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[yassarikhan786]

I've been working as a IT Tech since 1996 and I don't think I've had the sort of problems Mayhem described in his post.

Maybe just lucky but have had to go thru loads of RMA's for customers etc.

That's very fortunate

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[Casjj]

4.5ghz was sort of my aim, not going to worry about going further despite seeing speeds of 5 reached, not going to be too greedy.

Just need to get set on a mobo now and I'm about sorted

Thanks a lot to everyone who has given input once again!

 

[yassarikhan786]

4.5ghz was sort of my aim, not going to worry about going further despite seeing speeds of 5 reached, not going to be too greedy.

Just need to get set on a mobo now and I'm about sorted

Thanks a lot to everyone who has given input once again!

Your welcome mate

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[fcb]

A great board from the Gigabyte side would be a P67A-UD3P-B3. If you're not going to be using eSATA, that's the one to go for.

 

[Casjj]

Decisions decisions, gonna be up all night trying to figure which choice to make! Contribution appreciated!

 

[yassarikhan786]

What about the Asus P8P67?

Or any P67 or Z68 motherboard from Asus or Gigabyte. Just choose one in your budget and you should be fine

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[Casjj]

Think I'm gonna go for the gigabyte ga-z68xp-ud3p... I think aha, harder to make decisions than I thought it would be

 

[fcb]

Think I'm gonna go for the gigabyte ga-z68xp-ud3p... I think aha, harder to make decisions than I thought it would be

That's a start into the premium boards. Will you be using Lucid Virtu, the extra eSATA and onboard Marvell controller for the 2 extra SATA ports? Great board though.

 

[Casjj]

Hmm I suppose not, just trying to future proof myself a little I guess, unless the ga-z68xp-ud3 or Asus p8z68-v le would still offer decent future proofing and still allow me to overclock to 4.5~ghz and keep it stable

 

[fcb]

Hmm I suppose not, just trying to future proof myself a little I guess, unless the ga-z68xp-ud3 or Asus p8z68-v le would still offer decent future proofing and still allow me to overclock to 4.5~ghz and keep it stable

Yup, you'll be able to OC up to or over 4.5GHz with no problems. If you're going to use the Intel Smart Response Technology, which is using SSD as a cache for your regular hard drive, that would be one of the major advantages of the Z68 over the P67. You're still able to do SLI or Crossfire the same way for both P67 or Z68.

 

[Casjj]

Looks like the money saved from the mobo is getting donated into a ssd fund, Thank you very much sir once again for your assistance

 

[fcb]

Looks like the money saved from the mobo is getting donated into a ssd fund, Thank you very much sir once again for your assistance

You know the Z68 is great if you don't want to spend a fortune on a 120GB+ SSD yet, but still want some performance gain. A perfect combo would be something like a WD 1TB Black for the OS with a 30 - 60GB SSD as the cache. That way you can partition your 1TB into different storage spaces for your content. It saves having to do a real RAID setup or spending extra on something like the HDD Boost that Silverstone has on top of your SSD and hard drive. I guess it really depends on what you want and need from your motherboard. You're very welcome.