What board?
What board?
Is it worth the 90 extra bucks to get a BFG Tech BFG680i SLi over a ASRock Penryn1600SLI-110dB. The only major difference that I can tell is that the BFG has two 16 lane PCIe slots and the ASRock goes to 8 lane PCIe when operating with two. If I remeber correctly there was maybe a 1-5% difference in performance. I'm thinking that the 90 would be better spent on RAM.
AMD 960T OC'ed to 4gz
ASRock 970 EXTREME4 AM3+ AMD 970
2 X G.SKILL Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000)(16gb)
EVGA SuperClocked 02G-P4-2682-KR GeForce GTX 680 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16
ASRock 970 EXTREME4 AM3+ AMD 970
2 X G.SKILL Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000)(16gb)
EVGA SuperClocked 02G-P4-2682-KR GeForce GTX 680 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16
Re: What board?
If you grab it now there is a $50 rebate on the BFG mobo.
Personally I'd want the BFG over the ASRock.
The ASRock has silly 24pin and aux 12v power placements on the motherboard
The ASRock lacks VRM and mofset heatsinks (bad for overclocking as they will get super hot)
The ASRock doesn't have a LED Post code display (you'd be amazed at how much they simplify things when something has gone wrong during post)
The ASRock doesn't have Firewire at all (so if you ever want to capture video stuff its a definate minus)
But if you don't mind not having these things, then the ASRock should be fine
Dan
Personally I'd want the BFG over the ASRock.
The ASRock has silly 24pin and aux 12v power placements on the motherboard
The ASRock lacks VRM and mofset heatsinks (bad for overclocking as they will get super hot)
The ASRock doesn't have a LED Post code display (you'd be amazed at how much they simplify things when something has gone wrong during post)
The ASRock doesn't have Firewire at all (so if you ever want to capture video stuff its a definate minus)
But if you don't mind not having these things, then the ASRock should be fine
Dan
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