Motherboard Advice

[Gwence]

Originally Posted by Feachie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

intel pricing sucks, but you get what you pay for.

ivy > sandy > bulldozer. imho wait a couple months. no current boards will support ivy bridge core.

ivy bridge cpus are going to run on socket 1155 which has been out for a while now.

[Feachie]

Originally Posted by Gwence [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

ivy bridge cpus are going to run on socket 1155 which has been out for a while now.

doesn't matter, everything i've read thus far has said the same thing. current boards, even socket 1155 ones, will not work with ivy. qpi link too slow on current boards i bet.

[Gwence]

hmm interesting, all the reviews I've read said 1155 is going to be backward compatable.

[Feachie]

must have changed. all blogs and reviews i've read (i stopped reading in july) said it wasn't compatible, but now i see one by anandtech saying it is. meh.

[Gwence]

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/new...e_motherboards

these might not be on the market in the US yet though, but their is a gen3 board from ASRock that's on newegg 1155 socket.