Intel Sandy Bridge

[[Chris]]

Lol. I was hoping to throw another 6970 in there when the time comes along. But im going to wait for Sandy Bridge. If its TOO expensive or not worth getting, i'll go for that.

[Luke]

someone's got cash? i'm jealous.

[[Chris]]

Ive been saving up for SO long. And ive had to borrow money to get it. Which i have to work to pay back ;/

[AgnesIO]

When I built mine all this 'core i' stuff was new :L

My machine must have dropped in value.. a lot.

[[Chris]]

Thats technology for you :/ Im not bothered though, if it performs well. Theres no need to upgrade.

[Stephen!]

Hmm, a 2nd GPU? In that case I think you best go with 1366. The lower end Sandy Bridge boards will have more than one PCI-E slot, however only one of them will be full speed (x16). The rest will probably be 4x.

[[Chris]]

Yeah, i noticed that. Only Dual Channel DDR3 aswel as far as i saw?

I'll have a look at some boards now

I can just wait. see what the Release-date boards ar elike

[Stephen!]

Dual channel vs tripple channel, no performance gain at all really.

But the PCI-E could be more troubling. Unless you go for a slightly higher end board.

[[Chris]]

Yeah, i'll just have a look when the time comes.
But i chose that board in the original post because it was Triple channel (Dont need more than 6gb ram really) and had 3 Pci-e x16 slots.

[Jam]

What are the specs of the cheapest SB? I'm only doing a HTPC build but I do a boat load of encoding so it'd be nice to do it with speed. I was going to go with a i5 760 but depending on price I'l go with one of these. That and the mATX mobos have 3 or 4 PCI-e in comparison to 2, good for tuners and such.