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2600k + motherboard advice

gareth170

gareth170

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hi

im thinking of going to intel as i've come in to some money

which motherboard as best for me? it needs to have atleast 2 pice 16x @ 16x/16x or 16x/8x, atleast 1 pcie 1x which can be useable when both pice 16x slots are in use, 1 pci slot which can be useable, atleast 8 sata2/3, a fully UEFI bios

total price needs to be £400 or under.
 
Unless the motherboard has an NF200 chip it will only run at x8/x8.

Some boards with an NF200 chip, starting at £230, will work at x16/x16. Some cut out the NF200 chip for dual cards and just work at x8/x8 anyway.

As x8 is only around a 2% performance reduction from x16 you perhaps want to re-think your requirements.

If you're happy with x8/x8 then the boards are much cheaper.
 
is this a good motherboard Asus P8P67 PRO? or is Z68 Chipset better?

i would lose trifire with any of them because they do 8x/8x. im not to happy about but i guess maybe it'll be ok
 
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The 6990 @ 8x would be fine, there was a review from Linus or someone else who was using an 8x lane with a 6990 and it was seen as within the margin of error.

Personally, I'd go for a gen 3 board, be that an MSI or an Asrock, or possibly wait for the new Asus gen 3 boards.

6990 on 8x, then 6950 on 8x wouldn't really amount to any loss, besides the fact you'd never notice if there was, the chances are that you're CPU bottleneck anyway at present.

And, I never thought I'd see the day that even you would give up on AMD.
However, bearing in mind your own personal circumstance, and the frankly stupid LGA retention thing, I'd recommend you ask an OCUK member that lives close by to do it, as opposed your carer.
 
I hope you didn't take my comment in offence, just, the LGA socket, pulling down the retention thing was one of the worst things I've ever done, I felt like I was snapping the board in two.
It's also a fair bit more fragile than PGA (Imo).
 
Hey gareth!

I've just bought the ASrock Extreme 4 Gen 3 series board last night with a 2500k - total was about £320.

You'll be pushed to find a 16x/16x board tbh when it comes to Intel thats priced without breaking the bank.

Check out some reviews on if 16x is actually needed mate, you'll find x8/x8 will give about a 1% performance decrease so its not anything to worry about.

hth ;)
 
The AMD fans are falling one by one ey Zoomee :p
Personally Gareth, I'd go for the 2500k, see how you fair with that, which will allow you more flexability with a board, then go for an i7 when Ivy launches, be that a 2700k or an i7 Ivy.
 
You're looking at the likes of the MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) or Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 if you want Z68, full UEFI BIOS and 8 SATA ports.

Neither of which are in stock at OcUK :(
 
Martini1991 said:
The 6990 @ 8x would be fine, there was a review from Linus or someone else who was using an 8x lane with a 6990 and it was seen as within the margin of error.
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so so running a6990 @ 8x would still give 8x to both gpus ? i thought both gpus would be at 4x

Martini1991 said:
Personally, I'd go for a gen 3 board, be that an MSI or an Asrock, or possibly wait for the new Asus gen 3 boards.
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yeah

i won't be ordering till end of next week or the week after due to waiting for bank to pay up.. ;)

Martini1991 said:
And, I never thought I'd see the day that even you would give up on AMD.
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lol.. i may have both amd and intel...

Martini1991 said:
bearing in mind your own personal circumstance, and the frankly stupid LGA retention thing, I'd recommend you ask an OCUK member that lives close by to do it, as opposed your carer.
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yeah i most likely do that i'll just get the hardware first.
 
That asrock is just too darn sexy - had my heart set on it since I first seen it! - plus its a gen 3 board (so, ready for PCI-e 3.0 gfx when they come out next year).

I'm still an Intel hater, but what can we do when AMD shaft us like this!!! :( lol.

@@ Martini - yeah, you were the first to fall :p
 
You *may* be able to request OCUK bundle it with the CPU already installed? That would possibly be your best option, if they allow that.
EDIT : I don't know the specifics Gareth as regards the 6990 on an 8x lane, however I know it won't be affected much. Worst case scenario you *suffer* until Ivy turns it PCI-E 3.0, then you'll get the same bandwidth as x16 2.0.
 
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Martini1991 said:
You *may* be able to request OCUK bundle it with the CPU already installed? That would possibly be your best option, if they allow that.
EDIT : I don't know the specifics Gareth as regards the 6990 on an 8x lane, however I know it won't be affected much. Worst case scenario you *suffer* until Ivy turns it PCI-E 3.0, then you'll get the same bandwidth as x16 2.0.
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yeah i didn't think about that. i'll ask them when im ready to order..

doesn't the card need to be PCI-E 3.0 also?
 
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