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1. Re: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 or ASUS P6T?
JSS1138 Oct 5, 2009 8:27 PM (in response to nados)Get the cheaper one.
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2. Re: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 or ASUS P6T?
Harm Millaard Oct 6, 2009 4:17 AM (in response to nados)The Gigabyte does have a 2-port eSATA bracket plus the cables in the standard package. I looked over some reviews and it has everything you may need. It's overclocking capabilities are maybe even better than the P6T. Availability and price would be the overriding factor here, both boards are well suited. The fact that there are 10 SATA ports on-board on the Gigabyte may in certain situations be an advantage.
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3. Re: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 or ASUS P6T?
nados Oct 6, 2009 7:39 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)The only reason i'm leaning toward the GIGABYTE board, other things being somewhat equal to the ASUS board, is its 10 sata ports. I currently have in the case:
2 - (DVD) - sata DVDRW drives
1 - (BR) - sata BLU-RAY drive
1 - (SYSTEM) - sata WD 160gb - 7200rpm 8mb cache caviar blue drive
1 - (CACHE) - sata WD 500gb - 7200rpm 16mb cache caviar blue drive
2 - (WORK) - sata Seagate 500gb - 7200rpm 32mb cache barracuda drives Raid-0 volume
A total of 7 sata ports required.
I'd prefer to either have:
- add 2 more sata drives to the (WORK) Raid-0 volume.
or
- add a sata drive to (CACHE) to make it a Raid-0 volume for faster scratch/render/page file i/o.
and
- add a (STORAGE) sata drive.
A total of 9 sata ports required.
I do understand that using a good sata 4 or 8 port controller card would be better than using the onboard sata controllers for the CACHE and WORK volumes, but it's just too much money to spend at this time.
In any case, thanks for the input.
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4. Re: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 or ASUS P6T?
Harm Millaard Oct 6, 2009 8:06 AM (in response to nados)Given those considerations, I would probably opt for the Gigabyte, especially since they seem to have overcome their quality problems from some years ago.
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5. Re: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 or ASUS P6T?
nados Oct 6, 2009 8:37 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)yea... and it would only be $30 more than what i originally paid for the P6T at Newegg.
I'll mull it over and make my decision tonight.... P6T - UD5 - P6T - UD5...........
Thanks.
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6. Re: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 or ASUS P6T?
Bill Gehrke Oct 6, 2009 1:26 PM (in response to nados)I am wondering why you would want two DVD drives and a Blu-ray drive?
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7. Re: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 or ASUS P6T?
nados Oct 6, 2009 4:39 PM (in response to Bill Gehrke)If the case could hold 3 more dvd drives for a total of 5, i would stick them in. There are some live performances i shoot throughout the year that customers want to purchase as dvd's. The more i can crank out a once the faster i can get the job done and sell the dvd's.
Some of the live performances are shot in HDV with a smaller number of customers wanting HD copies - hence the Blu-Ray burner.
And yes, i know i can just go and buy a dvd/bl-ray duplication system to off load the duplication work - i will evenually - just not now.



