Im crazy - should i change my motherboard?

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MeatLoaf

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Currently running a Gigabyte P35C Rev 2 mobo with a Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz and an 8800GT

Im really considering changing my board for a 680i board, preferably the EVGA one as i want the SLI support. 780i is out of the question due to the cost.

If i was to get a 680i id only do it if i could get a straght swap.
 
from some of the stories about the 680i chipset that appear on this forum that im sure your familiar with, i would advise against it unless there is a very good reason you need sli support, this may include you have a 30+" monitor and want to play games in its native res at a very high graphical setting. otherwise save up for a better GPU or a better sli chipset that will OC the q6600 without having a reputation as bad as the 680i
 
Gigabyte N650SLI-DS4 and N650SLI-DS4L are the only nVidia 6 series boards I could possibly reccomend - some of the other 650i boards are okish but I would still avoid them...

680i is horrendous and you'd be beyond mad to swap from a P35 board to one.

I'm waiting myself to see how the 750i works out... I've got a N650SLI-DS4L board here to play with and so far, after I put some additional cooling on the NB, its a decent board, only downsides are its only dual x8 in SLI mode and support for 45nm CPUs is kinda up in the air... I've really thrashed the thing over the last week and its responded really well aslong as I keep the NB cool.
 
I had the Asus 650i and i thought it was pretty good but only got my quad to 3Ghz which is why i swapped to a P35 board.

Id forgotten about the 750i boards, will this be the replacement for the 650i boards?
 
Yeah pretty much...

Unfortunatly I don't have a quad to test in the Gigabyte 650i - the board itself quite happily overclocks an E6600 to 3.95gig and while the CPU won't pass orthos (atleast not at any half sensible vcore), the board itself seems perfectly stable - so it might do ok with quads...
 
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I have the EVGA 680i motherboard and i like it, but i just can't seem to get my quad stable when it's overclocked and i yes have the A1 version!. There great for core2duo's tho, but in my experience, they just aren't good for overclocking quads. Loads of people seem to get very high clocked quads on this board, but it probably depends if you get a good board or not.

If you really want to go SLi i wait for the 780i to come in stock, at the moment i'm waiting in queue for the EVGA 780i, which seems to be doing a whole lot better than the 680i and so far the overclocking seem to be good.
 
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