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I'm currently running a Q6600 (G0) at 3.4Ghz (378*9) on an "Asus p5k deluxe Wifi AP". On hand, I have an unused Gigabyte "ga-ep45-ud3p".
I'm considering moving to the gigabyte board, as it's a P45 chipset. Would it be a significant upgrade worth the rebuild? I'd get a newer, supposedly better OCing chipset and PCIe 2.0 with crossfire capability; however, the p5k was a higher-end board upon release, despite being an old P35. The gigabyte board also has an ICH10, which supposedly works better with SSDs.
I've definitely planned my next full-system upgrade for socket 2011 Q3 next year, so I'm hoping this would give me a little more longevity from my Q6600 and DDR2 if I can OC higher.
I'm also planning on and have budgeted for the Intel G3 SSD for Q3 this year.
I'm running eyefinity, so I'm not all that CPU limited in games, but I am considering switching to an AMD hexacore (I edit/rip/encode a bit) with 6g/s sata for the SSD. However, that's a 500 dollar change for the cpu/mobo/ram.
What should I do?
I'm considering moving to the gigabyte board, as it's a P45 chipset. Would it be a significant upgrade worth the rebuild? I'd get a newer, supposedly better OCing chipset and PCIe 2.0 with crossfire capability; however, the p5k was a higher-end board upon release, despite being an old P35. The gigabyte board also has an ICH10, which supposedly works better with SSDs.
I've definitely planned my next full-system upgrade for socket 2011 Q3 next year, so I'm hoping this would give me a little more longevity from my Q6600 and DDR2 if I can OC higher.
I'm also planning on and have budgeted for the Intel G3 SSD for Q3 this year.
I'm running eyefinity, so I'm not all that CPU limited in games, but I am considering switching to an AMD hexacore (I edit/rip/encode a bit) with 6g/s sata for the SSD. However, that's a 500 dollar change for the cpu/mobo/ram.
What should I do?
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admittedly, I'm looking for general hardware opinions. And.... the motherboard forum (though related) is not the place for entire system advice; I'm hoping this forum will have a higher volume of people with general system knowledge, and couldn't figure out how to get it moved (or delete it for that matter). This is also updated with links, better wording on the goal of a potential rebuild, and additional details I've since found between the two.
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