what is the best gigabite motherboard now for i7

[jame2011]

best board that guaranty to work on most component with the multibeast.

looking around $150

 

[MacMan]

best board that guaranty to work on most component with the multibeast.

looking around $150

Which i7?
ITX, M-ATX or ATX?
What features are must haves versus nice to have?

 

[cakemonster]

best board that guaranty to work on most component with the multibeast.

looking around $150

If you don't mind going P55, the p55m-ud4 is a really good board which can be found on ebay for $80 or so. It does not have SATA3 or USB3, but it works very well (See my build, lnx2macs build)...has 889a audio which is as native as audio gets.

http://lnx2mac.blogspot.com/p/perfect-hackintosh.html

Drop in a i5-750 or i7-860 and it will work very well.

For SB, I am still trying to figure out the best board myself...Looks like the Gigabyte ones are best supported for now, but Tony's guide will be the bible when that comes out...

 

[jame2011]

best board that guaranty to work on most component with the multibeast.

looking around $150

Which i7?
ITX, M-ATX or ATX?
What features are must haves versus nice to have?

i7---2600 2nd generation. Not the 2600k upper class.

looking for a good gigabite usb 3.0 and maybe some with sata 6gb/s...

 

[cakemonster]

best board that guaranty to work on most component with the multibeast.

looking around $150

Which i7?
ITX, M-ATX or ATX?
What features are must haves versus nice to have?

i7---2600 2nd generation. Not the 2600k upper class.

looking for a good gigabite usb 3.0 and maybe some with sata 6gb/s...

I am looking for similar...I am learning toward the below if helpful to you...

I am looking for a computational machine MB, mild OC to low to mid 4 ghz, stability with constant (24-48 hours at a time all cores maxed) use. I was thinking of a i7 960 for a while now that they are under $200 new, but the MB's remain expensive.

I am thinking of dropping an i7 2600k into a

GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3

For comparison...

http://www.gigabyte.com/microsite/279/i ... Integrated

Pretty good deal on this right now...

http://www.microcenter.com/specials/ema ... eNews.html

http://www.microcenter.com/single_produ ... id=0364087

At $69 for the MB even if I fry it while waiting for Tony's recs it will be OK.

I won't be doing SLI and actually won't even have a monitor hooked up to it, will just VNC from another machine and start tasks...Will just drop in the cheapest video card I can find for setup.

This MB appears to be working...

viewtopic.php?f=79&t=20943

viewtopic.php?f=79&t=19446&start=40

My only concern is that it is the "low end board" and I know quite a few folks fried their p55m-ud2's OCing them...It has everything I need though...(I don't need a bunch of graphics cards or more slots)...

Given integrated graphics are not working there is not a huge benefit of Z68 over P67 for me, so if there is a cheap P67 board that would be better I would be interested in that as well. But if the Macbook ever comes out and uses them and we can it would be nice to have a enabled board I guess.

I am looking forward to Tony's guide...or any input Macman can provide as well...

 

[SPerk15]

I'm getting a 2600k soon and getting the GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 board. a little above 150 but has so many things going for it. Many onboard video options in case your graphics card ever goes kaput, I just like having all the options. Plus Virtue support