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recommend me a board for WHS

RobTi

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recommend me a board for WHS
« on: June 02, 2010, 03:36:58 pm »
Hi all

I need to upgrade my board & cpu for WHS and would like some recommendations as to which board to go for.

Obviously i need 6+ sata ports( or more  Smiley ) as a start with onboard gpu.

Now as to ddr2 or ddr3 willing to take anything although would ddr2 not be cheaper.

mATX or ATX doesn't matter would be in a Antec P180 so enough room in there

So can you give me some boards to look at ?


Thanks

Robert

mods also posted in the amd section for some ideas if wrong please delete\remove

venganza

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Re: recommend me a board for WHS
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2010, 04:33:59 pm »
Would be helpful if you can mention what CPU you will be using mate :)

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RobTi

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Re: recommend me a board for WHS
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2010, 07:37:12 pm »
Don't know what cpu as this will go with the board, probably an i3 530 if an intel board, but decided on gigabyte of some sort.

Robert
« Last Edit: June 02, 2010, 07:38:02 pm by RobTi »

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Re: recommend me a board for WHS
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2010, 08:29:35 pm »
Obviously the main consideration is your budget. If you can afford it I would go for DDR3 because at least you are building in a bit of futureproofing. If you look on the Gigabyte website you can choose a few boards and then compare them side by side.
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy