Just bought a Q6600 G0 stepping, now what?

NinjaMaestro · 11 May 2009 at 21:48

Hey mates,
I recently bought a Q6600 G0 stepping and I'm looking for a board for it. My budget is </= 80. I would like to overclock, have sli, and pcie 2.0. I can live without sli if it is going to put me far out of budget.

My current parts that I want to tranfer into my new rig:

4gb OCZ Platinum 800mhz ddr2 (is this overclockable ram?)
450w generic psu (I know I need a better one but all in due time)
9600 gso xfx

Thanks in advance!

Kennysevenfold · 11 May 2009 at 21:55

Best bet imo,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-125-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1344

No sli unfortunately mate

NinjaMaestro · 11 May 2009 at 22:23

how much more would I have to spend to get a good sli board?

Kennysevenfold · 11 May 2009 at 23:46

Quite a bit more mate

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-265-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1057

Mattus · 12 May 2009 at 00:17

For overclocking I'd get a non-SLI board and a decent PSU. These CPUs use loads of power when overclocked - mine's only at 3.2, and I reckon it can use 135w on its own.

rjk · 12 May 2009 at 23:02

sli on a 65nm quad chip is a BAD idea

Kennysevenfold · 12 May 2009 at 23:10

rjkoneill said:
sli on a 65nm quad chip is a BAD idea

do explain.?

D D Danneh · 13 May 2009 at 00:52

rjkoneill said:
sli on a 65nm quad chip is a BAD idea

Yeah, why?

Mattus · 13 May 2009 at 00:53

Indeed - why?

VaderDSL · 13 May 2009 at 01:01

How come?

Adrianr · 13 May 2009 at 01:37

Because it er.. Isn't?

SLI on my Q6600 was brilliant.

Mr. May · 13 May 2009 at 15:26

how come iv got sli and q6600 work amazin in crysis

Kennysevenfold · 13 May 2009 at 16:08

Mr. May said:
how come iv got sli and q6600 work amazin in crysis

Because rjkoneill is talking rubbish

linktoinsanity · 13 May 2009 at 16:39

rjkoneill said:
sli on a 65nm quad chip is a BAD idea

I'm wondering why just like others here...

I'd recommend this board for sli:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-265-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1057

Though I'm not sure how good it is at overclocking (my dad's nforce 650i is quite good though), and it is over your bugdet, but it should still be ok.

MadMatty · 13 May 2009 at 17:02

He probably means its a bad idea if your the one paying the electric bills

reflux · 13 May 2009 at 17:06

SLi is not a necessary feature and I would definitely avoid it if you don't 100% need it. Almost all Nvidia chipset boards are poor performers compared to their Intel brethren, and they don't overclock very well either, especially with quads.

setter · 13 May 2009 at 18:04

reflux said:
SLi is not a necessary feature and I would definitely avoid it if you don't 100% need it. Almost all Nvidia chipset boards are poor performers compared to their Intel brethren, and they don't overclock very well either, especially with quads.

I had a lot of issues trying to oc a q6600 past 3.0ghz on a 680i board, same chip in a p45 hit 3.8ghz with relative ease.

Ninja Please! · 13 May 2009 at 19:24

Hey my ninja friend (the op) just got his chip in the mail and was thinking about this board: EVGA 132-YW-E178-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ***

I'm not much help to him as I completely skipped the 775 quads and the last dual I had was in a non OC'able intel board...

Kennysevenfold · 13 May 2009 at 20:47

setter said:
I had a lot of issues trying to oc a q6600 past 3.0ghz on a 680i board, same chip in a p45 hit 3.8ghz with relative ease.

i have the q6600 @ 3.3 on my 680i board

setter · 13 May 2009 at 20:57

Sadly my 680i died a few months after getting the q6600, (borked memory controller) had an E6600 at 3.7ghz on it previously and found it to be a very easy board to oc on with a dual core, particularly liked the option to run the ram unlinked, coupled with 2 640mb 8800gts cards it was a nice gaming rig.