Product reviewsIntel Desktop Board DQ77MK G39642-500 Motherboard Socket 1155

Still very good 10 years on

This is still a very useful motherboard 10 years after launch, especially if you have high quality firewire devices or esata enclosures which modern boards don't cater for. I'm running this with 16GB RAM and a modern PCI-E GPU and it's even good as a modern gaming machine at 1080p. Despite being a compact M-ATX board it has so much built-in that you might never need the 3 PCI-E slots and 1 old PCI slot. I have two very old Intel boards, this DQ77MK and a DQ67SW, as well as a current AM4 board with latest Ryzen 5 and DDR4. Yes the newer AMD stuff is faster but this DQ77MK plus an old i-7 and plenty of RAM is really not that far behind. You'd never notice a difference in typical home/office use, and it turns out that a modern CPU's extra security precautions and virtualisation of core OS elements means they are much slower than they could be, and that the old gear is just about as good for gaming too, in some respects better, because latency really matters in a game, where it doesn't in CAD or image and video processing. To paraphrase Mark Twain: buy Intel boards, they've stopped making them.Read full review...

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