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[TheFiend]

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Nice. Let us know how it performs. I’ve kept my system at stock for now as I’m still having issues with the replacement Gigabyte mobo after the previous one failed and had to be RMA’d. Every so often it won’t start Windows when I’ve restarted the PC if it’s still warm and it sometimes says the BIOS is corrupted and it restores it from the back up. It’s one of those new-fangled dual-BIOS mobos and I don’t think the tech’s quite perfected yet. Might have to look at getting an Asrock mobo instead, if it keeps playing up, as the one I had before was rock solid and still works fine even though it’s getting on a bit. My average work between this machine and my lappy is currently 175 for SETI and 246 for Rosetta, so well ahead of my previous machines and currently 7 cores are devoted to the 2 projects leaving me the one for my work stuff. Well happy with that.

I’ve not had much luck with Asrock mobo’s, one was dead on arrival and 2 bricked during BIOS updates.

1st choice for me is ASUS My 2 main systems are running ROG mobos and they are solid!!! Expensive for an AMD mobo, but worth it.

2nd choice is Gigabyte, I’ve built 2 MiniITX sytems with them and they are decent enough but not great for overclocking. Had a few of the cheaper Gigabyte boards die on me over the years, but the more expensive ones seem to be better.

[Droid]

The Gigabyte board was not the most expensive, around £46, and I have had a £40 mini-ATX one for another machine previously with no major issues until it died and I installed the Asrock. Might try the Asus as they seem to get good reviews for the most part.