i use AE and 3DSmax, what will be an average spec for this board? (budget $2000)
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The dual Xeon processors are going to seriously eat into your budget. Look up Cinebench results for dual 6 core and dual 8 core processors and ask yourselc how much you want to dip into your buxget for the CPU. I typically use VRay and other CPU based renering solutions rather than Octane or a GPU bqsex 4endering engine....but that is changing now that hair sims are on the GPU. Balance the CPU cores needed to render with MAX with the GPU on the video card for use with AE. No need to go with a Quadro video card..The GEforce series work with this board and you can get the Cuda cores to leverage...just check for compatibility. You can probably be fine with 32 or 64 gigs of unbuffered non ECC RAM.
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That is what I am using. works just fine. Although I do plan on getting the bigger board for more options later.
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Try the ASUS Sabertooth Z97 Mark2 board. Its around 165 - 175. Its a great board that has served me well!
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This is a fantastic board. I use photoshop, 3dsmax, and dreamweaver with this board. No problems so far!
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David, The best thing is to go to ASUS website and look at the motherboard specs.
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The Bios would need an update, I suggest going for a Z97 board, which you should easily be able to find for a similar price.
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I use the MSI-B85 Motherboard. I'd recommend this if you don't need SLI or anything too fancy.
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I've been using it for over a year, and I currently have a Intel i7 and a GTX-650 in the board. So, not super high-end yet, but looking at the power requirements for higher end cards (at least a Quadro K5000 sli'd with a Tesla K20), it'll be plenty. Oh yeah, I also have 4 hard drives in there, and a couple of peripherials that's starting to err on excessive.
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So long as your board has an available PCI-Express x16 slot (A board that supports AM3+ would appear to be new enough to have at least 1) you should be good to go.
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NOt sure, just check the Clock speed on the board, make sure it could handle 2400 Mhz Ram, not all boards can take advantage of this speed
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For the price you will get solid performance. All the specs are listed on the amazon page. The only problem I ran is with 64bit operating systems
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You will need to install a video card as this MB does not come with onboard graphics. This MB is designed for over clocking every component so you may want to get one that is not as hi9gh end as this one is unless that is the type of system yo are trying to build. Also you will have to get a video card that is for a 64 bit OS, not 32 bit. If you are just trying to build a decent gaming system that doesn't involve overclocking you may want to consider getting an Intel or Gigabit MB. If you are set on Asus then try the Saber tooth or one of their other boards. You can chat with them online during the day time hours (Pacific time). Also be aware that this board has a 2011 socket for the 6 and 8 core I7 processors and they are not cheap. Hope this provides the info you are wanting.
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my opinion, dont get this board. i had issues with it having bad DIMMs, the dual channel didnt work and kept crashing to blue sceen. just do a quick google of this board and ram issues and you will see what i had to go through. save yourself some grief and go for another board.
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While the board will accept up to 16GB of DDR3 Ram and has an x16 PCI-e slot available, the processor, while being dual core is only about 1.6GHz. I would be looking for a full size board with a faster processor..perhaps high twos to mid threes in GHz. This board would make a good system for streaming video, playing music and general day to day computing in a limited space area.
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I'm pretty sure this board isn't what you want. As I recall, the Pentium D CPU is only a DUAL-CORE device.
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There are a few things, best thing is go to asus website where you can compare different models. Hope this helps. Excellent board I must say.
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I'm using this board right now and it's pretty good. I would say any nvidia gtx hight than 600. It might be old but it performs great. Just be very gentle when installing it.