Which mobo ??

[Rover3500]

:worship:Hi all,

I have a couple of o/c questions here ATM but after reading some posts I am wondering if I have the right mobo for overclocking.

I am running a gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 with a Q9450 cpu and 4* 2gb Ocz Reaper DDR2 PC8500 1066mhz ram (8gb total)

I have a major water cooling system in a Mountain mods cuctom build UFO case (13 blow holes , lol)

I have read that the Asus ROG mobo's can change the cpu to a higher level with a single setting , is this done through the FSB or the multiplier and what about voltage ??

As it is with my mobo all I can do (as far as I can see) is change the FSB and voltage but of coarse changing the FSB effects my ram and I don't think that can go much higher than stock.

So before I spend even more on cooling my mobo should I think about another board ??

I do want to stay with DDR2 ATM because running 8gb is way to expensive on DDR3.

Any help here is much appreciated,

Thanks in advance,

:worship::worship::worship:

 

[Bishop]

asus!

yeah the bios settings are unbelieveably easy on the asus range i recently plumped for the p5q deluxe i have no previous oc expereince and am ocing my q6600 by 600mhz just by changing the fsb

 

[GavX]

ASUS ROG boards have the CPU level up, but I prefere to just get hands on. The Maximus Formula ia a fantastic board, X38 and caan take cheaper DDR2, but I have my Q9450 at 3.8Ghz (up from 2.66). Drop your RAM timings if you board has that option (my ASUS can do that) or the RAM divider (?) in othehr boards, from 1:1 to 1:3 for example, basically meaning even if you hit a high FSB you can still have some headroom left in your RAM

 

[coffeejunky]

ASUS ROG boards have the CPU level up, but I prefere to just get hands on. The Maximus Formula ia a fantastic board, X38 and caan take cheaper DDR2, but I have my Q9450 at 3.8Ghz (up from 2.66). Drop your RAM timings if you board has that option (my ASUS can do that) or the RAM divider (?) in othehr boards, from 1:1 to 1:3 for example, basically meaning even if you hit a high FSB you can still have some headroom left in your RAM

It is a good board, but I would go for the ASUS P5E - It apparantly can be successfully flashed to rampage formula BIOS, and is a fair bit cheaper. Furthermore, at its stock BIOS all settings are really easy.

 

[Thanh55]

It is a good board, but I would go for the ASUS P5E - It apparantly can be successfully flashed to rampage formula BIOS, and is a fair bit cheaper. Furthermore, at its stock BIOS all settings are really easy.

You can't go wrong with this board,,ehhhe

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[anklebiter]

Im about to dabble with minor OCing, can anyone suggest a good guide to Overclocking? where to start what not to do, and how to get the best out of your system whilst being 100% safe.

Ive had some great advise already, just hoping to get some more..

Regards

Ollie

 

[Bishop]

100% safe

fairly new myself m8 but pretty sure there is no such thing just make sure you got decent thermal paste on like arctic silver and a decent cpe cooler not a stock one! plenty of people here will be bale to help you out as to the whows and whys

 

[Rover3500]

It is a good board, but I would go for the ASUS P5E - It apparantly can be successfully flashed to rampage formula BIOS, and is a fair bit cheaper. Furthermore, at its stock BIOS all settings are really easy.

The problem with the P5 boards is that the crossfire is only 8*8 where as the X48 is 16*16

This was my main reason for getting an X48 chip set, the reason I went for the GA-X48-DQ6 was that it had an extra 2 sata2 ports making 8 in total.

 

[Rover3500]

ASUS ROG boards have the CPU level up, but I prefere to just get hands on. The Maximus Formula ia a fantastic board, X38 and caan take cheaper DDR2, but I have my Q9450 at 3.8Ghz (up from 2.66). Drop your RAM timings if you board has that option (my ASUS can do that) or the RAM divider (?) in othehr boards, from 1:1 to 1:3 for example, basically meaning even if you hit a high FSB you can still have some headroom left in your RAM

So the Asus boards don't actualy change the multiplier then ?

If it's just a FSB raise I can do that on my DQ6 board, it's a matter of trying to work out how to stop my ddr2 from going to high, I guess dropping the ratio will be the only answer.

I get a bit confused with the intel boards as I'm used to the AMD which was just 400mhz and then multiplied.

This intel board seems to have the fsb + cpu @ 1333 the ram @ 1066 what is the actual base mhz before any multipliers to work from ?

 

[coffeejunky]

The problem with the P5 boards is that the crossfire is only 8*8 where as the X48 is 16*16

This was my main reason for getting an X48 chip set, the reason I went for the GA-X48-DQ6 was that it had an extra 2 sata2 ports making 8 in total.

That is not true. It is P45 that has only 8x, 8x. P35 has x16, x4. X38 and X48 have full x16, x16 crossfire.

So the Asus boards don't actualy change the multiplier then ?

If it's just a FSB raise I can do that on my DQ6 board, it's a matter of trying to work out how to stop my ddr2 from going to high, I guess dropping the ratio will be the only answer.

I get a bit confused with the intel boards as I'm used to the AMD which was just 400mhz and then multiplied.

This intel board seems to have the fsb + cpu @ 1333 the ram @ 1066 what is the actual base mhz before any multipliers to work from ?

You can't overclock by upping the multi on any non xeon intel processor. You must overclock using the stock multi and by upping the FSB. Yes, just drop the RAm divider when the RAm speed becomes too high. Good Luck, Posta back if you need help.

 

[GavX]

You can drop the multiplyer too (from whatever your CPU is by standed, eg my Q9450 is x8, down -0.5 to 6. Useful for checking a motherboards max FSB).