I've just seen the new Corsair 900D and i'm smitten. Can anyone recommend a good E-ATX, XL-ATX, HP-ATX sized motherboard that is designed for an enthusiast rather than a standard power user or what ever you want to call someone who needs the power for an office enviroment?
E-ATX boards are usually dual socket, and we're looking at prices well above $400 for the board alone. For a dual socket system you'll also need a pair of Xeons that support dual socket operation, and there's a big price premium for the Xeon name as well as the dual socket support. No overclocking on these boards either. E-ATX is being phased out anyway. Most dual socket boards seem to be plain ATX nowadays. E-ATX pretty much out of question unless you want to pay a kidney for old tech.
It's too broard a question anyway. What platform? You building frm scratch, or already have CPU etc? Not many E-ATX boards around. EVGA SR-2 springs to mind though, but what do you want to do with it? My Rampage Extreme IV is larger than standard ATX and it's a killer board if you have a LGA2011 cpu to stick in it.
Old school Asus P6T7 WS Revo here, 7 off 16x PCI-E slots, 4 GHz (i7 960) many SATA/SAS options, and rock solid stable 24/7. HTH dunx
Has anyone read anything on Asus Rampage V Extreme vs Asus Rampage IV Extreme? Since i've read allot about sandy bridge vs ivy bridge and the difference is negligible (5% performance boost vs lower temps) especially as Haswell is going to be running a different socket to ivy bridge.
I still haven't been able to find anything on Asus Maximus V Formula vs Asus Rampage IV running similar spec cpu's, any pointers?
What do you mean by similar spec'd CPUs? One's AMD, the others Intel so there is no similar spec to be honest.