Build Your Own - Step by Step ( i7 2600k)

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Those Coronas are hard to collect! Dang... I need to fly 5 hours to Florida...

You get a little more than the bottle in Florida Boli. This should make your 5 hour flight a little more palatable :D

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This Motherboard was posted as a 3 PCI-E 16 slot contender for Sam's build, however it didn't receive as much as an honorable mention, why?

I'm not Intel savvy, but I do notice one thing that I don't understand. On the Newegg site under the Details and Overview tabs, the information on Onboard Video Chipset is listed as NONE on both pages. But in the image of the Rear Panel Ports I see D-Sub + DVI and HDMI connections, what's up with that? Sam stated he wanted to run six monitors, with this board couldn't he get by with 1 video card (right now), running #s 1 & 2 off the onboard and run #s 3 & 4 off the video card? Am I missing something? P68 or Z67 maybe?

Impatient minds wants to know... :D

This link is the same one dcraig posted above.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128495

Impatient mind, this is the mobo I got. If I can do what you're suggesting, that could be interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/P8P67-M-PRO-R...0VEK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312745916&sr=8-1
 
Yap I agree. There is no onboard video for the ASUS card.

Besides the socket (LGA 1155 - for i5-2600k processor), you need to look at the chipset of choice for the motherboard. The Gigabyte and ASUS boards are different. One is P67 and one is Z68.

From this page:

http://rethinkthought.com/intel-sandy-bridges-h67-p67-and-z68-differences-explained/

H67 – Onboard graphics are enabled, while overclocking is disabled
P67 – You need a graphics card for this chipset – onboard graphics is disabled, however overclocking is enabled here
Z68 – You guessed it…best of both worlds. Onboard graphics are enabled, as is overclocking


Adding graphics cards are no big deal. Just $20 a card is really great.



Explanation of chipset (slightly dated but you get the idea):

http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk/Articles/Motherboard/chipset.shtml

The small guy on the motherboard is the intel chipset (P67 for that ASUS board, Z68 for that Gigabyte board):

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This guy... it was covered by the ASUS heatsink.
 

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You get a little more than the bottle in Florida Boli. This should make your 5 hour flight a little more palatable :D

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Oh boy.....

You can keep the Corona and I will take the rest... :D
 
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Oh boy.....

You can keep the Corona and I will take the rest... :D

:D wait a minute .... " Would you do ' .... oh nevermind LOL


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Besides the socket (LGA 1155 - for i5-2600k processor), you need to look at the chipset of choice for the motherboard. The Gigabyte and ASUS boards are different. One is P67 and one is Z68.



excellent post
 
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The feedback from Bolimomo and myself should have helped to answer this. :cool:

Absolutely, thanks fellas, as I said, "I'm not Intel savvy" and little did I know the Z68 was the latest and greatest chipset out of Intel. I think the key word is OPTIONAL, if you don't want the Onboard Video, shop around and find just what your looking for.
 

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You get a little more than the bottle in Florida Boli. This should make your 5 hour flight a little more palatable :D
You better be careful there Sam, I know Boli likes to travel and if he can pick up $150.00 installing a couple cards for LeapUP he might just show up on your doorstep!
 

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These chipsets are beautiful...

All these I/O functions... dealing with keyboard, moust, parallel port, floppy drive, Ethernet, etc... used to be separate cards that you install on a computer. Now the processor chip maker (i.e. Intel versus the other guy LOL)... has integrated these functions down on the same silicon IC.

(But I still miss the days where I connect these components separately! LOL Makes me feel important that I "know" what goes where... :D )

I will not drive cars with automatic transmissions! LOL

*sigh* now cars can do its own parallel parking...
 
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