Intel Core i7 975 chip what motherboard and memory

[IanBoyle]

hello,

Ive decided to upgrade slightly to a better chip
unfortunately this is going to mean a whole new motherboard and memory

fitting this chip into a choice of motherboards is not difficult but i really want to do a small air cooled overclock on this chip to probably 4gig +

so really just need a board and memory that will run this sort of overclock 24 hours a day at full load

as i'm stretching the budget for this upgrade on pretty much the chip if i could have some ideas on slightly less expensive motherboard and memory that would be great

all i seem to see is that the mother board of choice and memory of choice cost around £500 together

thanks in advance for all your help

best regards
Ian

 

[IanBoyle]

hello,

i'm using an overclocked q6600 at 3.4 gig just now using a tuniq 120 tower heatsink so i'm looking for something that will add at least 1 gig to the output from the quad chip i'm using just now

when i mentioned a 4 gig overclock seeing as the 975 has a default freq of 3.33 gig i was kind of hoping to get closer to 4.5 gig than slightly over 4gig

as after this upgrade i dont see me making another one any time soon

i am planning to use all 8 threads on full load so the overclock numbers will not quite be as high with stability and heat issues creeping in earlier in the overclock

thank you very much for your very quick and informative response
maybe i should have been a bit more descriptive about where my system starts from

best regards
Ian

 

[IanBoyle]

hi,

we both posted at the same time so didnt see your reply above and i'm a bit baffled by what you say about the two chips

surely a 3.33 gig chip can be clocked higher than a 2.66 gig chip ?

is there some weird thermal runaway problem with these 975 chips ?

yours very puzzled

Ian

 

[IanBoyle]

hi
i'm truly shocked by this revelation about this chip as all the bumf that i've read from intel and review sites rave about this chip

although there are not too many reviews of huge overclocks of it which i put down to the chip being quite new

i think i'll have a bit of a rethink about it maybe just getting the 920 and using the saved money for a slightly better motherboard and memory ?

this has been an eyeopener thanks everybody for your help so far

best regards
Ian

 

[IanBoyle]

hi

i will be doing boinc modeling on this machine as well which is why i though getting a chip i didnt have to overclock by as much over default would be better ( more stable and less heat ) than a very overclocked lesser chip

i can see although there may be a small benifit in this area the differance of even getting the 920 to 3.8 gig and the 975 almost maxed out at 4gig is not a big differance

this has been very interesting and saved me a ton of money and heartache to find out later all the above for myself
thank you to all who have contributed

best regards
Ian

 

[IanBoyle]

hi,

having sorta settled on the gigabyte motherboard and the 920 chip
any ideas on memory which would be nice and stable at these sort of clocks

best regards
Ian

 

[IanBoyle]

hi,

never heard of this stuff it seems very cheap compared to corsair and ocz and the like
is it comparable with those in any way ?
excuse the slight ignorance
best regards
Ian

 

[IanBoyle]

hi,

thank you very much for that guys could i ask one last question
i've just noticed my tuniq 120 wont fit on this new system which is a bit of a pain as its a great cooler
i know the new tuniq 120 extreme does fit the new systems but are there any new coolers that are maybe used for better overclocks ?

best regards
Ian

 

[IanBoyle]

hi,
thanks for that it looks a bit like the tuniq only slightly bigger
i'm wondering just how big it will be with two fans strapped to it ?

best regards
Ian

 

[IanBoyle]

hi,
i hope that will fit in between the ati card and my corsair power supply?
although it should be above the memory i would think ?

best regards
Ian