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Building a core 2 system.

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atmorell

Junior Member
Hi.

So far I have chosen those components:

UPGRADE:
cpu:Intel Core 2 E6600
motherboard: Asus P5B-delux (is this a good board? I want intel chipset)

Can anyone help me choose memory? (best buy for overclocking/high end system) prices are in Danish kr. (6kr = 1$)
http://www.shg.dk/produkter/list2.asp?katid=7687

I will do a little overclocking - but my main concern is to get a bug free system!

Old parts that I will reuse:
ATI X1900XT
2x200 GB seagate hd.
520watt PSU
Creative X-FI.
etc.

Best regards.
Asbjørn Morell.
 
Well, i can't help you with the memory as i am trying to find out which is compatible with my impending system.

But, i can answer your p5b-deluxe question. Yes, it is a very good board.

Probably the most griped about board feature is the lack of native support for ide and the lousy jmicron controller (2 ide devices) (some people have had performance issues with it. While others have not or have been able to tweak it). You can read through the official

p5b-deluxe thread in the motherboard section.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1908392&enterthread=y
 
I don't think it is a deal killer --tons of people use this board 🙂

if you have lots of ide devices..you can always use an ata controller card.

all p965 chipset boards have the same ide limitation ...


as to the ab9 pro -- i am not familiar with it at all. But here is what this site says about it:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2799

As far as popularity for conroe builds ...the boards used are basically:

asus p5b-e,p5b-deluxe/wi-fi, p5w dh, p5n32-e, striker, gigabyte dQ6, ds3, the evga 680i based 1 and the intel badaxe/badaxe 2

covering the intel 975x, Intel p965, Nvidia 680i, Intel D975XBX chipsets.

The ATI RD600 becomes available on dec 15th (rumours say only 100 dfi boards before christmas). I mention this one only because it has been getting some good pre-hype 🙂

here is a review of the badaxe 2 since i know little about that 1:

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/994/i...ckers_bad_axe_2_motherboard/index.html

edit: and here is something i found in th emotherboard section:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=125865

scroll down a bit to johnny bravo post ..talks about the ab9 revision board coming out:

AB9 QuadGT --this 1 removes a couple of sata ports and uses a different south bridge to provide native ide support.

Trade offs and ever changing tech.. darn 🙂
 
yes thanks...i have skimmed over that thread a couple of times in the last few days...

but that list is limited to d9 chips and does not go into compatibility of the ocz i am basically limited to ..along with a couple high priced corsair units.

I am much more limited than that list 🙂

edit: basically steveOCZ says no problem in the p5b-deluxe or the pw5 dh. But i have to take that with a grain of salt given the compatibility problems they had with asus, am2 and ddr2 800 ram. The final answer being that we[OCZ] have tweaked our spd timings but there are still compatability problems.

plus now i have heard several people complain that asus will not provide support if ram not on approved hardware vendor list --which i still can't find myself 🙂 grr
 
Redstar. I have done some changes:

Core 2 Duo (Conroe) Model E6600
Gigabyte motherboard GA-965P-DQ6
Special Ops Edition Series Kit - 2x1024 MB, PC2-6400 DDR2-800, CAS 5-5-5-12 - OCZ2SOE8002GK

What do do you think about this configuration?

Best regards.
Asbjørn Morell.
 
Originally posted by: RedStar
Well, i can't help you with the memory as i am trying to find out which is compatible with my impending system.

But, i can answer your p5b-deluxe question. Yes, it is a very good board.

Probably the most griped about board feature is the lack of native support for ide and the lousy jmicron controller (2 ide devices) (some people have had performance issues with it. While others have not or have been able to tweak it). You can read through the official

p5b-deluxe thread in the motherboard section.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1908392&enterthread=y
Click to expand...

I'm using the P5B Deluxe and didn't do anything but install the chipset drivers from the disc. I have one serial drive and one parallel. They benched out on HDTach3 exactly where they should be peforming.

I think *most* people having problems with the P5B Deluxe are at the extreme end of overclocking. I've been up and running at 3.2GHz (E6400) for two weeks without one issue. Upon initial install all I had to do was raise the Vcore to 1.38. Actually, I was having boot problems with Vcore on auto so I set it to 1.4 and it was fine. Now I'm slowly backing it down to find the minimum.

 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128323

check there for user reviews.

.provides only 1 p-ata controller --for 2 ide devices (as all p965 solutions do not have native ide support). I'm not sur eif it uses jmicron or not --i have seen no references to it. so i'd guess not. 4 usb back plate +2
has a cooling plater under the mb below cpu area (though gets in way if use non-stock cooling option) ...uses all solid caps (longer life)

here is a review:

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/ga965p_dq6/14.html

since then th ebios is much more mature...I am not sure what the latest hardware revision of the board is.


edit: that memory is the memory i am looking to get ..after i make sure it is compatible...

that or the platinum revision 2 xtc 🙂

edit2: just to throw in a little personal bias, i have decided to get an asus p5b-deluxe or an asus p5w -dh if i can't decide on a great 680i product (or if no rd600 dfi board shows up) by vista day

🙂
 
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