Gigabyte GA-H81M-S1 + Core i5 + 8GB/1600 - will it work with MBox 2 and PT 8.0.5?

[stopi]

I need to improve performance of my system. Will it work with PT 8.0.5 LE and MBox2 interface..?

I can buy here in good price:

Gigabyte GA-H81M-S1 + Core i5-4460 + GeIL 8GB/1600

Does Core i5 processors are good working with my configuration? I need mainly expand RAM memory. My mainboard doesn't support now more than 4GB :/ Maybe someone can suggest any good hardware configuration with 8GB of memory..?

Thanks!

[albee1952]

First of all, you posted this in the Mac section so you may not get much response(or are you building a Hackintosh?). Secondly, IMHO, i5 is not the way to go. The difference between i5 and i7 is night and day. For a budget build these days, I would go to eBay and look for a package deal on an X58 motherboard, intel i7 980X and 6(or 12)GB of triple-channel RAM. That combo can be found for under $500(I recently bought this for $450 with 12GB of RAM) and it will stomp any i5 build you could do, with certain compatibility(I can't speak for the motherboard you listed)

[stopi]

Upss.. I didn't notice i wrote in MAC forum :) eBay is not for me. Shipping cost are big, I'm from Poland. I think i will find here good offer at comparable price. Yes, I think about i7 now. I always used Gigabytes mainboards. I didn't have problems with Gigabyte, but Asus makes good motherboards too.

[Craig F]

I'm going to move this to the Win section

I suggest you look at the i7 build thread http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=238426