psg190 wrote:Which i5 would

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December 13, 2011 at 2:28 pm #6645
babgvant
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    [quote=psg190]

    Which i5 would you go with and do you have any alternative motherboard suggestions? MacMall does carry the 2390T. I really like the DH61AG for a motherboard, but I guess it does leave a little to be desired in the way of expansion. What are you using? I’m now wondering if any current motherboards will be compatible with Ivy Bridge chipsets. 

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    H67 boards will be compatible with IVB, I’m not sure if H61 (what the DH61AG uses) will be.

    The main benefit of IVB will be advances in GPU performance, with a little bit of clock and power efficiency gain on the CPU side.  If you’re not playing games there shouldn’t be a huge difference in performance b/w the platforms.