Absolute best top 5 Q6600 G0 motherboards

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HI Everyone Merry Christmas, I am new to this forum my name is James and have been doin a lot of reading the last few days, so much info here But i have a question I am looking for the absolute best top 5 motherboards for the Q6600 G0 prefferably DDR2 but if you need to throw in a couple of DDR3 i may consider them but dont really want to upgrade my memory atm.

I will be clocking it on the new board as i am on my current board but i have a few restrictions with this one. So any help would be great Thanks James. :)

My Current Spec is:

Intel Q6600 G0 Slacr
Asrock G41M-LE
Akasa AK-965
Ocz ModXstream Pro 600w Psu
Ocz Platinum Rev2 PC6400-(DDR2 800) 2GB
Pny NvIDIA 9800GT Pcie 512mb
Maxtor 160GB Ide
 
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DFIs can be a bit flakey IMO, something like a foxconn bloodrage or one of the later asus rampage boards would be the best for clocking and some sort of stability.
 
Since the Q6600 is a bit older, even P35 boards will happily clock the hell out of it.

I'm currently using a P5Q Pro and it's great for clocking, but the gigabyte P35C-DS3R that I had before seemed just as good for that era of CPUs.

I'd look to go second hand if I were you, due to the low amount of decent (and reasonably priced) socket 775 boards about now. Things have well and truly started to move onto the next two intel sockets now.
 
Thanks for uber quick replies, So is there a specific chipset i should go for as mentioned above. I have been considring the following boards.

Asus Blitz series
P5K3 but would need to DDR3
Asus Striker extreme
Asus Maximus Formula II

Was also told to go for a p35 / Intel965/975 / Nvidia 680i chipset

Seems everyone has there prefference but i dont want to spend a small fortune on a mobo and not be happy with it.. If i want to go further than 1333Mhz sholud i get a 1600fsb board?
 
Whatever you do don't touch a 680i board or any nForce chipset board really... you will NOT get good 65nm quad clocking on them...

Personally I'd avoid asus as well... while they are often top of teh clocking leaderboard the chipset build quality is a bit iffy.

I had good clocking with my Q6600 on the P35-DS3R board I use for my main non-gaming PC - solid all around board but a P45 would be better.
 
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Whatever you do don't touch a 680i board or any nForce chipset board really... you will NOT get good 65nm quad clocking on them...

Personally I'd avoid asus as well... while they are often top of teh clocking leaderboard the chipset build quality is a bit iffy.

I had good clocking with my Q6600 on the P35-DS3R board I use for my main non-gaming PC - solid all around board but a P45 would be better.
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Hmmm I was told the Nvidia chipset would be better as using a Nvidia graphics card or doesnt that matter.
 
Doesn't matter... the only reason to use an nForce chipset board is for SLI with LGA775 CPUs... otherwise avoid like the plague.
 
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Doesn't matter... the only reason to use an nForce chipset board is for SLI with LGA775 CPUs... otherwise avoid like the plague.
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Ah i see. What it is iv'e done a mate loads of favours, like put around 400 hours into his skyline and he is gonna buy me a board cost doesn't really matter.....
 
On the newer p45 chipset, the best boards are probably from gigabyte and asus, asus build quality has improved quite a lot in recent times, the p5q series are fantasic overclocking boards, (had both a q6600 and q9550 in a p5q deluxe, 3.8ghz on each cpu) though the jurys still out on their warranty service. As previously reccomended, avoid nforce 680i, theyre terrible boards with quads.
 
SO P45 or X48, Asus rampage formula, asus maximus 2 formula, Foxconn Bloodrage(not seen any bumph online about this one, Which P5Q would be best as there is around 9 different ones....Ok so if money wasnt really an issue what would be your top choice. feel free to add others.....Muchos gratias
 
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yeah P45 or X48 also to add for the to the brands, J&W very very hard to get in this country through

also, avoid the Nforce chipsets as they can be problematic and don't clock too well on average
 
Personally, I'd go for one of the newer Intel chipsets. Best experiences of overclocking on 775 CPU's was on a P5Q-E, but any of the P5Q range are pretty stable for overclocking at a good price point.
 
I still wouldn't go with the asus... maybe I'm just unlucky but while I've hit high overclocks on asus boards none of them have lasted very long - except the P5G31 in my media PC... RMA'd the Striker Extreme 3 times and none of them lasted more than a few months.
 
I had terrible luck with the asus a8n series sli boards, had two deluxe models and one premium die in the space of a year, gave them a miss for a while when i moved to s775 on an evga 680i a1 (will never buy an evga product again, support is abysmal) Took a gamble and went with the p5q deluxe and it was a great board, very well built and a great clocking board, decided to stick with asus on my i7 setup with the p6t dlx v2, very impresse with it so far.
 
The asus p5q deluxe is about the best going now, although I would have liked a gigabyte UD3 non-L version (4-phase); I can't fault it yet.

This is what I've got so far (copied from a post elsewhere).

I am just proverbially dipping my toe in the water. I think I have a good chance of 3.8Ghz, 450fsb; but wouldn't hesitate to run it higher but I may need some proper pc8500 4Gb ram. I've got either 2x (or 4x) 1Gb crucial pc2-6400c4 (had some just like it at 1150Mhz ages ago), or 2x2Gb corsair xms6400c5 ver3.1 1.8v (possibly good for 472ddr +0.2-0.3v).

Also my +12v is 12.15v according to a DMM not as in speedfan.
Vcore goes from 1.224v load to 1.264v idle ( believe I'm lower than what the bios gave by default, I've been seeing 1.3v in everest for default.)

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ASUS P5Q DLX Template :

JumperFree Configuration Settings
AI Overclock tuner: Enabled
CPU Ratio Setting: 8.5
FSB Strap to North Bridge: 333
FSB Frequency: 400
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: 5:6
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A1: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A2: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B1: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B2: AUTO
DRAM Timing Control: Manual

1st Information :

CAS# Latency: 5
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay: 5
DRAM RAS# Precharge: 5
DRAM RAS# Activate to Precharge: 18
RAS# to RAS# Delay : AUTO
Row Refresh Cycle Time: 55
Write Recovery Time: AUTO
Read to Precharge Time: AUTO

2nd Information :

READ to WRITE Delay (S/D): AUTO
Write to Read Delay (S): AUTO
WRITE to READ Delay (D): AUTO
READ to READ Delay (S): AUTO
READ to READ Delay (D): AUTO
WRITE to WRITE Delay (S): AUTO
WRITE to WRITE Delay (D): AUTO

3rd Information :

WRITE to PRE Delay: AUTO
READ to PRE Delay: AUTO
PRE to PRE Delay: AUTO
ALL PRE to ACT Delay: AUTO
ALL PRE to REF Delay: AUTO
DRAM Static Read Control: Disabled
DRAM Read Training: AUTO
MEM. OC Charger: AUTO
AI Clock Twister: AUTO
AI Transaction Booster: AUTO
Common Performance Level [5]
Pull-In of CHA PH1: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHA PH2: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHA PH3: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHA PH4: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHB PH1: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHB PH2: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHB PH3: DISABLED
Pull-In of CHB PH4: DISABLED

CPU Voltage: 1.2875
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2): AUTO
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3): AUTO
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.52 (+0.02 over default)
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.22 (+0.02 over default)
DRAM Voltage: 1.9v (Using the old crucial ram like crucial anniversary so I'm not held back by Corsair xms6400c5 2x2Gb)
NB Voltage: 1.22 (+0.02 over default IIRC)
NB GTL Reference: AUTO
SBridge Voltage: 1.1 or minimum
PCIE SATA Voltage: 1.1 or minimum

Load Line Calibration: Disabled
CPU Spread Spectrum: Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: Disabled
CPU Clock Skew : Normal
NB Clock Skew : Normal

Advance CPU Settings
CPU Ratio Setting: Manual
CPU VID: Default
C1E Suppport: Disabled
Max CPUID Value Limit: Disabled
Intel® Virtualization Tech: Disabled
Vanderpool Technology: Disabled
CPU TM Function: Disabled
Execute Disable Bit: Disabled

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