Recommendations for a new motherboard

[lucasdaytona]

They showed much of the same stuff last year. Still no production models for sale yet.

Yeah, but ebay is ahead of our time, and already selling wall mounts for OLED TVs.

 

[Agent Orange]

Darn! I could have sworn you'd said "you will see a definite increase in performance," and here I was just getting ready to plug in another pair of NICs and at least double my download speed... ;-)

Eh, good to know you're still over there on sidelines ready to stir the pot and add your usual constructive two-bits worth. That wasn't a claim it was an observation.

 

[Compgeke]

Just curious, why would a desktop need Dual nics? I have a server that has 10x Gigabit ethernet ports and Quad 2 Gb Fibre ports, I can see that for a DHCP server or web server but not so much if I wanted to use it for a IRC client box (IRC from a 4u server...energy efficient).

 

[Agent Orange]

Geke:

I dunno. I ran both of those Gigabyte boards, the 790 & 890, when I first got them with only one LAN connector hooked up. It was only when I got around to delving into their respective manuals that I hooked up both sides. I guess one answer would be that the motherboard business is very competitive and maybe they thought they needed some kind of an edge.