Got a Q6600 and 2x8800 GTS cards...what mobo now?

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r3zon8

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Ive got my cpu, vga cards, and memory ready for a build.

ive yet to decide on what motherboard i should go with.

overclocking, ive got a q6600(266x9 stock), and its a very powerful cpu as it is. im reaching 4700+ cpu marks in 3dmarks. but ofcourse i want to overclock it. im looking for at least a bump to 2.93gz which will get me similar performance to a stock qx6800. but im not looking to break any records.

sli, sli is very important to me since i have these 2 cards already. and from what ive seen in reviews and benchamarks, the jump in 3d performance will be greater by using SLI than by overclocking my cpu and extra 600-800mhz.

the boards im interested in are

Asus Stryker Extreme, because SLI is confirmed to work, good overclocker, but $$$$.

Asus P5K Deluxe, new P35 bearlake chipset, from initial reviews the board automatically bumps your c2d's fsb to 33 without any modification of the bios..kinda like a 'free' overclock. good memory controller, and great quad overclocker according to review..but does it support SLI??? this is still unconfirmed to my knowledge.

please help guys!
 
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drakore

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well its an intel chipset so the p35's won't support SLI.

also you need a volt mod for the penryn so i dont think a bios upgrade can allow for a penryn
 
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hennessy1

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well the reason I said the 680i boards is because they already support 1333mhz so i would think that a bios update would do the trick since you can easily already change the voltage. I might be mistaken about this though.
 
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cubeless

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i really am liking the gigabyte 650-ds4 sli... 485 fsb with my 6320... haven't tried the sli, but everything is working real smooth...
 
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PCTC2

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the eVGA 680i A1 revision (and T1 with a shorter 2 year warranty vs lifetime) are really the only boards tuned to OC quad-cores and have SLI.
Plus, it's a monster to OC memory with and supports up to DDR2-1200. I love my eVGA 680i.
 
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Shimmishim

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Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
DFI LP UT NF680I LT SLI-T2

This got to be one of the best motherboards out there.
Click to expand...

it's all hype.

it's a nice board but not the best for sure.

if you've been following the thread at XS you'll see that many people are having problems overclocking their quadcore chips due to all the GTL voltage options available in the bios... and no two chips are a like so everyone has to find their own set of voltage options that work... seems like a pain to me

it appears the evga 680i board is rock solid for quadcore.

my vote is for the evga board if you're doing quadcore + SLI
 
lopri

lopri

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Another vote for EVGA 680i A1/T1. I mentioned it in a different thread, but this board matured big time since last november. For the first month or so, on many occasions I had the urge to smash the board with a keyboard due to various issues. Then it was kinda abandoned for a while and I just got my work done on my trusty LanParty board. In the meantime there were quite a few significant BIOS revisions. I decided to give it another go and now I'm glad I didn't throw this board out. The performance was absolutely fantastic with E6400, and when I heard the free cross-ship offer from EVGA, I jumped on the quad-core bandwagon. And so far there is nothing I can complain about - although I haven't tried SLI. I wonder if their 680i SLI LT and 650i SLI boards are also tuned for quad-core CPUs?

I hate to sound like a viral marketeer, but I can't speak highly enough of EVGA's customer service. They're decent (humanly) and knowledgeable (technically).
 
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