Which Bundle To Buy?

setter said:
Either of those boards will be fine, the p6t dlx v2 is basically the direct competitor board to the ud5. As Hesky has said, no matter what board you do decide to go for, its best to read up on i7 overclocking and start from scratch yourself. Ive never worked with the ud5 myself but i do own a p6t dlx v2 and ive found it to be very easy to overclock on. One thing you should take into account is aftermarket support should something go wrong with the board, gigabyte have a uk based returns service which by all accounts is pretty good, asus on the other hand have a pretty bad track record concerning rma, though theyre reputedly in the process of addressing this issue.
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Thank you for the advice.. I am now torn between the P6T dlx 2 or the UD5 .. I like the UD5 as I had it for a few days but I hated the cold starts as it rebooted 3 or 4 times before actually going into windows and this is so annoying. so I don't want to experience this again .. this is why I am trying to look for another board which will be as good as the ud5 .. but I don't want an overkill motherboard which I will not be using. you have seen my specs so which board would you reccomend .. is your board stable and would you say better than the UD5? Thanks..

Also should I just wait for the order to arrive and check the UD5 see if it works ok if not send it back and then get the Asus board or shall I not take the chance and just got for the ASUS board now?
 
From my own personal use i can reccomend the p6t dlx v2, its been rock steady since day one, the bios is pretty easy to understand, and a solid board for overclocking on. I have heard of a few people having cold boot issues with the ud5, but then there are quite a lot off people who have no issues with it, with the ud5 being a very popular board your always going to hear more incidents of people having issues, probably due to more peope having it. I dont think one is any better han the other as such, you may just have been unlucky with your first board. See how things go with the new ud5 firstly.
 
setter said:
From my own personal use i can reccomend the p6t dlx v2, its been rock steady since day one, the bios is pretty easy to understand, and a solid board for overclocking on. I have heard of a few people having cold boot issues with the ud5, but then there are quite a lot off people who have no issues with it, with the ud5 being a very popular board your always going to hear more incidents of people having issues, probably due to more peope having it. I dont think one is any better han the other as such, you may just have been unlucky with your first board. See how things go with the new ud5 firstly.
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thank you mate.. really nice to hear someone who understands.. thats what I was actually hoping.. I hope it was just an unlucky board and I hope this one will be a good solid board which won't let me down.. however would you not reccomend me to use the overclockers profile which they use on this package? I have no idea of how to overclock a system.. well I have an idea and I know it involved tweaking the voltages etc but never done one myself.. what do you reccomend? or shall I just keep the stock loads? will I notice any improvement if I were to overclock on everyday normal use? ie photoshop, downloading.. loading programs etc.. I am not a gamer and will not be using the cpu to the max anyway .. just want an overclocked system as would like the most out of my pc.. thanks for the advice :)
 
I wouldnt reccomend using an overclocked profile. The profile you have will have been tailored specifically for the hardware it was originally installed onto. No two systems with identical components will overclock on the exact same settings due to minute differences between individual components. Id see how the system performs at stock with the various applications that you use, if you then feel that you need extra performance look into overclocking, if you google guides for your specific motherboard they can give you a good idea of the process involved.
 
setter said:
I wouldnt reccomend using an overclocked profile. The profile you have will have been tailored specifically for the hardware it was originally installed onto. No two systems with identical components will overclock on the exact same settings due to minute differences between individual components. Id see how the system performs at stock with the various applications that you use, if you then feel that you need extra performance look into overclocking, if you google guides for your specific motherboard they can give you a good idea of the process involved.
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Thank you .. I shall leave it at stock load in that case.. would you reccomend this package over what I have ordered at stock load:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-012-OB

would you say this is a more powerfull combination over the stock load of what I have ordered?
 
another option may be to cancel the UD5 and go with the UD7 which has USB3 and more future proof really I guess... It will cost a little more approx £60.00 more than the UD5 and may ask help here if I need to overclock.. is this a good optino or is there reported problems with the UD7 as well?
 
mkohman said:
Thank you .. I shall leave it at stock load in that case.. would you reccomend this package over what I have ordered at stock load:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-012-OB

would you say this is a more powerfull combination over the stock load of what I have ordered?
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Im not to sure on the performance of the i5 cpu's, but you will loose tri channel memory and hyperthreading on the i5 750

mkohman said:
another option may be to cancel the UD5 and go with the UD7 which has USB3 and more future proof really I guess... It will cost a little more approx £60.00 more than the UD5 and may ask help here if I need to overclock.. is this a good optino or is there reported problems with the UD7 as well?
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Being a rather new board theres very little info on how the ud7 compares to other x58 boards.
 
I think you're worrying too much. I currently have running;

4 x XFX X58 with i920 C0
2 x Gigabyte EX58-UD5 (one with i920 C0, one with i920 D0)
1 x ASUS P6T with i920 C0
1 x EVGA X58 3x Sli with i920 C0
1 x EVGA Classified with i950
1 x MSI GD80 with i750

and all of them are doing at least 4GHz with decent RAM. The UD5 is a superb motherboard. You might get an extra 100-200MHz with a better motherboard but you have as good a chance of getting the best from your CPU with the UD5, plus there is huge amounts of advice and support available here and on other forums.

It is a safe choice, and a very, very, good one.
 
WJA96 said:
I think you're worrying too much. I currently have running;

4 x XFX X58 with i920 C0
2 x Gigabyte EX58-UD5 (one with i920 C0, one with i920 D0)
1 x ASUS P6T with i920 C0
1 x EVGA X58 3x Sli with i920 C0
1 x EVGA Classified with i950
1 x MSI GD80 with i750

and all of them are doing at least 4GHz with decent RAM. The UD5 is a superb motherboard. You might get an extra 100-200MHz with a better motherboard but you have as good a chance of getting the best from your CPU with the UD5, plus there is huge amounts of advice and support available here and on other forums.

It is a safe choice, and a very, very, good one.
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Thank you so much for this reassurance.. I am going to stick with the UD5 and give it a second chance when it arrives hopefully this week.. If it plays up again I will send it back for another board but in the mean time I will just wait for the board to arrive and then take it from there.. I hope I will not have the cold reboot start problem again.. Also would you not reccomend to use the Overclockers profile for this bundle..I don't know how to overclock so I was hoping to use overclockers overclock profile for this bundle would you not reccomend this?
 
mkohman said:
Also would you not reccomend to use the Overclockers profile for this bundle.
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I wouldn't. Every overclock is a little bit different. You're unlikely to damage anything, but you might start chasing your tail if it doesn't boot the first time you hit F10.

mkohman said:
I don't know how to overclock so I was hoping to use overclockers overclock profile for this bundle would you not reccomend this?
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Overclocking i920's is actually very easy upto about 3.8GHz. That's plenty for most folks and with a good i920 you may even get away with using [AUTO] for all the voltage settings and just ramp up the BCLK.

Everything you have bought is 1st rate stuff so there is no reason why it shouldn't all work beautifully.
 
WJA96 said:
I wouldn't. Every overclock is a little bit different. You're unlikely to damage anything, but you might start chasing your tail if it doesn't boot the first time you hit F10.



Overclocking i920's is actually very easy upto about 3.8GHz. That's plenty for most folks and with a good i920 you may even get away with using [AUTO] for all the voltage settings and just ramp up the BCLK.

Everything you have bought is 1st rate stuff so there is no reason why it shouldn't all work beautifully.
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Would you care to please assist me in the settings which I need to apply for in scratch please if this ok with you? As you already know my gear.. I know this is probably an inconvenience to you but I would really appreciate all the help I can get as I don't really know how to set the voltages and don't know what I should change.. sorry :)
 
WJA96 said:
I think you're worrying too much. I currently have running;

4 x XFX X58 with i920 C0
2 x Gigabyte EX58-UD5 (one with i920 C0, one with i920 D0)
1 x ASUS P6T with i920 C0
1 x EVGA X58 3x Sli with i920 C0
1 x EVGA Classified with i950
1 x MSI GD80 with i750

and all of them are doing at least 4GHz with decent RAM. The UD5 is a superb motherboard. You might get an extra 100-200MHz with a better motherboard but you have as good a chance of getting the best from your CPU with the UD5, plus there is huge amounts of advice and support available here and on other forums.

It is a safe choice, and a very, very, good one.
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