Which 750i board

xerouk

xerouk

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Asus P5N-D NF750i SLI or EVGA NF750i SLI

I am trying to decide between these two boards i am not to fussed about overclocking as i think the machine stock will do all i need it to.

Is the only bonus of the EVGA board its overclocking potential?

Thanks in advance
 
EVGA.... ive found the ASUS boards are immense but can be crappy for OC'ing.

Now i know you say your not fussed about OC'ing but if you cant afford a new CPU or memory in 2 months then you can OC until you can afford.

The better option would be EVGA.
 
Thanks for the fast reply:

so i think ill order as below,

24" Dell E248WFP Silver/Black Widescreen LCD,
512MB BFG Tech 8800GT OC,
Intel Core 2 Duo, E8200, Wolfdale Core,
620W Corsair HX Series Modular SLi PSU,
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 PC2-8500
EVGA NF750i SLI,

Any advice would be appreaciated
 
xerouk said:
Thanks for the fast reply:

so i think ill order as below,

24" Dell E248WFP Silver/Black Widescreen LCD,
512MB BFG Tech 8800GT OC,
Intel Core 2 Duo, E8200, Wolfdale Core,
620W Corsair HX Series Modular SLi PSU,
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 PC2-8500
EVGA NF750i SLI,

Any advice would be appreaciated
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are you running dual GT cards? because i'd be worried about running one GT on a 24" monitor.

Shep_Cobain said:
But its entirely your choice. Or you could spend £20 extra for the Q6600 and get one that is guaranteed to OC to 3ghz.
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you could spend a similar amount extra on an E8400, which would be better than a Q6600 for most things.
 
xerouk said:
Thanks for the info guys i think ill go for the 8400 as i dont see any point in quad core.
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great choice m8, that's what I did, the E8400 is an excellent buy and great for gamers, should last you some time, and is said to be a good overclocker if need be. Since it's 45nm it saves on power and heat.

24" Dell E248WFP Silver/Black Widescreen LCD,
512MB BFG Tech 8800GT OC,
Intel Core 2 Duo, E8200, Wolfdale Core,
620W Corsair HX Series Modular SLi PSU,
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 PC2-8500
EVGA NF750i SLI,
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I bought the asus p5n-d, see here:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17871272

It was the only 750i I could find that made sense on features and price, did you go for it in the end?

Did you get the EVGA? if you did you got ripped off if you got it from the only store I found has it. Nearly twice as much as the asus.

the great thing I love about the asus is it needs no fan on the chipset, due to it's great heatsink. I've been using it for a few weeks now and it's fine and does its job. The evga uses a fan for its heatsink but it has a great layout.

I still say the asus is the better buy. I cannot fault it, the sata ports fear was not an issue since the mobo comes with 2 right angled sata cables and I'm not going SLI in a hurry.

hope the dell is good for you, as it's not tn there's more input lag, but if you're not an fps hardcore gamer it's not much of an issue I guess - and it comes with the increased viewing angle and better colour reproduction - good if you do more with your pc than just gaming. I'm going for the new BenQ v2400w when it arrives in the uk, it's a tn panel 24" around £300. Good thing about tn is you can save yourself around £100.

If you want to go sli in future you will have to upgrade your psu, that 630w corsair won't cut it, even for 2x8800gt.
see http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build_psu.html

if you still run 32bit os then 4gb isn't worth it imo, some fast 2gb in dual channel is good enough, saving on power use and heat. Around 1gb extra isn't worth it imo (around 3gb in 32bit os used). I run 4gb in 4 sticks of geil 6400 but could do fine with 2gb of it, thinking of selling the other 2gb maybe.

8800gt is an excellent buy for gamers at the moment, SLI 2 of them which isn't hard on the pocket. Good for the 24" screen.
 
I am running vista 64bit so the 4gb should be nice,also i have one 8800gt already so the second one will make it SLi although i am trying to figure out when SLi support for AOC will be released as for the PSU upgrade no one had mentioned that so far so thanks ill look into it, as long as its a modular psu im not too fussed what make.

thanks for so much information its helped a lot.
 
nice one the 4gb in vista 64bit will be wicked yeah :D
Corsair are an excellent choice I was always a corsair fan before I had to get geil last time I upgraded ram because of price.

I've had my hiper type-r 580w for about 2.5 years now and it's still going strong, was so quiet compared to the previous stock psu I'd used before that came with an old case. Has powered 4 motherboards, 3 cpus, geforce 5700le, gainward geforce 7800gs agp and a 8800gtx (currently) in its time etc happily. Stable brand and made in england. They do some higher watt models now http://www.hipergroup.com/English/ The new corsair models are said to be good too though.

What do you mean by AOC? trying to think of the game title and can't :o
 
Age of conan:P and ive been chatting on so many forums about it lately ive got fed up of typing it, but i need to find more info about when SLi will be supported fully or might aswell wait with buying some parts
 
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