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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:51:03 +0300
From: Evan Fotis <evan.fotis@gmail.com>
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yes the Gigabyte does seem better in that respect otherwise its a toss-up.
The Asus still has a firewire port :-) and a few  more usb3's.
These must be fairly recent products as I didn't find many reviews...
On 14-Sep-12 00:31, Greg Balint wrote:
> Here's a comparison on the Gigabyte and Asus Motherboards mentioned...
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=-1&IsNodeId=1&Description=gigabyte%20x79&bop=And&CompareItemList=-1%7C13-131-804%5E13-131-804-TS%2C13-128-562%5E13-128-562-TS 
>
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> The gigabyte looks like it's got an edge, by having an extra PCI-E 
> Slot, (4 instead of 3), it lists 2133 as acceptable ram, without need 
> to OC to get that speed, it's got 6 SATA 6Gb/s ports, vs the Asus 
> having only 2.
>
> Plus, I'm a gigabyte user myself, and they've always been rock-solid 
> for me.  I currently have a Gigabyte and an EVGA, both are great 
> "performance" motherboards.
>
> ///Greg Balint
> //Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
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> On 9/13/2012 5:23 PM, Evan Fotis wrote:
>> Nice config, how does the Gigabyte board compare to the  similarly 
>> priced Asus P9X79?
>>
>> FWIW, last year, had got a 12Gb pack (3x4gb) and after a while added 
>> another of the same, with no problem at all. If the mobo has the 
>> small version listed in its RAM supported list  it should support the 
>> big one too.
>> On 14-Sep-12 00:01, Greg Balint wrote:
>>> f you purchase the 2 32Gb kits, there's an off chance they don't 
>>> work well together (which is why they sell paired kits of 64Gb)
>>>
>>> Buying the 2x32 kits, you'll spend $1366 on all of it...
>>>
>>> Buying the paired 64Gb kit, you'll spend $1607 on all of it
>>>
>>> Keep in mind with high-performance Ram at those quantities, you'll 
>>> want to manually set your timings or enable XMP in your bios.. it 
>>> won't be "completely" plug - n- play.
>>
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