QX9650 what MB ???

[HHM]

Hi ,... as in subject line ,... what MB for QX9650 ?

I would like a P35 ,.. and Abit IP35 PRO is my favourite ,... any good ?

Or any better suggestions ?

(It need to be OC friendly and have the same features as in IP35-Pro)

thanks for any help

 

[Meronem]

what features are you specifically looking for that the ip35 board has ?

 

[HHM]

what features are you specifically looking for that the ip35 board has ?

its for my video-rig

Iam looking for Firewire, matrix raid, 3 x PCI, esata, P35 for low consuming
and high FSB compared , OC-friendly, furthermore IP35 pr is known
and recomended many times for ex with Q9450 ,.. so I thought it might do
well with the QX as well,..

I am likely having a QX9650 insteadt of the Q9450 originally planed, and now
whant to know if the IP35 PRO is still the MB to get, or I have to reconsider
what MB to get also,

I am open for any suggestions and opinion ,...

 

[Cob]

Well the IP35 Pro will be grand with it (mine did 480x8 Prime95 stable with my Q9450).

But you may be better looking at the new P45 chipset, particulary the ASUS P5Q range. My Q9450 is Prime95 stable at 4ghz (500x8) in my P5Q Deluxe.

 

[Meronem]

I've never been a fan of the IP35 from abit, had a few, all bad, but I would suggest P45 for the CPU, just purely because its newer!

 

[bigmike20vt]

Hi

good thread and v useful for me. i have been looking at benchmarks however and most of them have the P5Q range as being slower than the P35. Is this just a bios issue which has been fixed? otherwise it seems a little backwards to squeeze every last mhz out of the cpu only to have the baord slow you down.

any otehr thoughts?

cheers

 

[HHM]

Well the IP35 Pro will be grand with it (mine did 480x8 Prime95 stable with my Q9450). But you may be better looking at the new P45 chipset, particulary the ASUS P5Q range. My Q9450 is Prime95 stable at 4ghz (500x8) in my P5Q Deluxe.

Thanks to all, and especially you Cob, for once again taking the time, sofar as
you said a while back, my 2 x 1 GB 6400 OCZ would likely limit me to around
3.6 Ghz with the IP35/Q9450 combo, but I just managed to get a new QX9650
for 359 pounds, more, but a good price, and I can now keep OCZ ram and use
them to the fullest as long as I want, and be happy about owning the flagship
that allows later improvement, look forward to see how far I can push the QX
with my thermalright ultima 90i any suggestions ???

And what will be the "buttleneck" when I start ? my case is lim-line, (no space
for a 120 extreme cooler) ,.. and will the cooler be the limiting factor ? in that
case maybe one of these easy compact water-kits might be an solution ?

I will consider the P5Q range, according to your decription, especially with
some better ram, later, it would be possible to up the FSB considerable in
comparison with IP35, I guess there is a P5Q that will meet my needs, and
if I shop around they are not nessesaryly so much more expensive

For an start I am not overly demanding, though I have seen a QX do 4.6
on extreme air, but I would be happy about 4.0-4.3 that would justify the
QX 160 punds more-price for me ,.. (compared to 3.4-3.6 with Q9450).

 

[Cob]

The 45nm quads run quite cool, and the QX range seems to need a lot less vcore for 4ghz than the Q9450's do, so good air cooling should see you get to 4ghz. But if your case is cramped then it will likely affect temps too.

Since you'll not be needing to squeeze every last mhz out of the FSB with the QX chip, then the IP35 Pro would be more than enough, but personally I see no reason to get a P35 over a P45 (yes P35 is mature, but P45 is suffering from a suprisingly low number of problems for its age).

 

[Cob]

Hi

good thread and v useful for me. i have been looking at benchmarks however and most of them have the P5Q range as being slower than the P35. Is this just a bios issue which has been fixed? otherwise it seems a little backwards to squeeze every last mhz out of the cpu only to have the baord slow you down.

any otehr thoughts?

cheers

P45 can't run the same tight PL's as P35 can atm. Whether this is a BIOS issue or a hardware issue isn't clear yet. So at say 400x8 the P35 will be a little faster once the PL's have been pulled in as far as they can. But, P45 will reach a far higher FSB than P35, and use less volts, so overall the P45 can be made to run faster than P35 with the same CPU.

 

[WJA96]

Don't skimp on the motherboard. In many ways you can ruin a very nice CPU by buying a cheap motherboard. QX9650 is an extreme CPU, buy a good X48 motherboard to go with it.