Getting the right system – Hardware specs
What I am looking for ?
- Support for atleast 2 6.0 Gbps SATA drives
- Atleast 4 3.0 GB/s SATA connectors
- Support for atleast 8 GB RAM at 1666
- USB 3.0 support
- HDMI or DVI Connector
- 1 GBps or 10 GBps ethernet connection
- Support to add addtional 1 GB/s or 10 Gb/s ethernet card
- Support for external fans
To learn about all the chipsets under LGA1155, head on to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1155
And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets will give you details on each chip