Need some suggestions for a good overclocker

[mrwobbles]

Hey,

Well I am in the process of upgrading my processor and mainboard, plumped for the Intel Q6600 @2.4 and decided to match it up with the ASUS P5K Premium Black Pearl, the one with the G0-stepping. Wanted this because its capable of overclocking the Q6600 to 3.5 with the stock fan and generally just seemed to be pretty decent for overclocking and power consumption. Decided to get a better fan so I could get it up further. However I cant find the damn board anywhere that wont make me wait 2 weeks to a month to get it.

Really I'm looking for suggestions for good overclocking mobos with at least two GPU slots with SLI/Crossfire for about £120 that can support a 1366+FSB. Have already got 4GB of DDR2 that I ordered with the P5K so don't really want a DDR3 board. I was looking at the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P or maybe the P5E3 Premium X48 if i can justify spending 3 times the money on memory.......... Would appreciate any suggestions

Cheers all

 

[noobieocer]

i cant remember exactly but i think that board suports cross fire with 1 of the cards with only 4x lanes, u may want to look into that but here is anouther great oc asus board:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

i don think this supports crossfire with both lanes at x16 either but it has the new p45 chip set which should make overclocking a little easier as you wont have to play with chip set voltages for higher fsbs

 

[mrwobbles]

Yeah you're right I hadn't noticed that. I'm still not entirely sure what affect that will have; am I right in thinking that if I've got two GPU cards in one will run at x4 and the other at x12, or both at x4? I think on the dual x16 if you put two GPUs in they'll both run at x8, is that right?

 

[noobieocer]

erm the lanes will give more bandwidth and more performance, full crossfire will be 16 lanes on each slot, lesser lanes = lesser performance. i think in the p5k has 1 slot running on 16 lanes and one will run at 4 lanes. not so sure about the p5q thou, you don't really need crossfire, sometimes it lowers performance compared to single card configurations.

i would just get a good gpu and just stick to a single card, and upgrade when need to

 

[Thanh55]

You should go for this: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Bios...2-1066-1200(OC)-667-800-SATA-II-SATA-RAID-ATX. It suit you need.

 

[de_lenni]

the Biostat Tpower I45 has a P45 chipset,

you can run crossfire, but: if you install one card it will run with x16 lanes, if you place 2 gpu's in crossfire they will both run at x8

so i think that if you want the full gain of your crossfire you should get a motherboard with a x48 chipset.

but the difference won't be all that big, it also depends on what gpu's you have if they need the x16 bandwith.

the biostar Tpower I45 is a good bord for oc'ing so that will be good for the cpu, but it has a P45 chipset...

the choice is yours (you can look for some more info on eg. google)

 

[Hatman]

Tbh most modern chipsets will get you to where you want they pretty much all have at least 400fsb support.

just need a good cpu... unlyk mine which sux with inability to even run stable at 3.6 at 1.5v voltage...