Recommend me another motherboard.

[David]

Will be fore... running a Q6600 for overclocking, 4gig of OCZ Sli RAM, RAID 0 drives, vista 64bit

SLI and Crossifire not needed, will be running x1 Nvidia 280... good audio not needed as have a seperate card, just needs to be quiet and reliable. Preferably not too pricey but i'm happy spendnign up to £150.

i've been looking at the X48 chipset but it seems to be pricey and has stuff i don't particularly need altohugh i'm open to suggestions and thoughts

do your best lads

 

[David]

come on guys...

 

[Mike_182]

Got an nVidia/eVGA 680i SLI going spare...

 

[David]

hah thats what i'm moving away from! broke on me, 2 dimm slots cause horrible beeps out of it...well know issue apparently...any other ideas? come on mike you know your stuff, whats good?

 

[David]

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[Mike_182]

I've got a couple of 680i's and they're great. Rock solid platform and it's the one I got my Q6600 to 4.8Ghz on.

If you have to get latest and greatest, DFI's Lan Party range (DK X48-T2R is just inside your budget) is pretty good kit, looking to get my mitts on the UT X48 to bench over the next few weeks.

Still, if you're running a single GPU setup on a processor that runs on the 680i, then I think you're better staying there!

 

[David]

weird....i've researched the problem i had and it's all over the forums. Actually been running the mobo for around 6 months, stable etc and all of a sudden packed in. When i asked over clockers about it, they told me the nvidia chipsets were rubbish in comparison to intel. Not sure what to do, gonna RMA it i guess

 

[Mike_182]

Overclockers just want to sell you a new motherboard.

http://www.evga.com/articles/390.asp

If nVidia stuff was that rubbish compared to Intel, someone with an Intel board would have dicked on that score before it went out...

 

[Mike_182]

In fact, it took TWO LATER Intel chipset revisions and a graphics card 2 generations newer (and with another processor, and 256MB memory extra per core) to beat it, and rather unconvincingly I'd say...

http://www.custompc.co.uk/features/...-record-with-asus-and-1000l-of-ln2/page2.html

Which an equal generation of nVidia kit (790i and 3xGTX280) went and trashed on WATER COOLING (not sub-zero!) by a bigger margin:

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=476164

If I were bothered, I'd ask them their opinion myself and then dick on them, but they're a bunch of spotty Stokey teenagers who at best have wet dreams about LN cooling - and at worst, don't give a shiny and have the inter-person skills of my left testicle, which spends all day banging my right testicle.

 

[David]

yeh but dude, my mobo is still fucked however you look at it....and i don't want to put liquid nitrogen on my board either!!

 

[cleo]

How about an X38 mobo? Well under £150, my does not even have an onboard soundcard (It hs a soundcard, but its a PCI-express one, so you dont even have to plug it in if you have a better card).

 

[David]

what one is yours? you overclocking?

 

[wozzaa]

Just speak to EVGA all there stuff as far as I remember has a lifetime warranty so they should sort it out for you.

 

[Mike_182]

Depends on the variant. A1 boards get the longest warranty, others only get 1-3 years dependant.

I've got an Asus Maximus Formula X38 board and it's pretty good tbh...

 

[Darren S]

Depends on the variant. A1 boards get the longest warranty, others only get 1-3 years dependant.

I've got an Asus Maximus Formula X38 board and it's pretty good tbh...

Any real benefits of the Striker II with the 790i Ultra chipset over the Maximus?

I know it's well out of David's price range, but it does look quite smart.

D.

 

[Mike_182]

790i chipset is very capable, and as long as you sort the cooling on it (ASUS use their own HS IIRC) then it's great - just the obnoxious nVidia stock chipset fan is rediculously noisy (and crap) and the reference cooler is shite.

 

[Nims]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-278-AS&tool=3

 

[David]

yeh the northbridge cooler on the 680i is the loudest part of my old system never liked that.

Good shout nims, i quite like asus too. Annoying about the crossfire running at 8x but i'll prob never use it anyway. i look at the p35's a bit more i think