Recommend best core2duo+SLI mobo for oc'ing

gline · 20-10-2006 7:02am #1

Im looking to get a decent mobo for a 6600 cpu, has to be SLI though and not crossfire, also i'l probably be puting it on phase cooling.

So what do you recommend at the moment, also what memory?

PogMoThoin · 20-10-2006 9:12am

Sli only with hacked drivers m8. These are older drivers which are modded & may not be as good as newer drivers. Personally I'd go with the Asus P5w dh, good clocking mobo, loads of extra features like wifi. Another choice is the Abit Awd pro, good oc'er. You could wait for the Dfi rd600, out next month, but it hasn't been tested properly yet. Your choice.

Wanna buy a Dfi Infinity 975x?

On the memory front, I'd try to find Team xtreem 6400, clocks to over 100mhz, tight timings (3-3-3-8 @ 800mhz), and a very good price. 2nd choice would be GSkill 6400 hz. Have a look at CPC mag, good guide to ram in it this month.
Good luck
Pog

gline · 20-10-2006 9:14am

PogMoThoin wrote:

Wanna buy a Dfi Infinity 975x?

hmm will i be able to do sli properly on it??

if so then yeh il buy

PogMoThoin · 20-10-2006 9:17am

Ya, prooven here: http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=65964

gline · 20-10-2006 9:20am

does it oc well???

Pm me with details as i dont want to discuss a sale in this thread, thanks

anyone anyother recommendations?

awhir · 20-10-2006 2:38pm

sorry pog but gline would reccomend ya going for the asus boards.or w8 for the new dfi board.

PogMoThoin · 20-10-2006 2:49pm

Deal is done

gline · 23-10-2006 10:53am

awhir wrote:

sorry pog but gline would reccomend ya going for the asus boards.or w8 for the new dfi board.

which asus board are you talking about, also are the nForce590 SLI chipset boards any good? i was looking at the Asus P5N32-SLi Premium WiFi, any good?

PogMoThoin · 23-10-2006 11:48am

All xfire conroe mobo's are limited by the chipset. 965 mobo's have a newer chipset which is why they clock higher than 975. 975 is an older chipset, developed for pentium 4 dual core, not conroe.

As regards that Asus P5N32-SLi, it has an older chipset also. It tops out at a miserable 320fsb.

gline · 23-10-2006 11:50am

what are the new chipsets coming out?

PogMoThoin · 23-10-2006 11:57am

New dfi rd600 has the new Ati chipset, out in few weeks.
Info here; http://www.pcmoddingmy.com/news.php?extend.1904

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=116504&highlight=rd600

Happy Games will be reviewing it soon on Dfi-street, He usually gives his honest opinion (even tho he's a Dfi employee) & is more in2 stability than suicide shots. There is a rule that all submissions in OCDB on Dfi-street must have an 8 hrs orthos & 3dmark 2001 run screenie

challengemaster · 23-10-2006 12:22pm

hmm...saw a mobo a while back with 4x PCI-e ports..i'll see if i can find it again

gline · 24-10-2006 7:27am

well i ordered the memory anyway - 2nd one down on this page

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Corsair_XMS2_Memory.html

the Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x1GB)

Hope its good

and i ordered an e6600 core 2 duo, so now just for the mobo, just waiting on pog to get his new one

Cuddlesworth · 24-10-2006 9:22am

Lol, I suppose its not a good time to say that I ordered the Abit Aw9 Max too. Got me some Gskill and a e6600 too.

gline · 24-10-2006 9:24am

krazy_8s wrote:

Lol, I suppose its not a good time to say that I ordered the Abit Aw9 Max too. Got me some Gskill and a e6600 too.

im not into abits at all, had bad experiences with them.
to run 2x 7950 gx2's do you need a mobo with 2x x16 pci-e slots??

PogMoThoin · 24-10-2006 10:01am

gline wrote:

to run 2x 7950 gx2's do you need a mobo with 2x x16 pci-e slots??

:rolleyes: No, but there have been probs running them on some mobo's

gline · 24-10-2006 10:12am

PogMoThoin wrote:

:rolleyes: No, but there have been probs running them on some mobo's

like what type of "problems" ? hehe

PogMoThoin · 24-10-2006 11:01am

Not runnin at all, compatibility issues. Some of the 965 mobo's.
Saw sum1 on Dfi-street with it runnin with Dfi Infinity tho.

Cuddlesworth · 24-10-2006 11:16am

I would have thought that pci*4 would be bandwidth limited against a full *16 lane slot for those cards.

gline · 24-10-2006 11:40am

yeh i thought i would be limited too

whats a decent psu to run a monster rig these days?

Cuddlesworth · 24-10-2006 11:56am

600watts.

gline · 24-10-2006 11:58am

krazy_8s wrote:

600watts.

yeh i gathered that, il probbaly even go for more than 600watt

PogMoThoin · 24-10-2006 12:20pm

600W plus, especially if ya oc'in wit gx2

gline · 25-10-2006 8:35am

went for the 700watt ocz.. this one...
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=324467

Should be ok, also i ordered 1x 7950 gx2, cant wait to get the conroe on vapochill

PogMoThoin · 25-10-2006 9:12am

gline wrote:

went for the 700watt ocz.. this one...
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=324467

Should be ok, also i ordered 1x 7950 gx2, cant wait to get the conroe on vapochill

OCZ are a bit noisy, my 600w is.

gline · 25-10-2006 9:18am

PogMoThoin wrote:

OCZ are a bit noisy, my 600w is.

yeh i had the 600watt one aswell, awell this rig isnt exactly going to be quiet anyway

gline · 01-11-2006 9:01am

when are all the new chipsets coming out, id like one that supports the new 8800gtx's in sli

anyone got any links, cant really find much myself

You Suck! · 01-11-2006 8:29pm

anyone got any links, cant really find much myself

Same here, Kinda worrying for a kit thats meant to be on sale within the week. And even after that, will still have to wait for tests to see if it's not just a crappy rehash of the 580i....

Sucks as I was hopin to buy this month.

Anti · 01-11-2006 9:06pm

im holding out for the dfi r600. There is a big buzz about it, And dfi are very well know for overclockable boards.

Atm poggy has a new abit, but has hit a brick wall at 370fsb. @ 49c.

Might be something simple, but We shall see. Im also holding out for the g80. Was gonna spend big money on a 7950gx2, But if i can spend 100£ more and get a better card i will.

gline · 02-11-2006 8:13am

anti wrote:

im holding out for the dfi r600. There is a big buzz about it, And dfi are very well know for overclockable boards.

Atm poggy has a new abit, but has hit a brick wall at 370fsb. @ 49c.

Might be something simple, but We shall see. Im also holding out for the g80. Was gonna spend big money on a 7950gx2, But if i can spend 100£ more and get a better card i will.

doesnt seem to be a release date for the new dfi, not listed on their site as far as i can see, id like to get 2x g80's aswell, thats why id like to get a new mobo that supports this proposed new method of sli

Flaccus · 02-11-2006 5:40pm

7950gx2's in quad sli is load of **** crap. I know from experience. DX9 only supports 2 gpu's so 2 go to waste and with the huge cpu overhead getting all 4 to talk to each other basiscally slows everything down i.e. 1 gx2 runs faster then 2. Benches all over the web have shown it. ONLY advantage is at stupid resolutions - 2560x1600 with a Dell 30" screen and huge amounts of AA. With the right game that supports quad and with the latest nvidia drivers, 1 GX2 will handle the AA. So you end up playing at around 40fps if you are lucky. Quad is a total waste in my book. Crossfire outperforms it anyway. And the G80 matches or beats Crossfire from early benches shown.

Also - best board for SLI with Intel cpu's (out soon) will no doubt be one of the 680i chipset based boards being launched on the 8th. EVGA should have one out.

gline · 02-11-2006 8:54pm

Flaccus wrote:

7950gx2's in quad sli is load of **** crap. I know from experience. DX9 only supports 2 gpu's so 2 go to waste and with the huge cpu overhead getting all 4 to talk to each other basiscally slows everything down i.e. 1 gx2 runs faster then 2. Benches all over the web have shown it. ONLY advantage is at stupid resolutions - 2560x1600 with a Dell 30" screen and huge amounts of AA. With the right game that supports quad and with the latest nvidia drivers, 1 GX2 will handle the AA. So you end up playing at around 40fps if you are lucky. Quad is a total waste in my book. Crossfire outperforms it anyway. And the G80 matches or beats Crossfire from early benches shown.

Also - best board for SLI with Intel cpu's (out soon) will no doubt be one of the 680i chipset based boards being launched on the 8th. EVGA should have one out.

but they may be longer waits for all these parts, as usual

Anti · 02-11-2006 10:28pm

The toms hardware interactive vga charts contridict you completly flaccus. So do quite a few other big sites. Dunno where you looked tbh.

Flaccus · 03-11-2006 8:03pm

I had a quad sli setup and it was slower then single sli (1 GX2) at resolutions below 2560x1600 regardless of what driver I tried so I don't give a f*ck what the review sites say. Plenty of sites anyway which back me up but couldn't be bothered to look them up. Needless to say it's common knowledge that under 2560x1600 quad is a waste.

One site that springs to mind is xbit labs who tested quad again in Sept. with more mature drivers which came out after I got rid of my setup. They found Xfire to be faster in more tests then quad. Even in extreme conditions the ATI solution came out ahead.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/quad-sli-two_25.html

"Our tests have shown that the GeForce 7950 quad-SLI system is hardly worth its cost. It’s only in a few applications that we’ve observed a considerable performance boost in the standard modes (1280x1024, 1600x1200 and 1920x1200 resolutions with 4x FSAA and 16x AF), namely in F.E.A.R., Prey, Titan Quest, and 3DMark06. This is only four applications out of twenty! A minor increase of speed was observed in five more games: Far Cry, Quake 4, Serious Sam 2, Tomb Raider: Legend and X3: Reunion. Quad-SLI technology looks even worse than that if you compare it with the Radeon X1950 XTX CrossFire tandem which improves performance in 13 tests out of 20 and only refused to work in Hitman: Blood Money and Tomb Raider: Legend."

PogMoThoin · 03-11-2006 8:30pm

anti wrote:

im holding out for the dfi r600. There is a big buzz about it, And dfi are very well know for overclockable boards.

Atm poggy has a new abit, but has hit a brick wall at 370fsb. @ 49c.

Might be something simple, but We shall see. Im also holding out for the g80. Was gonna spend big money on a 7950gx2, But if i can spend 100£ more and get a better card i will.

Got 400fsb (3.6Ghz) now

Recommend best core2duo+SLI mobo for oc'ing

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