Board for E6600

Ol!ver

Ol!ver

Ol!ver

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It's looking like my DFI Ultra-D has packed up, so instead of getting another I'm going to use it as an excuse to upgrade :) I'm looking at the two bundles that OCUK do, purely because I can't be bothered with messing around finding RAM that works with a certain board etc, not again. So, which of the gigabyte and asus board should I be getting? Not got a clue about the INTEL side of things I'm afraid, never built a machine based on one !


Cheers
 
Looking at the bundles they don't seem to be offering any with the new Intel P35 chipsets.

I'd recommend buying separately, and it's hard to look past the Gigabyte P35 DS3R and P35 DS3P.

The memory forum will give you plenty of information on which memory is suitable for them. They're nowhere near as picky as the nf4 DFi boards were.
 
re the P35 boards sustantially better then? What RAM speed do I want to be looking at? DDR3 or 2?
 
They're not substantially better, but they will support the next generation of Intel chips. It's pretty hard to recommend a P965 board unless you're under a budget. Even then I'd advise biting the bullet and spending an extra 25 quid on the P35.

Memory wise, DDR2 PC6400 is what's needed for a E6600.
 
Got the same board coming tomorrow :)

Also ordered

- Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.13GHz (1066FSB)
- Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz
- Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme

Should keep my happy for a while :D
 
Cob said:
It'll be grand.

Gigabytes P35 boards are matching their strong P965 boards.
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All installed fine, running XP no probs so far :) Not changed anything in the bios for the RAM nor CPU, so all running at default. Anything in particular I need to look at? Had a very quick look and there's so much in there that, coming from an AMD background, looks very odd :)
 
tweakinfreak said:
Got the same board coming tomorrow :)

Also ordered

- Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.13GHz (1066FSB)
- Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz
- Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme

Should keep my happy for a while :D
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What's the difference between the normal one and the 'C'? Never looked, just got the most expensive one to be safe !
 
The p35C-DS3R has 6 ram slots 4 for DDR2 and 2 for DDR3 RAM. DDR3 slots will take a max of 4 gigs. The DDR2 will take 8. You can't populate DDR2 and DDR3 at the same time obviously.

Cheers,

BlueSoulJah
 
For some reason it's reporting that it's running single channel. I put the sticks in slots 0 and 1, as I thought that was what the manual wanted ! Must have got that wrong then.
 
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