building a new rig soon~ shld i go for Q9505 wif LGA775 board, use for 3yrs & upgrade again; or go for i7-860 wif LGA1156 board & use for 5yrs~?
any comment on Gigabyte GA-H55-USB3 to match wif i7-860~? the price seem to be one of the lower cost mobo yet equipped wif usb3.0~
This board is not bad, go for it! Besides that, those newer i-Series boards often have more stuff inside, like USB3.0.
1366~? i still considering between i5-750 & i7-860, shld i dump in abit mre budget on it~ if go for i7-930 wif 1366, i hv up mre budget~ the most taxing applications i will be using will be H.264 1080p video editing/ encoding & abit of 3D modeling/ rendering~
i5 750 is good enough for most. But it's pointless to go for i7 860, as you are only saving on the motherboard cost. DDR3, CPU is about the same price.
ok~ the cheapest combo for 1366 system is i7-930 & ECS X58B-A2 which is S$661 oppose to i7-860 wif gigabyte P55A-UD3 at S$637~ is ECS mobo worth considering~?
Hmm.. ECS is basically a budget board. If you are going to go with LGA 1366, better spend a little more to get a good board.
if i get the GA-X58A-UD3R, is it recommend to run triple channels~? thot of buying dual rams bundle first & wait for the ram price to drop to buy 3rd ram nxtime~
Going dual-channel first is fine. The Core i7 has a tremendous amount of memory bandwidth even with just two channels running.
a little update~ i bought the GA-X58A-UD3R, i7-930, Team Elite PC3-10600/13333Mhz 3 x 2Gb DDR3 & Coolermaster USP100 Casing (Red Panel)~ re-using old graphic card, card readers, HDDs & RMAed PSU~
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im re-using an old HD3850~ i dun really play game, so its quite ok~ installed Win7 Ult 64bit, having some glitches when installed sme of my programs & hvr1300 tv card~ still in the midst of migrating my data & installing the old programs~ will upgrade the cooler & gpu when there's a better promo~
