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    Question need help chosing between 2 Motherboards

    Hi,

    I'm building a new rig, but can't chose between motherboards.
    Rig: http://azerty.nl/winkelmandje/winkel...%5B424923%5D=1

    Motherboards:

    -ASRock P67 Pro3 SE http://azerty.nl/8-2528-404966/asroc...html#kenmerken
    -Gigabyte GA-P67A-D3-B3 (rev. 1.0) http://azerty.nl/0-2528-401998/gigab...html#kenmerken

    sites are in dutch, but specs should be understandable

    ASRock seems to me to be superior in all aspects, except for one I'm not sure about

    Gigabyte has x16,x4 PCI-E slots, and I can't find out what slots ASRock has.
    Im planning on using this Mobo with I5-2500k and a Radeon 6950.

    Which of these would you guys recommend?
    Last edited by MythiaX; 2011-10-11 at 03:14 PM. Reason: added links

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    DONT save on motherboard - get a asrock p67 pro3 rev3 WITHOUT SE
    That one with SE got a bad power section, so you wont really be safe with overlocking a cpu like you have, and it has a looooooot of potential

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    Quote Originally Posted by deviancee View Post
    DONT save on motherboard - get a asrock p67 pro3 rev3 WITHOUT SE
    That one with SE got a bad power section, so you wont really be safe with overlocking a cpu like you have, and it has a looooooot of potential
    do you mean this one by chance? http://azerty.nl/0-2528-393569/asroc...html#kenmerken

    It seems to have weird PCI-E, only 1x 16? So that would mean no room for crossfire in the future?

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    if you plan on xfire in the future, go with stronger psu.
    Strength of psu slowly vanishes over time and 600w for dual hd 6950 is already stretching it imo.
    Go for some 750w from corsair to have a little bit of headroom and possible mild overclock.
    I personally would go Corsair AX850 tough. A lot of headroom, fully modular, would operate under smaller load and therefore extend its life and would work quiter.
    So 750w corsair psu to be safe
    850w corsair psu to have much headroom for overclock and other small bonuses i mentioned


    As for the motherboards, i have no time to check them out atm so i will jsut say the gigabyte is superior quality on regular basis.
    What you want however is 2 PCi lanes that would work at 8x/8x in xfire. 16/4 aint really worth it for xfire/sli and 16/16 isnt worth the money (less than 5% improvement over 8/8)

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    This motherboard is not "cheap" but not expensive as all get out and will cover a basic to mid level gamer in that you can sli/cfx its not the greatest but budget oriented power

    http://azerty.nl/0-3023-436516/asroc...-gen3-moe.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Milkshake86 View Post
    This motherboard is not "cheap" but not expensive as all get out and will cover a basic to mid level gamer in that you can sli/cfx its not the greatest but budget oriented power

    http://azerty.nl/0-3023-436516/asroc...-gen3-moe.html
    And what about my other motherboard choice, the fairly cheap gigabyte?
    If I won't be using crossfire, will it suffice?

    http://azerty.nl/0-2528-401998/gigab...-rev-1-0-.html

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