Best Conroe Motherboard with this setup...

sprognak · 4 Nov 2006 at 08:28

Looking for a motherboard for some serious OC headway to go with:

Core Duo 6600
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL) (Reviewed by Gibbo at 579MHz - here

Initially seemed from here that the P5W DH was the best choice, however over here it seems that at stock voltages, a P5W64 user has got the 6600 to hit 3.585GHz! Imagine what that could do with a vcore boost!

So advice please! And why do so many go for the 965 over the 975?

Booner! · 4 Nov 2006 at 15:56

im in the same position!! Can someone with some knowledge of core duo actually advise please

Matrix · 4 Nov 2006 at 16:30

sprognak said:
Looking for a motherboard for some serious OC headway to go with:

Core Duo 6600
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL) (Reviewed by Gibbo at 579MHz - here

Initially seemed from here that the P5W DH was the best choice, however over here it seems that at stock voltages, a P5W64 user has got the 6600 to hit 3.585GHz! Imagine what that could do with a vcore boost!

So advice please! And why do so many go for the 965 over the 975?

I'm the same i'm looking for one too.
I'm lead to beleive that this Asus P5W DH Deluxe is one of th ebest out there for a E6600 as it works better with the 4mb cache.
Think the DS3 and DS4 work better with the E6300 2mb cache.

WJA96 · 5 Nov 2006 at 13:41

DS3/DS4 will clock up to FSB600. So will loads of other boards. The Core2Duo won't. Very few users can hit 3.4GHz on air. 3.6GHz is pretty much top whack. That's a 50% overclock. And that is FSB=400. So you need a motherboard that runs up to FSB 400. That's pretty much anything that's not ASRock.

The low latencies will give some benefit in SuperPi, but that's a load of cash to drop to get a second or so off SuperPi.

Why not see how far you can exploit a DS4?, and then, when you're bored with that, maybe DFI will have a decent clocking Core2Duo board out.

I genuinely don't mean to be facetious, but most of the really stupidly priced RAM is targetted at people who have run out of other ways to speed up their PC eg. people on water, if not phase cooling.

Buy a faster graphics card, or 4 small fast HDD in RAID 0 - you'll see more benefit in the real world.

Just my 2p worth.

Matrix · 5 Nov 2006 at 13:54

WJA96 said:
DS3/DS4 will clock up to FSB600. So will loads of other boards. The Core2Duo won't. Very few users can hit 3.4GHz on air. 3.6GHz is pretty much top whack. That's a 50% overclock. And that is FSB=400. So you need a motherboard that runs up to FSB 400. That's pretty much anything that's not ASRock.

The low latencies will give some benefit in SuperPi, but that's a load of cash to drop to get a second or so off SuperPi.

Why not see how far you can exploit a DS4?, and then, when you're bored with that, maybe DFI will have a decent clocking Core2Duo board out.

I genuinely don't mean to be facetious, but most of the really stupidly priced RAM is targetted at people who have run out of other ways to speed up their PC eg. people on water, if not phase cooling.

Buy a faster graphics card, or 4 small fast HDD in RAID 0 - you'll see more benefit in the real world.

Just my 2p worth.

So you do think it's not worth paying more for a Asus P5W DH Deluxe then and stick with a DS4?

Thanks

james_earl · 5 Nov 2006 at 14:16

it depends want you want it for. a lot of people myself included bought the p5w because of the features aswell as the performance.

WJA96 · 5 Nov 2006 at 14:18

Matrix said:
So you do think it's not worth paying more for a Asus P5W DH Deluxe then and stick with a DS4?

Thanks

It would be my recommendation, but you're unlikely to regret buying the ASUS.

Matrix · 5 Nov 2006 at 14:39

I was under the impression that a E6600 would run better on a 975x chipset like what the P5W DH Deluxe has?

One thing in its favour is that it has crossfire and i'm going to be buying a Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI card for my new set up.

Though at first i was looking at the DS4.

WJA96 · 5 Nov 2006 at 15:01

Matrix said:
I was under the impression that a E6600 would run better on a 975x chipset like what the P5W DH Deluxe has?

Urban myth? If anyone has any evidence to back this up, I'm quite open to be educated. My understanding is that the 965 is the better chipset.

Matrix said:
One thing in its favour is that it has crossfire and i'm going to be buying a Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI card for my new set up.

Though at first i was looking at the DS4.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/News/Motherboard/News_List.aspx?NewsID=1295 would suggest that the DS4 does support Crossfire, but only at 2 x 10x speed.

Its_Me · 5 Nov 2006 at 16:25

965 is the better chipset.

I think the myth of the 6600 on the 975 was due to the board ability, not the chipset.

now that BIOS revisions are out, most all the 965 boards are top dogs when it comes to clocking, even more so with the C2 revision.
plus the 965 officialy supports the Quad cores , doubt over the 975 (oddly)

Boards of chocie ATM are P5B-D. (avoid vanila P5B) and S3.

There are some new boards due around a week away though, but the s3 and P5B-D are well seasoned with lots of help posts about how to get the most out of them.

vocch · 5 Nov 2006 at 17:17

If you got the money to waste get Asus....if you want to save money then get DS4.....simple really.

Matrix · 5 Nov 2006 at 18:31

vocch said:
If you got the money to waste get Asus....if you want to save money then get DS4.....simple really.

I wish i did have money to waste

I can get the Asus board for £20 more elsewhere so i'm not sure still.

Say a board doesn't support crossfire can i still use a cross fire board as it still uses the pci slot it just means i can't link another one up right?