The best motherboard for outdated socket 1366 cpus
This motherboard is one of the best for Intel socket 1366 cpus. It overclocks very well. Since socket 1366 cpus themselves are already somewhat dated, the value of this board depends on what you want from your computer. The board has two USB version 3.0. Therefore you can entertain a high speed connection with your USB devices. However, the PCI-E lanes are version 2.0. You can run two video cards in SLI/CF at 16x PCI-E (ver 2.0) speed. But if you want to run three cards in SLI/CF, the speed of PCI-E lanes will be 16/8/8 (ver 2.0). The current video cards including Nvidia Titan will be fine at two 16x PCI-E (ver 2.0). However, if you would like to go more than two gpus in SLI/CF, you want PCI-E (version 3.0). At this moment I would recommend this board if you upgrade your motherboard for your already-owned socket 1366 cpus. Then this board will give you the most you can expect from your cpus.
I bought two sets of this memory kit to expand the memory size of my old desktop computer with Core2 Quad 9650 from 4GB to 8GB. The Crucial memories are expensive and I didn't want to spend a lot of money for this old computer. After the installation the computer recognized the whole memory size right away. MEM86 test showed no error. It has been two weeks since I installed the memory. So far it is working well.
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02 Sep, 2013
A good card but dated. If you can get it cheap, you should be happy.
This card was great two years ago. It runs most of games well at high to max settings on a 1920x1080 display. However since at this moment there are many new cards available at around $150 which is faster than this card, the price is a very important point if you get this card now. This version of gtx 460 card has more cuda cores than other versions. Therefore this card performs better than most of other gtx 460s. If you consider water cooling, you should avoid this version since there are water blocks available only for reference-designed gtx 460. This card's PCB is not reference-designed.