Highwayman
Extraordinary Member
I'm preparing to upgrade my rig and found this nice revised board by Gigabyte called the GA-EP43T-USB3 which from the technical brief is a Intel P43 chipset board that's been out for a few years that they have recently updated and slapped in a nice NEC USB-3 set of ports on. I'm wanting to continue with my Q6600 cpu as I don't really need a i7 setup for now, based on any of the games simply a better GPU will have more impact when paired up with a mobo that has the extra grunt of PCIE2 bandwidth and some Gskill Ripjaw 1600 DDR3 ram, or so I believe.
At the minute I'm considering getting a GTX-285 or something around that price range (maybe a 5850 or Fermi unless cost far more at the time), so was wondering anyone got one of the mobos? and how they performing?
Also is MICRON 1600 DDr3 any good on Gigabyte mobos? or should I stick to the G-Skill ones I mentioned?
At the minute I'm considering getting a GTX-285 or something around that price range (maybe a 5850 or Fermi unless cost far more at the time), so was wondering anyone got one of the mobos? and how they performing?
Also is MICRON 1600 DDr3 any good on Gigabyte mobos? or should I stick to the G-Skill ones I mentioned?
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