Heep needed on DFI DK X48-T2RSB plus MB

[simon d]

Hi,

I am looking for some help on the DFI DK X48-T2RSB plus mother board and memory.

I have read some great reviews that this is a good board to use at a great price.

I was thinking about P45 chip set, but I was informed that X38 and X48 MB is better to O/C on and better for crossfire full band width. My limit is £150-160 on a MB.

I have purchase a S/H Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.16GHz (1333FSB) step CO, chip has been to 4365Mhz (9.0 X 485) at 1.43v to run super pi

This chip had been running stable 24/7 at 4.05Ghz (9x450) nice and cool at 1.36v under water. The guy believed that stock vid was 1.19v what does that mean?

I still trying to make up my mind on memory I have been looking at Corsair Dominator or OCZ 4096MB Memory Kit (2x2048MB) PC2-8500.

Or I could get 8GB (2x4GB kits) Geil PC2-6400 or OCZ for the same price of PC2-8500 and maybe O/C this RAM to 1066MHz.

I have read some people claim in the reviews that vista 64bit seem smoother with 8GB?

Should I go with PC2-6400 or PC2-8500 4 or 8Gb, maybe no benefit now but could be later?

DFI had problems with HD 4870X2, has this now been fixed with this board as I have HD 4870X2 to go into the system.

This is one reason why I am upgrading now, my AMD system is holding me back and just upgraded to Dell 3008WFP.

I have been using AMD S939 X2 4400+ at 2.8GHz for the last 3 years with 4GB (4x1GB) custom water cooling (triple rad with 10/8mm pipe work) but I am new to this Socket 775 and O/Cing with this chip.

I looking to buy XSPC Delta V3 CPU Block will this fit OK, should I water cool the North Bridge heatsink and which block?

My Plan is to move to new Intel socket later when the prices are better, but I may upgrade to Quad (45nm) later next year.

So this would limit my O/C on the memory, maybe be better off with 8GB PC2-6400 with low O/C.

Any suggestions on memory, type, for this board, which is the best now. Can I run 4 X 2Gb sticks with no problems in this board and O/C. I could find no information on the DFI web site on memory.

I am looking for 3.8 to 4.0Ghz O/C for this chip.

Thanks

Simon

 

[Rastalovich]

It`s so hard to say.

In the early 35/38 days, DDR2, actually reaching 3.8/4 with what would have been the Q6600 or E6850? (dunno) would and was an achievement (on air).

The 35/38 mobos then kinda refined with the Pro/Extreme versions, some with DDR3 and finer DDR2, and it felt most people were hitting 4g, or just under, atleast for benching runs, with relative ease.

U say u got 4g out of ur 3g or below cpu and u kinda joined a club of many.

For a few reasons I haven`t taken a cpu to 4g on a 48 as of yet due to a mixture of circumstances, but I`m not envisaging a big struggle. Get some benchies in and set it back to ... perhaps 3.4/5 for 24/7 folding.

4.2g or so seems to be the next club to join.

The trouble with picking 45 or 48 for their xfire exploits, is that different manufacturers have designed mobos differently. So I couldn`t guarantee that `a` 45 wouldn`t xfire well, when perhaps ASUS or DFI made a special mobo that did.

God knows why some of these firms are intent on making 6x 45 mobos and 3x 48 mobos, but if they sell - good luck 2 em.

4g is more than enough. Any1 with a smoother 8g Vista 64bit install is smoking something, or pre-empting the question "WTF u got 8g for ?". A 2x2g kit is preferable to a 4x1g.