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do you wait for reviews before you buy a new motherboard or just go back buy brand a or b because you know they are tried and true?
 
Everything comes with risk.

Personally I don’t buy brand new pay out the nose stuff. I buy the brand new been on the shelf and tested a bit.

If it doesn’t have a review here then I check multiple places for customer reviews. If it doesn’t have a review I tend to pass as it’s hit or miss. Why hasn’t it been reviewed?

In short wait for some form of review.
 
Honestly? I wait for pictures of the PCB.

Barring that, or the ability to comprehend what one is looking at? Waiting, yeah; and perusing specialised forums, over and over.
* No need to rush when a new platform is out. Absolutely no need :)
 
I wait for reviews, user opinions on forums, etc. The motherboard is too important for me to rely on brand name alone, especially when it seems like all brands release a clunker or two once in awhile.
 
1. Brand

2. Features

3. Reviews

4. Price

Combine that with the knowledge that everything is a risk in life and roll the dice.
 
I always wait for reviews. Hard to trust any manufacturer and plus there's specific things I'm usually looking for (like quality of VRM heatsinks) before I buy.
 
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DrLobotomy said:
1. Brand

2. Features

3. Reviews

4. Price

Combine that with the knowledge that everything is a risk in life and roll the dice.
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funny I'm nearly exactly opposite that order. :)

at least with PC components...
 
Aenra said:
Well.. the Ultra is the lowest of the three. So it would depend on what you'd like to do and what your budget is.
Without any further context, my advice would be no. Get the 7.
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If you wish to overclock you get the one with the best vrms. That is usually the more expensive motherboard. More expensive boards tend to have more layers on the PCB which reduces rf signal noise and better executed traces and steel armor for the pciE x16 slots and memory slots. Quality of build does NOT come cheap, neither do the finest capacitors. All these factors contribute to longevity of your motherboard, best performance, and less incidents of electronic failures. Of course once in a while a pricey high end board has a glaring deficiency in design, but that is much less frequent than in economy boards.
 
I have learned to wait for reviews, kinda of a chicken before the egg scenario in my head. lol

Wont buy it if theirs no reviews... but there cant be reviews without buying it first...
 
os2wiz said:
If you wish to overclock you get the one with the best vrms
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Why are you telling me all that? :)

I was the one that suggested the 7 in the first place, because not knowing what he wants to do with it, that is the safest bet, covers him all round; OCing included.
And he didn't specify, did he ^^
 
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