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Spec me a mobo!

KWJay

KWJay

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Hi guys.

I'm just about to come into a nice bit of cash after a merger of the company i work for and am planning a new build. You can see what i have in my sig at the moment, but i plan to go intel and quad core. I'm looking at building the following system...

Q6600 Go steping,
Swiftech H20 120 compact cooler,
2Gig DDR1066,
8800 GTX - taken from current system
X-Fi - either platinum or elite pro for music recording/production/editing
2x Spinpoint 250's - one from current system plus new one,
Optical drives from current system (Pioneer burner, LG Rom drive)
Antec P182/P190
Enermax Liberty 500W psu - from current system

Peripherals e.g. monitor, keyborad, mouse etc all from current setup.

Basically i would like some advice. Which mobo would be best suited, which set of ram and which case would you guys recommend. Obviously i want to keep costs as economic as possible, but i'll be able to sell off my old parts to regain some cost.
So, what are your thoughts? :D
 
Ok, i've not had an intel chip for ages, so when i looked at the 1066FSB i assumed that 1066 mem would be the best match for it. I don't really want to OC the mem that much or run on too much of a divider if i can help it. I've been used to clocking AMD's for years now, so a little advice on clocking a C2D would be useful too, do the methods differ much?
 
Intel's FSB numbers are "quad pumped" so a rated FSB of 1066 is actually 266 MHz. Double that to get the DDR number for the RAM. 533 MHz corresponds with PC2-4300. At stock you'll be underclocking PC2-5300C3 or PC2-6400C4 quite a bit.
 
Ahhh, i get you, cheers Billy. Anyone else with any other suggestions? I've had limitted experience with Abit boards, none of it good! lol! (Not that i'm knocking them, just not had reat experiences.) What are the current Asus boards like?
 
I've used an Asus P5K WS which was borked from the factory. I traded it back in for a P5K Deluxe which has been absolutely fantastic. I love everything about it. :)

EDIT: This was with 2x2 GiB RAM, RAID 0, an 8800 GTX, and a Q6600.
 
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