Motherboard for OC'ing!

wrayvon · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:25

Can anyone recommend me a good motherboard for overclocking my Q6600. I currently have an XFX 680i lt, but as I have now found out for myself, it does not like overclocking!

Anyway, I would like to spend less than 80 if possible!

Thanks in advance

TheRedZealot · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:28

I would personaly get this for your budget:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

wrayvon · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:34

Yeah I have been looking at that, do you think its worth paying an extra £25 for a Asus P5k Premium? My budget is only a guideline really, but obviously everyone wants to spend as little as possible! Haha.

setter · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:37

If you can stretch your budget id go with this.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

ConTRo13R · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:38

YES simple answer

wrayvon · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:42

wrayvon said:
Yeah I have been looking at that, do you think its worth paying an extra £25 for a Asus P5k Premium? My budget is only a guideline really, but obviously everyone wants to spend as little as possible! Haha.

ConTRo13R said:
YES simple answer

setter said:
If you can stretch your budget id go with this.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Ok then, same question really, is it worth the extra £10 (or whatever) to the P5k premium then?

Sorry to be such a numpty! Got to learn somehow I suppose.

Thanks for the replies so far

ConTRo13R · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:43

P5K For The Win

setter · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:47

P5K is an older p35 chipset motherboard, so if buying new youd be best of with a newer p45 based board such as the p5q which are great with quad cores.

wrayvon · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:47

My apologies!

EDIT: Ahh I see. Thanks setter

setter · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:49

Id remove the competitor link as its against forum rules

ConTRo13R · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:49

remove the link quickly! ul get burnt and eaten by hamsters that run this forum!

blah blah blah old tech, its like one of the best OC'ing board ever

WJA96 · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:50

I'd lose the competitor link if I was you. It's against the rules you see

wrayvon · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:52

Oops! Thanks!
I feel like such a numpty asking so many questions, but for overclocking purposes, and P5Q's I should avoid? Or are they are all good?

setter · 11 Jan 2009 at 22:57

Currently using the deluxe version of the p5q with a q6600 clocked @3.8ghz, have never had any issues at all. The pro version has a few less features but will still oc as much.

Guzzidom · 11 Jan 2009 at 23:06

I use a low end P5Q-VM because I wanted to use the onboard graphics while I saved for a GPU, took my E8400 to 4.7 before I backed off (hot, hot, hot!), cost me £83.00 in the days before I had heard of OCUK (ahem).

wrayvon · 11 Jan 2009 at 23:10

Right, I think I shall go for the P5Q pro then! Thanks a lot for your help guys. You have been most helpful! First time on the forum too!

Cheers