If purchasing an E6800 today, what mobo/ram would you pair it with?

[HomeyFoos]

Contemplating a premature migration to C2D because I can afford it atm. In a couple of months, I'll be buying a house and I can forget all about that. So I'm curious what the best pairing would be and to kinda get an idea of what that would cost.

Also, if going C2D, are there any SLi mobo's not running NForce 4 (i'm locked into NVidia at the moment)? Perhaps I could buy the chip now and wait for the Mobo's to mature a bit?

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[JAG87]

First of all its X6800

Second of all if you have time, wait for the real nForce 590 boards coming out end of Nov to early Dec. The ones with the C55 northbridge not the ones with the C19 northbridge (such as the P5N32 Premium coming out in a week or so). If you dont have time get a P5N32-SLI SE, it will do SLI like a champ. And Core 2 + SLI = ownage.

 

[HomeyFoos]

I was not completely certain about the nomenclature for that chip. I've seen it as the X and the E, but the E usually in carts. Thanks, though. I can wait a bit but eventually, costs will start to pile up and I can forget this. I hope that board comes out on time.

 

[Sentry2]

I have 4 gigs of GSkill 2GBHZ that is just plain awesome for the price. It will do 3-4-3-8(maybe 3-3-3) @ 2.2v - 2.3v @ 800MHz(effective). I've also got it to go over DDR2 1066 @ 2.4v with decent timings.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Do you absolutely need SLI? I'd second guess myself on SLi unless you're migrading your current cards over. I say this because there are much more powerful single card solutions comming up. Maybe you can hold out for DX-10 cards?

Anyhow if you need SLI (without hacked driver) I'd wait for Nforce 590 boards. Nobody knows how well they will overclock though.

If you can go without SLI I'd go with a Asus P5B Deluxe or Gigabyte DS3.

For memory I'd get TeamXtreme DDR2-1000 from tankguys.com They seem to have the best price for this type of performance memory. The G.Skill HZ is excellent as well for overclocking, but I still think TeamXtreme presents a better value.