Asuse Rampage Extreme II Mobo - Simply Amazing !

[Admiral Michael]

Good point!

 

[Johnny]

I am kinda thinking that motherboard is better than the skulltrail .. The more I look at it the more I want it !

 

[LordOfLA]

uh cos its power for the CPU? Wouldn't want it in the refridgerator now would you?

 

[Terrahertz]

I prefer gigabyte personally . Foxconn x58 board has a great layout and has four pci-ex 16 slots.

 

[Johnny]

Yeah, Foxconn are pretty good as well.

 

[LordOfLA]

foxconn is the largest manufacture of just about everything on mainboards these days

Try and find a board that doesn't have something saying foxconn on it

they also build all of the apple and dell kit

 

[lancer]

i did notice one thing, which suprised me and thats that the new lga1366 cpus need 130w's now whereas the old lga775's mainly use 95w's, what gives. I thought the new designs where supposed to be more power and heat friendly.

Is there much of a speed difference?

 

[LordOfLA]

core i7 is the fastest single chip processor on the planet right now by a very signifiant margin.

The extra maximum power doesn't surprise me. What the chip can do though is turn off the parts not in use as needed to conserve power.

 

[lancer]

thats cool, when i move out to LA, i plan on building myself another machine, have not used a PC this yr at all.

 

[Electronic Punk]

Got the Asus Rampage Formula here, only DDR2 but has served me well so far.

 

[Admiral Michael]

I would love to upgrade my desktop but I hardly use it so it's not worth it. My ASUS Crosshair and AMD Athlon X2 5400+ are more then enough for now.

The video may be upgraded since I have a SLI'd setup of BGF GeForce 7600s. May just get a better single card. SLI isn't really worth it IMO.

 

[RonStarusnak]

It sucks because I didn't know my board could only handle 3.5gb and I bought 8.

 

[epk]

that does suck

are u sure its not a 32 bit limitation?

 

[Johnny]

It sucks because I didn't know my board could only handle 3.5gb and I bought 8.

This is why you research before you buy.