£150 which i7 mobo?

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hi, i had intended to buy before but i only had £70-80 and was looking at 2nd hand for a Rampage2 but since then they seem to have gone up to £130. at that cost i don't see the point in buying old stock when i can get a newer one like


Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard [90-MIBD80-G0EAY00Z]

that somebody else kindly recommended on here a while ago.

my question is, which mobo would you recommend for £150, i could probably stretch to £170 if i had to, or is the one listed above still the best to get?

wish i could afford the Rampage 3 but i can't atm.

thanks

just seen the Asus P6X58D Premium Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard is going for more than the D-E, why?
 
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Asus P6X58D-E is still the best bet at that price point, half the price of some of these so called uber mobo's but will still clock the same, if you plan on overclocking, if you don't plan on overclocking then its still a cracking mobo.

If u get this week, its only £144 every penny counts lol.

In that budget you are a looking at either Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R or Asus P6X58D-E, and both being roughly the same cost. Every single time someone asks this i have to say the Asus, its just better imho.
 
i appreciate your reply, thanks.

i would love to have a go at overclocking but will have to do some serious reading on here 1st as i haven't done it before.

with that in mind i remember reading that scrapping the cpu fan that comes with them is usually a better way to go. is water cooled massively important or can i buy a good dry cooler such as the "cooler master V8" i like the look of?

Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooler (Socket 940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1366) [RR-UV8-XBU1-GP]
 
Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard [90-MIBD80-G0EAY00Z]

i use this and it is a cracker... oc to 4ghz for 2.80 so it is a good oc'er not had any real problems with it. also future proof for the forseeable future. get it now as it is cheap as well here in ocuk

i also use the cpu cooler that is on today deal http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-072-AK
i have a spare fan as well, for a pull push setup, but haven`t added the second fan yet as the temp i am getting are quite low compared to other oc'ed bundles.
 
i'm itching like mad, got my finger on the buy button here :D

looks like it's a defo for this board then. thanks guys. just gotta know if i can use that "cooler master V8" from here now or not?

i have already saved the money for

Corsair Dominator GT 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 16000C8 2000MHz Triple Channel Kit (CMT6GX3M3A2000C8)

side note: damm, thats gone up since i looked, it was £193 last week i think, must have been on offer here then :(
 
Hi there.

I would strongly suggest against such expensive RAM, even if you planned to overclock the heck out of it.

Due to the massive bandwidth available on the X58 platform (triple channel memory), even a standard 1333MHz kit will offer more than enough performance. Most people go with 1600MHz because there is a slight increase in performance in some apps compared to 1333MHz and it gives more scope when overclocking. However, faster than 1600MHz there is very little to be gained unless you plan to go for benchmarking records.

This is the RAM I would suggest going for.

As for the V8 cooler, do you have it or do you want to buy it? If you don't have it, I wouldn't suggest hunting it down - its not a particularly good cooler for its price. The Akasa Venon suggested above performs better and is cheaper. For a similar price to the V8, you can get this cooler and this fan - which performs a good deal better than the V8 (in fact it is one of the very best air coolers).
 
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cmndr_andi said:
Hi there.

I would strongly suggest against such expensive RAM, even if you planned to overclock the heck out of it.

Due to the massive bandwidth available on the X58 platform (triple channel memory), even a standard 1333MHz kit will offer more than enough performance. Most people go with 1600MHz because there is a slight increase in performance in some apps compared to 1333MHz and it gives more scope when overclocking. However, faster than 1600MHz there is very little to be gained unless you plan to go for benchmarking records.

This is the RAM I would suggest going for.
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i got the Corsair Dominator 6GB 1600MHz C8 for just a few more pounds than that kit
 
adam_castell said:
i got the Corsair Dominator 6GB 1600MHz C8 for just a few more pounds than that kit
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Well it is currently £17.62 more for the dominators.

You do get C8 timings (compared to c9) and fancy heatsinks for that money. But in terms of actual performance they will be nigh-on identical.
 
invaluable advise there. many thanks i appreciate it.

i have always used top end Crucial ram in the past and found when gaming it coped so well & handling multiple videoing tasks etc but your knowledge will be way over mine so i will take your advice although i think i would rather pay the £5 extra for the looks too :D

the last thing to be sure of, again thanks for the info on the fan (i was probably impulse buying) but would you still go for a fan over liquid cooling if i try to overclock?
 
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Rich-Ando said:
the last thing to be sure of, again thanks for the info on the fan (i was probably impulse buying) but would you still go for a fan over liquid cooling if i try to overclock?
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Which cooling to go for really depends on what you want it to do, how much money you can spend and how much time you can afford the project.

A properly-built custom water cooling system will always cool better than a top-end air cooler, thats just the way it is. However, such a system will cost several times more than a top-end air cooler (that megahalems + fan costs ~£52, a watercooling system with a dual or triple RAD will cost you well over £100).

Also, you would need to learn how to properly assemble the WC system, as well as how to maintain and fix it.

This may all seem a bit much, but if you want excellent cooling then it is well worth it - and many people here use these systems.


However, if you want less hassle and less cost- the air cooling option is a good one. Top-end air coolers can be used to overclock CPUs very well - for example many people use the Megahalems cooler (the one I linked to above) to achieve overclocks of 4.0-4.2GHz with the i7 900 series CPUs. A custom watercooling system would usually be able to take it a few hundred MHz higher.
 
+1 Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58.

Performs flawlessly, booted first time as stock - booted my i7 930 to 3.8GHz second boot and has been rock solid ever since.
 
with what you are saying it think i would be better off going with a normal cooler as you listed for now, then at a later stage if & when i can afford it, i could try for the other cooler.

at the moment i am using the "Xclio A380Plus V2" case which is actually quite good at cooling. this is the one with the 35cm fan on the side, 25cm on top & front and usual on back.

just back to the ram, in either case of the xms or dominator, neither come with the cooler fan the GT comes with. i am just wondering how important that fan is as if i paid the extra £23 for it then there's only about £40 different between that and buying the GT 2000mhz with the fan already?
 
you will not need the fan on your ram, plus it will make CPU cooler options limited. even with the dominator ram alone, you are limited on CPU coolers, this is not an issue with the xms ram
 
TBH, you really don't need active RAM cooling unless you plan to heavily overclock your RAM (which usually isn't required for X58 systems).

DDR3 on the whole is pretty low power, therefore does not require much in the way of cooling. Usually these active coolers are simply added marketing by RAM munfacturers to show how "fast" their memory is, even though the modules usually do not require such levels of cooling to run at rated speeds. Also, these coolers use small, high frequency fans - so they will add to the total noise of your system.
 
it's a shame there isn't a "thank you" button function on the forum. thanks to you both for your time & help. now i can rub my hands together and go order. just gotta decide which graphics cards now but that's a different forum board and i'll post there when i have saved some more.

many thanks.
 
Just incase u hav'nt ordered anything yet

Memory:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-205-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1389

Cooler:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-011-NC&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

Memory is more then fine, and is compatable with the above cooler, and with the above cooler you will comfortably hit 4-4.2ghz depending on voltages needed.

Also, when you want to try overclocking, just drop by in the overclocking and cooling section, many of us will gladly help you along.
 
From what I've read the Asus P6X58D-E is very good indeed but one thing to take note of is that it doesn't have an IDE port for any older drives you may wish to reuse.
 
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