Mobo for 3 boards

[Wolferich]

My computer crashed several times during the last days and it seems that there is a failure on the motherboard. I have to replace it and intend to use this opprtunity to upgrade the CPU as well. What would be a solid and powerful chooice for my setup with a Pulsar 1 and 2 Pulsar 2 boards?

[bosone]

if you want a i7 socket 1366 the only possible choice could be the asrock x58

but i would suggest a 1156 socket.
avoid the new 1166 socket

[Wolferich]

What about Gigabyte P55-UD3 ?

[erminardi]

I use 2 Gigabyte P55-UD3L (4pci+2pcie) since 1 year.
I'm fully satisfied.
Just remember a good cooling system (this summer i had some issues for this...)

be carful only if U want to add a OCZ SSD (only third generation), the OCZ chpset dont works with P55-UD3 (it's a OCZ bug not a Gigabyte issue). first and second generation are ok.

[Wolferich]

I have ordered now and wait now for the things to arrive. I have a SSD Disk but I don't know the chipset. I hope that it will work. Thanks for the suggestions and tips.

[erminardi]

Some SSDs with Sandforce 2 controllers, like my OCZ Agility 3 have some problems (not yet solved) with INTEL chipset controller.
For now stay away from Agility3 and Vertex3. The others version are ok.

[dawman]

A wee bit OT but BSOD, and all sorts of trouble has been happening with SSDs of all controller types actually.
These things are great though when they work.
The newest Intel 520 series is the most stable, usuable SSD for sample basd speed and throughput I have seen.
I had a pair of Corsairs that were great for 6 months then things got wired when I upgrade the MSI Mobo, and lots of people had similar troubles using large sample templates.
I went back to the Raptors, but use the SSDs on my internet PC where stability isn't a factor.
But everyone I know that bought the 520 SSDs from Intel are getting goose bumps, especially with the X79/or Z68 chipsets and mobos...
Just thought I'd share in case you were using some form of sample based Orchestral stuff.

Cheers.

[Wolferich]

Everything arrived in the meantime and is already working. The SSD (Mushkin MLNSSDCL60GB-DX) works fine. I had 8 Masterverbs plus 30 Asio connections in a project before I got a PCI bandwithmessage. That seems to be quite OK for having a Pulsar 1 in my setup.

Thanks for the very good help.

[Polarity]

Any crackle & pops inside your sequencer with this Gigabyte P55-UD3?
(I dont' know what you're working with ... I use Cubase)
Thanx

[erminardi]

@Polarity: not here.

[Wolferich]

No problems at all. Everything works smooth as it should. I can recommend this setup.

[Polarity]

Thankyou!

[dawman]

Here's a great looking Scope PCI x 3 Asus board.
Super fast RAM and CPU, new parallel DIMM technology doesn;t run the RAM in series anymore, but 4 x parallel lanes.

I would get the i7 3770k and 16GB's of really fast RAM is dirt cheap now.....

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[garyb]

it looks sexy, but the architecture looks just like the other socket 1155 chipsets. it remains to be seen if the pci slots will actually work correctly.

[Polarity]

What about Gigabyte P55-UD3 ?

perhaps you wrote abouy in another topic, therefore I apologize,
but what CPU have you got with this mainboard?
thanks.

[Polarity]

I use 2 Gigabyte P55-UD3L (4pci+2pcie) since 1 year.
I'm fully satisfied.
Just remember a good cooling system (this summer i had some issues for this...)

be carful only if U want to add a OCZ SSD (only third generation), the OCZ chpset dont works with P55-UD3 (it's a OCZ bug not a Gigabyte issue). first and second generation are ok.

the same with/for you.
what CPU are you using?