- May 31, 2012
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I want a Gigabyte board because I am building a dual boot gaming PC and Hackintosh.
Looking at the: GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H
Thoughts on this, VS say the Sniper 3 or another board?
Things that are important to me:
* Lots of SATA ports (I have 8 internal drives - 2 SSDs, 5 HDDs, and 1x Optical) - and may want to expand more (I do video editing)
* USB 3.0 ports (the more the merrier) - external high speed HDDs
* I would like to be able to add in thunderbolt someday down the road, but I can do that via a PCI-E card.
* I want great audio to plug in to my receiver/home theatre.
* I doubt I'll ever do SLI
* any need to bother with mSata?
* Bluetooth & WiFi are both something that I may need. Should I get it integrated, or I could add on via USB bluetooth. WiFi is a nicety but in reality I will be on wired connection most of the time
Looking at the: GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H
Thoughts on this, VS say the Sniper 3 or another board?
Things that are important to me:
* Lots of SATA ports (I have 8 internal drives - 2 SSDs, 5 HDDs, and 1x Optical) - and may want to expand more (I do video editing)
* USB 3.0 ports (the more the merrier) - external high speed HDDs
* I would like to be able to add in thunderbolt someday down the road, but I can do that via a PCI-E card.
* I want great audio to plug in to my receiver/home theatre.
* I doubt I'll ever do SLI
* any need to bother with mSata?
* Bluetooth & WiFi are both something that I may need. Should I get it integrated, or I could add on via USB bluetooth. WiFi is a nicety but in reality I will be on wired connection most of the time