Re: [LAU] Intel I5 motherboards

On 15/01/2010 8:40 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> My 5 year old AMD64 machine smoked yesterday so I'm looking to
> build something new. On interesting new processor is the Intel I5-661.
> I'm wondering whether very many folks are using Intel motherboard in
> Linux DAWs? I've not used one before for any reason so it's a new
> vendor to me. The model I read about in a test document was the
> DH55TC, but I'm partial to the DH55HC as I need more than 1 PCI slot:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121396
>
> Comments and ideas welcome.

FWIW, I've been looking at Gigabyte's i5-compatible boards lately. I've
had good success with Gigabyte in the past, and the boards have been
reviewing pretty well, too. Also, if you go for one of the higher-end
models (the GA-P55A-UD4, for instance), you get Firewire ports running
from a TI chipset, which are strongly recommended when it comes to
running Firewire audio interfaces.

Thanks
Leigh

>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
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Received on Fri Jan 15 12:15:02 2010