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GeordieLife

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Morning peoples!

I'm bored at work and my credit card is getting itchy.

Currently have P35 board and Q6600. Quite happy to keep the CPU but looking to upgrade the mobo and memory. Budget unimportant. What should I go for? I mainly game (WoW) and develop in c# 2008.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT - Going for 4870 too.
 
zerogear

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What motherboard do you currently have? And are you looking at DDR2 or DDR3?
 
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zerogear

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What are you looking for in a motherboard then? :)

Edit MSI Neo2 FR is a P35 so no point in going to another P35 Motherboard, P45 or X48 maybe?
 
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Not really fussed about SLi/Xfire. Just that it'll take a single card solution. 4870 for now, but maybe something dual GPU in the future.

Usual...LAN, plenty USB2.0. Got sounds sorted. Don't need/want wifi.

EDIT - What's the difference between P45 and X48? Graphics not so fast on P45? Would I notice?



 
zerogear

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Well, P45 is an upgrade to the P35 chipset, it includes PCI Express 2.0, a new ICH10 southbridge and be manufactured using a 65 nm process. The chipset will also include the built-in Danbury data protection engine which will provide hardware-based content encryption. PS/2 and LPT support is thought to be dropped. It will also have built-in HDMI, DisplayPort, and DVI support with HDCP. The P45 will be mainstream chipset with support for either a single x16 PCIe 2.0 slot or dual x8 slots enabling CrossFireX.

As for X48, that is an upgrade from the higher end chipset X38s. These generally are for people who want more control in their overclocking, etc. (Premium motherboards) They are usually 300-400$
 
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Right, so P45. It'd take and handle a 4870 or 9800GX2 and let it perform fully? (16x)

Also, it'd take my Q6600?

Beyond that, which brands are to be avoided?

Cheers :)
 
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Well, P45 is basically a process shrink of P35, so mainly better overclocking, but 4870 or 9800GX2 doesn't even saturate PCI-E 1.1 (16x), so PCI-E 2.0 is just to provide headroom in case something does saturate PCI-E 1.1 in the future. (At the moment, GTX 280 doesn't saturate PCI-E 1.1 either). Yes, it is the same socket type, LGA775, so Q6600 will fit.

Personally at the moment, if you have a P35, there really isn't that much of a reason to upgrade to a P45 chipset. Since the next Intel chipset will not be LGA775 based, so P45 will be the last revision to the LGA775. But if you still want one, I probably would recommend Asus or Gigabyte.
 
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