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Old January 25, 2011, 04:45 PM
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That first Asus board looks nice...10 usb 3.0 Meow!!
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Old January 26, 2011, 02:45 AM
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The only thing making me wonder about the sabertooth is that you need a top down cpu cooler to circulate the air. I have the Noctua nhd14 which is a side by side cooler. Right now my money is sitting on the UD7, but it's still a very expensive board.
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Old January 26, 2011, 03:15 AM
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MSI boards use UEFI and from what I've heard they seem to be pretty solid boards.
Every article I've read has no mention about UEFI, where are you getting this from?
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Old January 26, 2011, 03:50 AM
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A friend have MSI P67S-C43 and it has UEFI BIOS.
BTW I'm pretty happy with my ASRock P67 Extreme4.
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Old January 26, 2011, 04:35 AM
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Every article I've read has no mention about UEFI, where are you getting this from?

UEFI are all around
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Old January 26, 2011, 05:08 AM
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The only thing making me wonder about the sabertooth is that you need a top down cpu cooler to circulate the air. I have the Noctua nhd14 which is a side by side cooler. Right now my money is sitting on the UD7, but it's still a very expensive board.
No, you don't actually need a downdraft cooler.
There is a slot where the NB would be on a board, a fan is fitted to that and provides the air circulation.

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Anyway The dress does not really makea difference. since it's in plastic, it's more for the look than for the cooling.
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Well the other thing I have to consider is running eyefinity with crossfire will I need to x16 pcie lanes? or is two x8 fine? As that does narrow down the search since I plan on 5760x1080.
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2 X 8X is far enough.
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any reason not to look at gigabyte? i personally love their boards they make good stuff
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