soldierblue
Limp Gawd
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I've got a Gigabyte UD4 on the way. Got it for ~$160.
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So EFI is basically a badder BIOS?
It's my understanding that the LBA built into current BIOSes won't handle 3TB+ hard drives. If you're planning on using hard drives larger than 2TB you'll either need an addon card or a motherboard with EFI.
It is but there's a bit more to it than that. It's my understanding that the LBA built into current BIOSes won't handle 3TB+ hard drives. If you're planning on using hard drives larger than 2TB you'll either need an addon SATA card or a motherboard with EFI.
FYI, Superbiiz now has the ASUS P8P67 PRO for $168.30, and you can use coupon code HELLO2011 for $15 off apparently. so $153.30 before shipping.
I'm super confused. I've got that mobo in my cart for the price you said, but then I saw another link to the same board, and now I've got another copy of it in my cart for $179.12. What the heck is going on here?
http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php...X-Quad-SLI-SATA3-USB3-0-A-GbE-ATX-Motherboard
same part number, i'd order the cheaper one
Obviously, but something seems strange that they're charging two different prices for the same product. For the record the cheaper one has a [FR] before it in my cart for some reason.
Should I just wait it out for Newegg's release of this board, or should I risk the high shipping and potential sketchiness of Superbiiz? I want it cheap and I want it soon.
if you're hesitant, then just wait for Newegg. i ordered this board from Superbiiz and don't particularly feel concerned.
Yeah I suppose I will, I just don't want to miss out on a great deal.
While I've got you here, can someone give me a good estimation of when I can actually place my Sandy Bridge order on newegg? I'm getting really antsy at this point.
you and me both! i don't believe there's a concrete, confirmed retail release date yet - but everything i've read says they will be available for purchase on Jan 9th. i've read around the web that people have called their local Microcenters and were told that they have the chips in stock, but can't sell them until Jan 9th.
I've got a Gigabyte UD4 on the way. Got it for ~$160.
where did you get it from? most i have seen are around $190-$200 shipped.
SuperBiiz is good guys, I've ordered from them bunches of times. Good packing, good product, no probs, etc.
Often they have better deals than newegg as well.
a (helpful) user on overlclock.net already has an i7-2600K installed with the ASUS P8P67 PRO mobo. he said that ASUS's software utility for overclocking through windows was easy and reliable. i'm interested in trying this out and testing the results against overclocking via UEFI.
UEFI looks sexy but is it actually more usable? The only time I want to see those settings is when I'm building a new pc and I don't need a fancy gui/mouse to do that.
The benefits like 3TB support are welcome and I'd rather see more things like IPMI.
Didn't the [H] review say pretty much the same thing about the MSI tool? Looks like the need for BIOS overclocking is almost dead now, with new software tools and the switch to multiplier only overclocking - not nearly as many things to tweak.
All that was needed for these overclocks was a bump to the vCore, no other tweaks were needed, just leaving everything else at default in the BIOS. We were able to achieve these overclocks from the desktop as well using the outlined Control Center II application as well. While I hate to say it, there was little or no reason to go into the BIOS once your initial system setup is accomplished.
Tech Report has a review comparo up of the Asus, Gigabyte, Intel and MSI offerings.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/20190
FYI, for anyone interested ASUS now has the Sabertooth P67 board listed on their site: http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=ZYgjt71bzlh62Zk9&templete=2
Porter - Did your Asus board ship from Ewiz? I ordered mine yesterday with 2-day air and it still hasn't shipped.
I'm just about set to buy the Gigabyte p67 UD3R board. If anyone knows any reason why I should not, speak now.
PS. I don't do SLI/XF, or any multi GPU configuration for that matter.