Need a really good overclocking mobo for Q6600

[GingaNinja]

Hi all. What would you recommend for an ageing Q6600 that's never been above 2.7GHz (cheap mobo limitations). I'd like to give it a last run before I put it out to pasture (prolly in another 22 years, as I'm a tight so and so). Not interested in water or anything - just want to get a decent OC with air. Have a good PSU, so that shouldn't hold me back.

Your thoughts would be welcome!

Ginga

 

[jak731]

budget?

 

[GingaNinja]

Wow - thanks for the rapid reply. In answer, well I'm a little behind the curve here, so I wouldn't want to spend anything over 100 really. I'm also using DDR2, which I'd like to hang on to for now (unless anyone gives me a good, performance-related reason to change that). So I suppose that limits me to socket 775? I'd also like it to be Xfire compatible if poss.

(I really didn't include enough information in my initial post!)

Ginga

 

[jak731]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-119-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1050 is really your only choice on ocuk if you want to very high end crossfire (think 2x 4870x2) or http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-280-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1155 if your are just wanting the option to crossfire

 

[jbloggs]

Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P

Asus P5Q Pro

Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5

The P45 is a better o/cing chip, the X48 has 2 x16 PCI-E @x16, whereas the P45 is 2 x16 @x8, however it is only if your were putting the likes of the 4870 X2 in crossfire that the difference would be noticed...

 

[Voxination]

Either the aforementioned P5Q Pro or the P5Q Deluxe will give nice high FSB whilst retaining DDR2 support. Both are capable of Crossfire at 8x bandwidth (P45 limitations.)

 

[GingaNinja]

Thanks very much everyone. Will look into these options.

Cheers

Ginga