Hi may i ask you some advises? about buying a new motherboard i find that many supports only max 32gb ddr3 1600 and few max 64gb i don't know the current price of 16gb ,but i guess it's only €100 why do many motherboard supper only 32gb? and with a cpu like intel quad core i7 3770k 3.5ghz lga 1155 which motherboard would you buy? i'm not a gamer the more tough softwares i use are lightroom 4 and photoshop cs6 thanks
I would buy one with some good reviews (user feedback and/or professional reviews). I had a bad experience once with getting a motherboard that had only been released for about 1 month. My PC kept randomly restarting. I thought that it was a defective motherboard. It turns out that flashing the BIOS with a just released BIOS version fixed the problem. Since I am not a person who looks for cutting edge performance, I usually look at the motherboard manufacturer's website's downloads section for the motherboard. I check to see when the 1st BIOS version was released. I usually prefer that the motherboard be at least three months old and that there is at least one additional BIOS version released.
I imagine there aren't many that support 64GB because it would require 8 DIMM slots, and very few builders will ever install that amount on a current motherboard. Most are probably "getting by" with 16GB or less at this point.
Wow 32GB unless you do really RAM intensive tasks i dont even know how can an OS or a game use that amount of RAM.
64-bit or multi-threaded 32-bit processes can support 32GB of RAM, shouldn't be any issues with 64-bit OS or even 32-bit PAE OS without artificial limits. With that much memory, I'd use a RAM Disk for temporary files.
Remember that for example Windows 7 Home Premium support up to 16GB of RAM. Here are more details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx
That's why I hate artificial limits. Only 4 more GB until M$ forces me to pay up, hack into, or give up.
hi Brian what do you think about asus Z87 , i know it does need and support the new cpu -https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z87A/ plus geforce gtx 660 2gb? ps by the way where is the option in the bios to avoid to overclock the video card i mean the nvidia?
That MB is very impressive. Maybe next time. I have the ASUS GTX660 TI card. I haven't tried to overclock anything.
no i mean asus motherboard are used to overclock for example the video card with the option default or auto for example in the past the peg link mode set to auto or normal overclock the video cards thanks
you know Brian i can't understand why they put a video card in the motherboard i mean it should only work for a graphic bios or? thanks
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you asking why the motherboard has graphics hardware? That's integrated into the CPU, and the more recent chipsets make the video ports mandatory. I don't really like it because you don't get as many USB ports in the back (since all those video ports take up space). It's mainly for entry-level systems and HTPCs that may not need a lot of graphics horsepower.
