Intel LAN VS Killer LAN

[dqwong]

I guess it competition thats making Asus including all the extra stuff to make themselves standout from the rest. Though I feel all these are not needed at all. I don't take them into consideration when I purchase mobo. I only look at overclockability. I don't really care about warranty even.

Anything that affects overclockability I take into consideration. EG MOSFETs, how beefy they are, how good are the components like capacitors used etc....

Thats why I like ROG boards and the MSI M Power boards and I am more than willing to pay a premium for them.

Paying premium is only good if you intend to overclock and have your system run for 24/7 or having a gaming rig(PCMasterRace class).

. Most typical home users don't require all the fancy features and is better off with just buying a Intel NUC/Brix imho.

Overclockabilty on current Haswell chips are limited by the TIM used. Any Z87/Z97 will overclock to 4.2-4.4GHz on Air.

In my opinion, Asus boards are for power users, they have great hardware validation and should work very well with all sorts of different add-on card like RAID cards, Server NICs or other PCI-E cards.

I tried installing a server class I350-T4 Adapter on a Gigabyte H77 M-ITX board, and the dual channel 16GB ram only shows up as 8GB single channel.

 

[escksu]

Paying premium is only good if you intend to overclock and have your system run for 24/7 or having a gaming rig(PCMasterRace class).

. Most typical home users don't require all the fancy features and is better off with just buying a Intel NUC/Brix imho.

Overclockabilty on current Haswell chips are limited by the TIM used. Any Z87/Z97 will overclock to 4.2-4.4GHz on Air.

In my opinion, Asus boards are for power users, they have great hardware validation and should work very well with all sorts of different add-on card like RAID cards, Server NICs or other PCI-E cards.

I tried installing a server class I350-T4 Adapter on a Gigabyte H77 M-ITX board, and the dual channel 16GB ram only shows up as 8GB single channel.

Haswell OC sucks...... Even when I remove the TIM and use the "best" thermal grease ever....The liquid pro (liquid metal grease which has best thermal conductivity). I still manage 4.8GHz only.....No 5GHz........

Oh, I tried the i350-T2 before..... Cause install to play with it lor USe TOE etc.... but then.... no difference.

Also tried their RAID card with those onboard co-processors...... but its even slower than our onboard RAID....lol....

So, I realise one thing, for the highest throughput, simplicity is the best. Less overhead. Cause for us end users, throughput matters most. WE don't create much overhead for CPUs with our LAN and even RAID, unlike server which has to serve many users.

The network traffic can bog down a server so TOE helps. But it does not affect end users due to low volume of traffic. But the extra overhead TOE creates may slow things down.

 

[longsiew]

Just get the cheapest will do.

Let yr wallet be the winner