Re: Best Asus Mobo?
- From: Andrew Hamilton <Ahamilton90900@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 01:18:19 -0700
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:54:30 +0100, "Rob" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I'm not the Original Poster, but these are good questions, so I'll
answer for myself. My timeframe for my next system is 3-6 months, and
I'm willing and able to wait for a new product release if it really
hits the spot better than anything currently available.
"JohnK" <Duh@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What is (are) the best ASUS motherboards
today for Intel processors?
Why restrict to Intel. Why not AMD? (not a troll question, but an
honest question from a guy who has been very happy with AMD for
multiple product generations now)
It's a case of 'horses for courses', with there being so many.
Do you mainly want to overclock and tweak every last bit of
Sure. If the "cost" of overclocking terms of "exotic" cooling, extra
work on the heatsink interface, etc., isn't greater than the cost of a
faster CPU. Knowing how CPUs are priced, I know that you never buy
the absolute fastest CPU, or else you pay a whole lot extra for not
that much extra performance.
performance from it? Play games? Have a stable PC for
business use?
No games!
General business use, e.g. MS Office apps, but a lot with graphics.
PHOTOSHOP <---- with Nikon D3 RAW file conversions. A D3 RAW file at
14-bit depth is about 25 MB. This is probably the "benchmark"
application, not the normal word processing and such.
Do you want to use DDR2 or DDR3? Any Chipset preference?Probably DDR for performance reasons, but only if the cost premium
isn't too great.
Chipset? Shouldn't I work backwards from my requirements to get to
the chipsets that meet those requirements. (which I'm stating here).
Not a troll question.
Need firewire? More than one ethernet port? RAID (and if so,Firewire, probably not.
Two ethernet ports, maybe.
RAID - yes, RAID 5, (with four + drives). That's also a case
selection issue.
which version, and how many HD in total will you need?)
Do you need any IDE ({PATA) ports, or all SATA?
SATA for the HD, but possibly IDE for the DVD burner. Of course, DVD
burners are cheap enough that I would be willing to spring for a new
one, to keep the system all SATA.
I also need a PCI board for SCSI, since I use SCSI-based tape backup.
(exabyte)
Will you be using more than one graphics adaptor and if so,
ATI or nVidia?
As a non-game-player, I don't need multiple graphics adapters. Also,
I don't have any predetermined preference between ATI or nVidia.
The requirement IS for excellent support for graphics apps like
Photoshop (and similar photo-edit apps like Capture NX or QImage) with
support for a really large monitor with say 1920 x (whatever)
resolution at full color depth.
Also important is the ability to set up "color management" with LUTs.
My guess is that this topic is best pursued in a photo group.
By thinking about those questions, you'll probably be able to
narrow it down to 2 or 3 boards.
HTH,
Great discussion start.
-AH
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