Good overclocking motherboard (not sli)

kkthxbye · 22 Apr 2008 at 00:28

Hey guys, whats the board to be buying these days. I'm looking to overclock an q6600 with an 8800gtx and 4gb 1066 ram, not bothered about it been an sli bored as ill just upgrade the card next year rather then buying another gtx.

Cheers

spicypixel · 22 Apr 2008 at 15:57

dazz25 · 22 Apr 2008 at 16:32

I've got my Q6600 at 3.6GHz on an Asus. I would highly recommend the Asus P5K.

kkthxbye · 23 Apr 2008 at 00:12

spicypixel said:
P35.

hey mate, you able to explain that one...cheers

DougFile · 23 Apr 2008 at 00:32

He means any motherboard using the P35 chipset.

Look on the product page, under components>motherboards>Intel 775 (P35 Chipset).

A lot of people on here seem to use one of the following P35 boards
Abit IP35 (especially the Pro variant)
Asus P5K (esp the Pro)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 (any variant)

All these boards (and most P35) are good overclockers.

The X38 boards are meant to be even better for overclocking but are more expensive and X48 are even more so.

Cupra · 23 Apr 2008 at 00:40

DougFile said:
He means any motherboard using the P35 chipset.

Look on the product page, under components>motherboards>Intel 775 (P35 Chipset).

A lot of people on here seem to use one of the following P35 boards
Abit IP35 (especially the Pro variant)
Asus P5K (esp the Pro)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 (any variant)

All these boards (and most P35) are good overclockers.

The X38 boards are meant to be even better for overclocking but are more expensive and X48 are even more so.

p35 tends to get higher stable clocks

DougFile · 23 Apr 2008 at 00:57

Cupra said:
p35 tends to get higher stable clocks

Is that because X38/X48 need better cooling?