medjohnson77
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In what way do the new 1156 socket MOBO's have less on them then AMD's am3 socket type MOBO's ? I mean yes I'm fully aware of the PCI-e difference when your running two GPU's because on the 1156 you can only run x8 x8 where as the am3 socket type boards you can have two x16 PCI-e .. But other than that what else extra features do the AMD boards offer that the new 1156 socket MOBO's don't offer?
Both of them can be expanded to 16Gb's of RAM. So as far as memory their upgrade possibilities are roughly same if not at least close. Also in all the Multi-GPU set-up test that AnandTech performed the Intel Core i7 870 did basically exactly the same FPS rates that the AMD 965BE did... Now trust me I know I don't know a ton about computers so I'm not trying to act like I think I do or anything, I would just like to try to understand both sides of the argument since everyone is mostly on the Intel side of the fence its interesting to get to hear the other side of things. Seeing as with everything there is always two sides to every story.
Both of them can be expanded to 16Gb's of RAM. So as far as memory their upgrade possibilities are roughly same if not at least close. Also in all the Multi-GPU set-up test that AnandTech performed the Intel Core i7 870 did basically exactly the same FPS rates that the AMD 965BE did... Now trust me I know I don't know a ton about computers so I'm not trying to act like I think I do or anything, I would just like to try to understand both sides of the argument since everyone is mostly on the Intel side of the fence its interesting to get to hear the other side of things. Seeing as with everything there is always two sides to every story.
That is a reasonable question, And you hit it on the head, Its the PCI-e lanes. Even back when I build my x2 6400 build, I went with a quality mother board with 16x16 on the lanes instead of the cheaper Asus mother board with only 8x8. Maybe I just bought into the hype and spent an extra $50 at the time for nothing, however I did pick up the on board Wifi with that price. I understand that AnandTech did bench's on it to test this, however with new cards coming out(5800 series) I would not want a board with lesser pci-e lanes then 16x16 for CF setups in my gaming rig. We will see when the new cards are out if it bottle necks the performance on them or not. I think, and this is just my opinion, not fact, that we are going to see some interesting things performance wise with AMD's new hardware. If you look at some of the boards for the I5's, the cheaper ones, around $100 dollars, are they running just one lane at x16, or is it @x8? Just seems to me that they have really skipped on these boards, and the ones that cost $200 and even $229 only run at 8x8. Time will tell if this hurts performance or not.