MSI Big Bang Xpower and Corsair H50

[ithehappy]

If Asus Sabertooth is enough then I will go for it. Why I considered the big bang xpower was that they wer giving a dedicated sound card and many of them told me that there are rma problems with rashi(asus). For some reason I personally like MSI.

For the GTX 580 should i go for MSI or ZOTAC? I heard zotac has 3+2 year warranty. How is the rma with them? and are both reference boards? In terms of quality which is better?

regarding the speakers instead of the 5.1 i thought of getting the altec lansing MX6021(expressionist ultra) for 8.5k with 200w RMS. I guess a powerful 2.1 will do it for me.

Yes, Sabertooth, Gigabyte UD3R and MSI boards are very good.
If I had to made the choice then I would go for MSI over Zotac.
And if you don't need 5.1 then go for 2.1, and the mentioned speaker is great. I had Altec Lansing, they are Brilliant.
And also don't forget to get a high DPI Mice and a good mat.

 

[msaiashwin]

As i told u i hav a budget of 1.5 lakh i have enough room to invest on a good motherboard and planning around 18k for the board. I am in the finaling stage of my config but donno which of these two boards i shortlisted is good. Just tell me which of these two is good.

1. MSI big bang xpower
2. Gigabyte ga-X58A-UD7
Also i am saving some money to buy a good second generation SSD which will coming soon and will be lot cheaper.

What is the price of APC 1kVA(BR 1000IN)?

 

[Ishu Gupta]

I prefer UD7. APC is 5k.

 

[monkey]

Zotac GTX580 is for 29k and not 31k. So 2k is saved from it also.

 

[msaiashwin]

Guys one more problem.. The shop keeper is offering me ASUS Rampage III extreme board for around 22k. Now i am in a fix.. Which one should i buy please help.
Some of the people say that there are problems with ASUS. How is the quality of ASUS boards?

Help me choose from one of these 3:

1.ASUS Rampage III extreme: 22K
2. Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7: 18.5k
3. MSI Big Bang Xpower: 17K

 

[vwad]

Guys one more problem.. The shop keeper is offering me ASUS Rampage III extreme board for around 22k. Now i am in a fix.. Which one should i buy please help.
Some of the people say that there are problems with ASUS. How is the quality of ASUS boards?

Help me choose from one of these 3:

1.ASUS Rampage III extreme: 22K
2. Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7: 18.5k
3. MSI Big Bang Xpower: 17K

Go for Gigabyte. I have heard least bad comments about every single product of Gigabyte. Their quality has been wonderful.

 

[Reaper_vivek]

Why not go with i7 980extreme as the proccy..
Now before calling this suggestion absurd, I want to point out that you are spending 1.5 lacks ON A PC..these things are NEVER future proof for that kind of investment..
I agree with ithehappy here that apart from cabby, psu and maybe the monitor everything's gonna luk mediocre to u a year from now.

I know all these suggestions somewhat end up confusing u, been there done that, but u seriously should spend more on the proccy(in this case 980X.. 6 cores 32nm 12mb l3 cache and god knows what else) if u are gonna spend more on the mobo and less on the proccy then no one's stopping u..but with that much dough u gotta think about where it goes..

Its priced around 50k now and being practical if u take out some parts from what jas suggested u will be getting a rig to kill for..
Single u2311h.. 15k saved
no ssd for now.. 25k saved
that's 40k..35k goes for the proccy and u get 5k saved if u wanna go for rampage(not adviced at all) and u can work out on other things too like the mouse..

I'm typing this from my cell as the net has been down for days now..and it's no fun typing with mobile..but i had to do it for the above mentioned reasons and..so IMO this is the best u are gonna get for the price.. But YOU are the boss here..think about it real hard and then spend ur money..

Though if u are interested there are various other options u can go for like spending a bit on a powerful yet not over the top pc and consoles and stuff like that..that's an entire diff matter..

 

[S_V]

Guys,

Future proof is a myth and what if person BUYS Mercedes or other High End thinks of future proof.. Still majority sells in just 1 or 2 years goes to current model cars.. Similarly with electronics... Likes them and you have money? Buy it and enjoy it.. Forget about future proof because there is no product out there which will overcome Future proof issues. you can't enjoy anything to the fullest if you keep on looking for future proof..

only thing you should look whether the available options are good or not.

that's my opinion No offence to anyone


Did anyone thought i7,i5 will get destroyed in just 2.5 Years... NOPE .. YES sand bridge processors will destroy all benchmark and performance results when compared to i7,i5 as well as considering Price for value..

@msaiashwin

ASUS and Gigabyte both are very good products.. I rate ASUS above gigabyte based on my experience.. YES, both falls in same level in headaches.. They have their own problems. NONE are perfect.. But to me... With ASUS i had no problems and even if there are,they got solved in BIOS updates and little tweaking in BIOS too... . Some goes same with GIGABYTE. but their BIOS interface is crap compared to good neat BIOS of ASUS.

when comes to Models...

1. ASUS Rampage III extreme : This board is also called BEAST of Overclocker boards. YES, it ramps through UD7, BIG BANG if you know how to handle that BEAST in OC'ing . If you are not that into OC.. this board is def'ly not for you.. So skip this one..

But here you have one advantage , the x16 slots are placed really well with PCI interface together. so with large cards SLI ,still you can use PCI slot..

2. Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 : This Board is also good as well as price but this board is not famous like UD3 or UD5. Not much into this board. Yeah, you can consider this one but make sure you studies very well about UD7. UD series especially with some boards lot of RAID issues are there..
same just like ASUS , x16 slots are placed well. This board is compared with ASUS Rampage II extreme not with III extreme.

@MSI Big Bang Xpower : Well this board is good but i would MSI least preference of all brands becoz of inconsistent results over these years.... But quality wise they are good too..
Biggest issues with this board is there is no PCI slot and later if you want to add any PCI interface like LAN, Sound card, TV Tuner ,etc,, you really can't place it only to go with USB options where they lack performance in many models.. What if you lost onload lans after warranty period.. you can't use PCI lan card . Only PCI 1x is present.. once it is occupied you can't much add ..

If you really don't use 3 way or 4 way SLI or CF, i would stay away from this one.

 

[Reaper_vivek]

Exactly my point..u buy high-end stuff and then it gets replaced by newer, better stuff.. If a guy has decided to spend a certain amount of money for a certain product he should buy the best product available for that price..
And for a gaming rig the 2 most imp factors are cpu and gpu..as he has already decided on the fastest single gfx caaaard i advised to go for 980X..

 

[S_V]

But 980X is too overrated for it's price..... unless he's in need of that

 

[Reaper_vivek]

1.5 lakh is not over the top spending then????

It's not overrated...it may be overpriced...two completely different things...And it was a suggestion for OP...if i were spending that much money atleast i want the product to be way more than satisfactory..