Core i7 mobo

drak3 · 21 Jan 2009 at 01:31

Hello,

I plan to buy a 920 with 6GB corsair and watercool it with a GTZ block.

Is Asus P6T Deluxe my best option at the moment?

Anything better coming soon?

I ve read about some DFI boards, but how about overclocking and how they compare to asus?

(Asus looks easy to overclock, with DFI from what I read is complicated with volts etc?)

Cheers.

PS: I am upgrading from skt 939, all this i7 DDR3 puzzles me

95thrifles · 21 Jan 2009 at 01:52

you could also look at the gigabyte ex58-ud5 or even the extreme version

thevet · 21 Jan 2009 at 10:31

EVGA i would say..wish i woulda bought one of these or the asus revolution

WJA96 · 21 Jan 2009 at 17:51

The ASUS P6T seems to be a safe bet in the way that there are lots of users out there with stable overclocks on that board. Various reviews have said the competitor boards from Biostar, Gigabyte, XFX, EVGA etc. are as good or better overclockers.

The one thing that puts me off DFI is the sheer amount of adjustments in the BIOS. I really only want to change maybe 5-10 things, but to optimise a DFI board you sometimes need to change 20 or 30 settings. It's the board that fiddling with will get you a marginally better result, almost certainly, but I want a board to use, not to fiddle with.

For personal reasons, I have an XFX board on it's way to me, but that's because I got a VERY good deal on it.

MidnightLamp · 21 Jan 2009 at 19:23

im waiting out for gigabyte extreme, been out of stock here and everywhere for ages tho

evga are releasing a new board in late feb/early march which has been used in a record-breaking rig over on xtremesystems i think it is

Nick1881 · 21 Jan 2009 at 19:29

MidnightLamp said:
im waiting out for gigabyte extreme, been out of stock here and everywhere for ages tho

evga are releasing a new board in late feb/early march which has been used in a record-breaking rig over on xtremesystems i think it is

I read that the UD5 clocks just as good as the extreme, I got a good price on one, just waiting for it to come, any day now I hope.

remy87 · 21 Jan 2009 at 19:58

I got the EVGA last week a pleasure to work with
I have not yet to play around with the overclocking bit since I just ordered noctua today will be here tomorrow.

The EVGA community is awesome btw