Shawn
Lexus? Oh shi-
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My current desktop, which is an E8400 based machine, has been giving me trouble for a few months now. It was never problem free anyway, so I'm giving you guys a second chance hoping you do good by me.
I struggled for a while about the form factor. Part of me felt or feels that big old desktops are kind of a thing of the past, but after looking at my options I see that building a desktop is still by far the most sensible.
Last time around I bought an HTPC case but it's kind of pointless because it's still a full ATX, so it's basically a mid tower on its side... so I'm not going after that type this time.
But as I said the idea of a traditional full or even mid ATX tower seems old fashioned to me, so I started thinking about going mATX maybe.
Now here is my question, is there any drawbacks to mATX other than the obvious which is the loss of a few expansion slots?
I'm not looking to skimp on parts, I'm still looking for a high end machine. But it looks like you can run an Intel i7 2600 pretty comfortably on something like this Gigabyte:
I struggled for a while about the form factor. Part of me felt or feels that big old desktops are kind of a thing of the past, but after looking at my options I see that building a desktop is still by far the most sensible.
Last time around I bought an HTPC case but it's kind of pointless because it's still a full ATX, so it's basically a mid tower on its side... so I'm not going after that type this time.
But as I said the idea of a traditional full or even mid ATX tower seems old fashioned to me, so I started thinking about going mATX maybe.
Now here is my question, is there any drawbacks to mATX other than the obvious which is the loss of a few expansion slots?
I'm not looking to skimp on parts, I'm still looking for a high end machine. But it looks like you can run an Intel i7 2600 pretty comfortably on something like this Gigabyte:
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