Hi,
I'm in need of a cheap but hopefully reliable motherboard.
I would like to limit the discussion on this particular motherboard GA-H81M-S2H
I have a i5 4460, an SSD and Savage Memory Red - 8GB Kit* (2x4GB) - DDR3 1600MHz Intel XMP CL9 DIMM.
I'm a newbie so:
1) Does it support my CPU out of the box, without an BIOS update?
2) My memory will work at 1600 and not 1400?
3) It's correct that I need a motherboard with USB 3.0 headers in order to make my USB 3.0 case front panel's to work as intended?
4) Does the on board sound solution looks alright to you? I read that to avoid sound problems like hearing the scroll from the mouse in the headset or different "metal" sound, the audio chipset have to have a cage of some sort in order to be isolated from the rest of the PCB.
5) I don't understand the 300, 600 SATA too well, so how's my SSD (read/write speeds of 450/450 MB/s) going to perform on this, it is going to be limited speed-wise in any shape or form on this board or I'm good to go and I may get the advertising speeds?
Thanks
I'm in need of a cheap but hopefully reliable motherboard.
I would like to limit the discussion on this particular motherboard GA-H81M-S2H
I have a i5 4460, an SSD and Savage Memory Red - 8GB Kit* (2x4GB) - DDR3 1600MHz Intel XMP CL9 DIMM.
I'm a newbie so:
1) Does it support my CPU out of the box, without an BIOS update?
2) My memory will work at 1600 and not 1400?
3) It's correct that I need a motherboard with USB 3.0 headers in order to make my USB 3.0 case front panel's to work as intended?
4) Does the on board sound solution looks alright to you? I read that to avoid sound problems like hearing the scroll from the mouse in the headset or different "metal" sound, the audio chipset have to have a cage of some sort in order to be isolated from the rest of the PCB.
5) I don't understand the 300, 600 SATA too well, so how's my SSD (read/write speeds of 450/450 MB/s) going to perform on this, it is going to be limited speed-wise in any shape or form on this board or I'm good to go and I may get the advertising speeds?
Thanks
