Hello,
I'm looking to upgrade my system which is currently a Core 2 Duo 3.0GHz E8400. And I'm very keen to upgrade to a Hex core 1055T (for RAW image processing, movie editing and games). Obviously this means a new Mobo and DDR3 ram as well which I'm fine with.
I won't be doing crossfire so I thought an 880G chipset would be best value. Although I have a Radeon 5750 so the onboard video would be wasted.
My usual distro is Ubuntu, and it needs to have a firewire port and SPDIF audio.
Have AMD given any indications to their plans for the AM3 socket? I'd like to get at least one useful cpu upgrade out of whatever motherboard I buy.
So far I like the look of the Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H for ?60, and the phoronix article on the ASRock 880G Extreme3 was good but it's about ?84 over here.
So does anyone have any experience with these or any other suitable motherboards?
Thanks!
Evan.
I'm looking to upgrade my system which is currently a Core 2 Duo 3.0GHz E8400. And I'm very keen to upgrade to a Hex core 1055T (for RAW image processing, movie editing and games). Obviously this means a new Mobo and DDR3 ram as well which I'm fine with.
I won't be doing crossfire so I thought an 880G chipset would be best value. Although I have a Radeon 5750 so the onboard video would be wasted.
My usual distro is Ubuntu, and it needs to have a firewire port and SPDIF audio.
Have AMD given any indications to their plans for the AM3 socket? I'd like to get at least one useful cpu upgrade out of whatever motherboard I buy.
So far I like the look of the Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H for ?60, and the phoronix article on the ASRock 880G Extreme3 was good but it's about ?84 over here.
So does anyone have any experience with these or any other suitable motherboards?
Thanks!
Evan.
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