I know i know, i have a great system and blah blah blah.
The point is im doing it, im jumping ship and nobody can stop me so help me pick a good mobo.
Im going X58, i figured both sockets are dead at least 1366 has 32nm 6 cores available if you have $1000 to spend later on a CPU upgrade lol. Well that and the PCIe controller being on the chipset not the CPU can yield a better OC with less voltage/heat or so i have been told.
Im going to get a 920 DO and overclock it to the max with a large air cooler like the Noctua NH-D14 or Megahalems. So OC ability is very important, as well as proper VRM and chipset cooling.
Ram will be Corsair XMS3 3x2GB DDR3, either 1600 or 2000. I do not want memory to be a limiting factor in the OC and since the 920 has the lowest multiplier i figured i would need to crank up the FSB to hit 4Ghz, and then ram would come into the picture.
Must have USB 3 and SATA 3, esata would be a bonus.
Sound not relevant, i have a ASUS Xonar STX, ok i guess its relevant in the fact it needs to fit into the mobo with 2 dual slot GPU's.
GPU will be 460, soon to be SLI.
Taking all that into account i have come up with the ASUS P6X58D-E but am open to all opinions and options.
Budget under $300 for the mobo.
The point is im doing it, im jumping ship and nobody can stop me so help me pick a good mobo.
Im going X58, i figured both sockets are dead at least 1366 has 32nm 6 cores available if you have $1000 to spend later on a CPU upgrade lol. Well that and the PCIe controller being on the chipset not the CPU can yield a better OC with less voltage/heat or so i have been told.
Im going to get a 920 DO and overclock it to the max with a large air cooler like the Noctua NH-D14 or Megahalems. So OC ability is very important, as well as proper VRM and chipset cooling.
Ram will be Corsair XMS3 3x2GB DDR3, either 1600 or 2000. I do not want memory to be a limiting factor in the OC and since the 920 has the lowest multiplier i figured i would need to crank up the FSB to hit 4Ghz, and then ram would come into the picture.
Must have USB 3 and SATA 3, esata would be a bonus.
Sound not relevant, i have a ASUS Xonar STX, ok i guess its relevant in the fact it needs to fit into the mobo with 2 dual slot GPU's.
GPU will be 460, soon to be SLI.
Taking all that into account i have come up with the ASUS P6X58D-E but am open to all opinions and options.
Budget under $300 for the mobo.