Asus, MSI or Gigabyte mobo?

hi

what motherboard is the best of these tree?

asus: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131405

msi: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130239
or
gigabyte: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128400&Tpk=GA-P55-UD4

All 3 are extremely good. We are all a little partial and favour Gigabyte, but IMO go with the one that is cheapest.

I will be building a computer this Wednesday with the MSI GD65. So if you hold out till then I can tell you my impressions of the board then.

ASUS is a good board when you finally get it working right. But not a good board for the inexperienced. Usually more difficult with tech support, and with the manual, compared to the other two.

I am partial to the MSI, because of ease of use, and a history of long life with few problems... and generally better tech support.

The Gigabyte is a good board, would win second place for tech support.

NewEgg does a good job of filtering out the turkey boards, because they don't like to deal with returned problem boards, so generally, any board on the NewEgg website is probably a good choice.

as Rit said, all three are very good. they all use high quality Japanese capacitors (nippon/sanyo) Gigabyte has a edge in a few areas. they have a reputation for having the highest manufacturing standards in the industry, they also use the most copper in their PBC's so the cooling is better (particularly the NB) and generally has a slight OC advantage over MSI. all three are excellent and I would rate them as
1. Gigabyte
2. Asus
3.MSI
....but not by a large margin between them

since its the first time i`m gonna build, asus is not the choise because raybay says its not good choise for a newbie like me. hehe. and msi is the easiest to use.

Ritwik7 and red1776 means gigabyte is the best,
so the battle is between gigabyte and msi.

what is the best choise to this setup?, if its all fits together:stickout::
PSU: CORSAIR 650W
GPU: Sapphire HD 4770 512MB gddr5 PCI-E
HDD: WD Caviar Black 750GB 32MB 7200RPM
CPU: Intel Core i7 860 2,8Ghz Socket 1156
RAM: Corsair TWIN3X 1600MHz DDR3, 8GB CL9 Kit 4x2GB
Soundcard: Creative SB X-FI Titanium

the reason why i have changed from socket 1366 to 1156 its cheaper and a little better CPU for the same price.

Ritwik7 said:
I will be building a computer this Wednesday with the MSI GD65. So if you hold out till then I can tell you my impressions of the board then.

Yeah, that whould be great:grinthumb
I`m looking forward to hear about your impressions with the msi mobo.
its probably not before december i starting to build it, so its gonna be my own chrismas present. yeay

Ray, as I can see just from looking at the Boards you posted, you might want to get a different Processor, the i7 820 won't work in an i5 Board.

According to the specs

Also, the board is paired with a Core i7 for a discount, and people in the reviews have said it works well with the i7

I personally would go with the Gigabyte for ease of use and all of the extra software features the company is known to provide.

The joy of building your own PC is being able to choose what hardware you get to put inside. While its good to ask for input, be sure you're making your own decisions.

Also, keep in mind this board supports SLI support. There's much upgrade capability in the future.

Wow, I learned something tonight, I thought that the i5 and i7 Chips were two completely different Sockets. Teaches me for not knowing too much about Intels Chips eh? lol

0f course, as with you I am sure, I have several computers. My regular standby is neither of those, but it changes every month or two.

Yes, I do have several Computers, but mose of them are used at Test Systems. (Testing for Hardware Failure and such) my main one is going to go through an Overhaul here pretty soon. (new case and hopefully Motherboard.)

I think you should go with the GIGABYTE GA-P55M-UD2 LGA 1156 Intel P55 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail$110, and buy yourself a marginally better graphics card, maybe a 5750.
Consider the i5-750 too, good money saver.

uhm.................the gigabyte ga-p55m-ud2 does not have any pci-e x1 slot, soundcard requires one..........i think

Hi RayRay. I haven't yet put together that system for my friend. Have purchased all the parts. Just hold on a couple of days. Will let you know what I think of that MSI board.

that would be great Ritwik

I think it does in fact have one, and soundcards only need a PCI.

it says something else here

http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=208&product=17927&nav=1

Either way, the motherboard does support it.
I hope, you have me worried now, anyone else want to confirm?

oooooooooohhhhhh....... sorry

I thought that the soundcard needed a short PCI-E, but now it seems like it doesnt matter how big the PCI-E slot is, only it is a PCI-E

Right?