Phenom II OC on nForce?

[RMSe17]

I never had an AMD chip before, (P2-333, P3-450, P3-800, P4-2.4C, C2D-E6600), now I am looking at Phenom II as an alternative to i7.
All the reviews that I have found show Ph II OC with AMD chipset, but AMD chipset does not give me SLI in case I want to have one in the future (I have GTX285 at the moment).
How is the overclocking on nForce based boards? (750,780?)

Or am I being retarded, and should stick with what I know, and get a Q9650 or i7-920?

Thanks,
RMSe17

 

[OCGuy]

It should be between C2Q and PII, as those are the direct competitors more or less.

I guess I got lucky with my 750i FTW, as it OCs like a champ. I know that isnt everyone's experience with them.

I dont think youd go wrong either way to be honest.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

I think that a PhII should overclock very well on an Nvidia board. I had good OC'ing results on an Nvidia GF8200 board, using a couple different X2's and a Phenom.

Much depends on your budget. A Q9650 is considerably more expensive than a PhII or an i7 920, and the total cost of an i7 system is a lot compared with a PhII or a C2Q 9400.

Check out some benchmarks, and you'll see that as gaming resolution goes up, performance with fast quads levels out as the GPU gets saturated.

A good site to check out regarding this is AlienBabelTech.com

 

[RMSe17]

Thanks! I ended up going with an AMD chipset anyway, cause the price was better on the deal at newegg... I figure I will never have SLI anyway.. too much power use

 

[daveybrat]

Originally posted by: RMSe17
Thanks! I ended up going with an AMD chipset anyway, cause the price was better on the deal at newegg... I figure I will never have SLI anyway.. too much power use

That and the issues associated with SLI and Crossfire. You can't go wrong with the new AMD chipset's, very nice. 🙂