New motherboard for overclocking

[Vigoro]

I am looking for a new motherboard to overclock with after me old one gave way without me even overclocking at all. I was using a EVGA 650i Ultra board but i ain't sure i want to be using it again now. The motherboard has got to be capable of running my Q6600 and would be nice having support for SLi incase i decide to invest in the future, but let me know of any motherboard that would be good for this as the SLi isnt always necessary

 

[gurusan]

I recommend avoiding SLI....single GPU setups are plenty powerful for a 20.1'' monitor and the nvidia chipsets are lacking in a number of things in my opinion.

I recommend a X38 based board...or if you ahve a little more to spend I recommend looking at the DFI X48-T2R which will be released any day now.

 

[w3bbo]

You will normally find that by the time you decide to go SLI there is a faster single card solution available so although SLI is a nice luxury it really isn't of much consequence unless you get SLI straight away.

Intel based chipsets are getting higher overclocks on average than their Nvidia counterparts so I would look towards a p35 or x38 if you are looking to buy immidiatley or wait a couple of weeks for p45/x48 to start to surface but bear in mind there is little benefit in going x48 over x38 even though there will no doubt be a price premium for early adopters. The P35 based chipsets have very mature bios's now so will cause little problems and for single card users there isn't a better overclocking chipset around atm.

 

[Vigoro]

ok, well is there any manufacturers that you would know of to stay away from cause normally i just got asus but at the time there wasnt an asus board that matched the price i got the evga board for.

 

[w3bbo]

Asus, Abit and gigabyte (if you you can stomach the colour!) are all good manufacturers and you won't go far wrong with them.

 

[Vigoro]

dont care about the colour i dont spend much time looking at it it is inside a case and it doenst have a windowed side