:42 am

Jongamer wrote:
Harshboy wrote: Stupid AMD user

Well AMD products have better bang for your buck, not necessarily as good as Nvidia, but Nvidia and Intel stuff is quite a bit more expensive than AMD.

Just to let you know this computer is only gonna be $550 at max (Minus Keyboards, Mice, and Monitor.)

Alright, just you wait until Core i7. Expensive as hell but it slays the best Phenom. Core i7 is 165% faster than a Phenom.

Post by **bicostp** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:00 am

<s>Actually, didn't they release the i7 in the last couple days?</s>

Yes, they did. You can get the 2.66 ghz model and an Intel motherboard for under $600 at Tiger Direct. However, since it's so new, it's obviously going to be expensive. (Another 40 bucks will get you a monster EVGA board with 6 DDR3 slots, 3 PCIe 2.0 x16 slots, and tons of other goodies.)

I'd go with the MSI motherboard, since I trust them more than Gigabyte.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:35 am

So I got 2 for Gigabyte (a Friend of mine said Gigabyte, Harshboy says Gigabyte, Bic says MSI, and I was leaning towards the MSI Board myself.

So still kinda at a deadlock here

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:53 am

Jongamer wrote:So I got 2 for Gigabyte (a Friend of mine said Gigabyte, Harshboy says Gigabyte, Bic says MSI, and I was leaning towards the MSI Board myself.

So still kinda at a deadlock here

Depends what you need here...

MSI Board: More Legacy Support, Max 8GB of Ram, 6 SATA Ports, 4 USB Ports + More
Gigabyte Board: More PCI-E x1 Slots, Max 16GB of Ram, 4 SATA Ports, 6 USB Ports + More

Based on what I use a Computer for and expandability I would go with the Gigabyte.

It's your choice, they are pretty much the same price and neither one is truly better than the other. Just depends what you want...heck, choose which one looks cooler for all I care.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:42 pm

Jongamer wrote:
Harshboy wrote: Just to let you know this computer is only gonna be $550 at max (Minus Keyboards, Mice, and Monitor.)

See Harshboy, I TOLD you!

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:18 pm

Kurt_ wrote:
Jongamer wrote:
Harshboy wrote: Just to let you know this computer is only gonna be $550 at max (Minus Keyboards, Mice, and Monitor.)
See Harshboy, I TOLD you!

I can't understand poor formatting and dumb use of the quote button.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:36 pm

Harshboy wrote:
Kurt_ wrote:
Jongamer wrote:
Harshboy wrote: Just to let you know this computer is only gonna be $550 at max (Minus Keyboards, Mice, and Monitor.)
See Harshboy, I TOLD you!
I can't understand poor formatting and dumb use of the quote button.

? did I miss something?

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:50 am

Shush wrote:
Harshboy wrote:
Kurt wrote: Computer: $500 (Admit it, we all re-use the monitor and parts like hard drives)
Um, I don't. My computer really did cost $1800 when I bought it (Well my Dad, it was my birthday present), and my Macbook also cost $1800 when I bought it (Took a whole summer to get it).

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:46 pm

Kurt_ wrote:
Shush wrote:
Harshboy wrote:
Kurt wrote: Computer: $500 (Admit it, we all re-use the monitor and parts like hard drives)
Um, I don't. My computer really did cost $1800 when I bought it (Well my Dad, it was my birthday present), and my Macbook also cost $1800 when I bought it (Took a whole summer to get it).

ahh

Well I settled on Microatx.

I found a Nice Motherboard and CPU Combo.

Gigabyte Motherboard:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813128090

AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz Quad

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103244

I was gonna get a Triple Core, but that felt odd having only 3 cores, not to mention, cheaper for me to get the Quad in the Combo, and I had picked out that motherboard before I even realized there was a nice Combo Deal for a Quad, so don't think I just chose the motherboard cause it had a nice deal

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 6:22 pm

Good Choice