Re: Oh, No, Not Again! - What Motherboard Should I Buy?
- From: rsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:22:55 -0700
On Oct 9, 7:35 am, Mike Rivers <mriv...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So yesterday a friend (also a studio engineer) who has assembled a
bunch of computers was visiting with me after the show, and we went to
Micro Center to look around at potential components for the new
computer that I've been promising myself that I was going to put
together (for about four years now).
Once more, I got scared and chickened out of making a purchased. This
time I wasn't concerned about under-buying, but rather about over-
buying. I'm not worried about having too much horsepower, but rather
that there now seem to be far too many setup options (including
setting the optimum operating voltage for the CPU and memory) that I
don't know how to set and I don't know how to test. My concern is that
the default settings will optimized the board for video and games,
which may not be best for audio. I'm sure it'll be OK no matter what,
but however it's set, there's probably something better.
The most attractive candidate, though I'm still not sure quite how to
make full use of it, is an Asus P5K. One interesting feature is that
there's a heat pipe that, at least in the info on the web site,
suggests that you can use a CPU without an attached fan (though there
were no photos of the board with a CPU illustrating how this would
work). That would be a nice feature.
Any thoughts, either about the board itself, my (as usual) lack of
confidence and competence as a computer technician, or the possibility
of eliminating a fan?
Would I be better off overall with a $50 Gigabyte board of something?
Mike, stick with either a real Intel board or an ASUS. Those stolen
capacitor formula problems and this damn RoHS lead free can cause
anyone to make a bad run of boards but those two mfgs seem to fare
better than most. My son just lost a Gigabyte board of 4 yr vintage.
Here was the replacement option:
ASUS P5B-V
ASUS P5K-V
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz
Zalman Cooler CNPS7700-CU
Kingston KVR667D2N5K2/1G DDR2 memory
I would have picked the P5K-V but he went for the P5B-V. It's all in a
nice Antec case with padding, a Nexus 80 plus 400W silent supply and a
couple of Western Digital 7200 RPM SATA quiet drives. Those mobos have
integrated graphics which seem to be adequate unless you are really
pushing on the graphics while running DAW mode. I'd try the integrated
before investing in an external graphics card. The whole thing runs
very quiet though I didn't measure it. Next time he has it over I
will.
bobs
Bob Smith
BS Studios
we organize chaos
http://www.bsstudios.com
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