Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Saturday 29 January 2011 13:29:53 Florian Philipp wrote:
Hi list!
I'm thinking about building a new media PC and wanted to use an ASUS
M4A88T-M/USB3 mainboard (link: [1]). Any objections to this?
I wouldn't buy an Asus board at the moment, thanks to their crappyness.
I bought a GA-880GA-UD3H 4 weeks ago. It works.
rtl8111d/e lan chip
usb3
lots of pcie slots.
note: you don't have to care about the realtek suffices. 8111d/e/whatever...
they just work
That mobo is a nice one. Lots of good stuff. If I recall correctly it
has the latest SATA too. The 6Gbs speed that is. Mine has 3Gbs.
I read somewhere that the current line up of Gigabyte mobos are the
highest rated. It used to be Abit and ASUS but we all know how these
things change. There was another one that was highly rated a good long
while back, especially with Linux users, but I can't recall the brand
now. ASRock or something? Maybe?
I looked into ASUS before my build and switched to Gigabyte after some
research. About the only thing I was settled on when I started was a
Nvidia based video card. The rest was open to changes. I do wish I had
got the 6 core CPU now tho. That is my only regret. Still happy tho.
This new rig is easily 7 or 8 times faster all the way around.
Dale
:-) :-)
