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MarkJohnson:
I am going to buy an i7 motherboard and I'm leaning towards a Gigabyte.  I see there are sseveral X58 boards to choose from and was wondering if someone can give me a rundown of the differences between them.

I just bought a 920 processor and currently have a pair of OCZ 1800 DDR3 memory I can test with until I save up for a triple channel set.  I also have an Asus 4870X2 and may buy a second one later on.  I just ordered an  ANTEC|TPQ-850 850W RT PSU.  It looked powerful enough and I've had great luck with Antec in the past.  I have a HT Omega Claro Plus + PCI sound card and an Areca ARC-1210 Raid controller with 1TB (4x250GB) Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST3250310NS in RAID 5.

I like to overclock and I have a water cooler for CPU and GPU.  I'm sure I'll need an adapter for the i7 chip.  I play mostly games, surf the Internet, eMail, watch some videos/movies, etc...

Thanks
-=Mark=-

runn3R:
Hi Mark

comparison of current 3 mobos with X58 chipset you can find at:
http://www.gigabyte.eu/Products/Motherboard/Products_ComparisonSheet.aspx?ProductID=2957,2958,2959

if you use water cooling then you may consider GA-EX58-Extreme as it already has water block on it's chipset's northbridge so you will be probably able to connect it with your water cooling system to cool by water not only CPU and GPU but also chipset.

MarkJohnson:
I decided on the Extreme board for the water cooling NB.  I should get it early next week.  also, the tripple channel version of my memory is on the compatibility list so hopefully my dual channel kit will be fine.

-=Mark=-

runn3R:
ok, thanks for info.  :)

MarkJohnson:
OK, I got the board today.  I hooked everything up and it gives an error b6 or maybe 69.  There are a ton of LEDs on the board and the first 4 NB LED light up starting with g/y/g/y (g=green/y=yellow) and the last three off. Is there a BIOS error code list somewhere to look at?

-=Mark=-
ps. The NB waterblock looks worthless.  It sits on top of the air cooler heatsink?  I was expecting the NB waterblock to make actual contact with the NB, not contact to the fins of the heatsink.  very odd design.

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