It's the only form factor that makes sense for Trinity, so why do none of the OEMs have it on offer for the launch? ASRock has a product page but no existence in the channel yet.
Why don't you silly Taiwanese want my money?
Don't get the ASRock that has the electrolytic caps. Either of the other (or the ECS another mentioned) would be fine.
I do like the sale price of the Gigabyte board!
To answer the original question, YES.
AMD won't put any more R&D effort into video-on-the-chipset, it's all on the CPU die now. 880G is as good as it'll ever get.
1-year
http://www.asrock.com/support/index.asp?cat=RMA
Says so on my motherboard box as well.
Not competitive. ASRock is strictly on my do-not-buy list.
Not much to choose between them besides mATX vs ATX. They'd both be fine for overclocking and unlocking. VRM heatsink on the MSI, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. $10 price delta the deciding factor?
Do you know if your board uses DDR2 or DDR3? Can't recommend anything specifically until we know that. The question about integrated video requirement is important too.
All boards support 8GB of RAM but do you need 4 RAM slots or is 2 enough?
The lack of USB 3.0 on that Gigabyte board is a real bummer.
I also avoid ASRock at all costs because they only provide a 1-year warranty compared to the 3 years that Gigabyte and Asus do. The Biostar board looks alright to me.
The Crosshair IV is indeed the best AM3 board on the market -- a shame that AMD CPU's are inferior to their Intel i5 and i7 bretheren (this coming from an AMD fan).
The LAN and audio chipsets will be superior on the Crosshair board. A lot hinges on what you do with your system. Check the...
Stick with the 1333MHz to match what you already got. There's almost no benefit from faster RAM on LGA1156.
Might as well buy considering how cheap this upgrade is compared to the original price of your system.
They are better buying from computer manufacturers.
On-site warranty service is one VERY important factor, but an even bigger one is the tax benefits from leasing! The machines become practically free.
Another vote for marketing BS here.
Even the number of phases (which is really the only differentiator between models once you get up to about the $150 range) really makes no difference unless you're want to muck with uber-overclocking with water-cooling or liquid nitrogen.
I use the HD2000 on a i3-2100 but don't have a 30" monitor.
However both Gigabyte and Asus spec pages for Z68 boards say the maximum resolution is 1920x1200 for the DVI port. I just don't think the Sandy Bridge GPU's are dual-link DVI capable.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=195
This may not be as big a problem as it was a few years ago, but I've seen this many times and am soured on electrolytic caps for life. Today, you won't see them on any motherboard that costs more than about $75, only the ultra-low end.
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