Which Intel 775 board for [email protected]+onair+stock cooling 24/7

Flanno

Flanno

Flanno

Soldato
Joined
18 Jun 2005
Posts
3,434
Looking for a non nvidia chipset board that will overclock a quad at around 400fsb but do it with stock mobo cooling. Going to be running a Thermalright Ultra 120 extreme, Crucial 6400C4 Ballisitix, and 1x8800GTX. Not worried about sli or crossfire.

From what I have read the 965 boards are very good, with the Asus Commando being excellent, but the P35 mobos overclock higher. However don't they run very very hot.

Thanks
 
Last edited:
Anyone at all ?

It sounds like the P35 is the one to get from an overclocking point of view.
But which one will fit the Ultra 120 extreme with no mods.
And will I be able to use the stock mobo cooling when overclocking.
 
Last edited:
Any of the new P35 boards or the older P965 Abit AB9 Quad are what you need to be looking at.

Whilst any of the P965 boards should be good for getting a QX6700 to a 340mhz FSB, only the QuadGT and ASUS P5B-Deluxe are pretty much certain to.

The new P35 boards are capable of getting the Quads to near a 500mhz FSB.
 
Thanks Cob. What I wanted to hear.

What P35 would you recommend.
I don't want to mess with the mobo cooling and will be using an Ultra 120 extreme so it's got to fit.

The system spec will be as follows :
Antec P182
Corsair 620W HZ
QX6700
Thermalright Ultra 120 extreme
2gig Crucial Ballistix 6400C4
8800GTX with additional cooling from Scythe Sflex 1200rpm in top HD bay
X-Fi Extreme Gamer
WD Raptor 160gig
Hitachi 1TB
Samsung 16X DVDRW
 
Thanks. That's a good bit cheaper.
I seem to remember reading something about this thing called Crazy Cool on the gigabyte board, which can interfere with some coolers.
 
Thanks lay-z-boy.
Is it good enough with stock mobo cooling to run a quad at 3.6ghz (400x9)

simonnance - when fitting the ultra 120 was it possible to have the long end facing the rear i/o shield, basically exhausting hot air towards the rear 120mm fan in your case ? Any clearance issues. Any problems installing the backplate ?
 
Nice...I assume this board does not have the ability to unlink the cpu fsb speed and the memory speed like on the 680i boards, so I guess something like Crucial DDR2 6400 800mhz ram is more then enough then for the 400mhz I wish to achieve at 4,4,4,12 2.2v or even Crucial 5300. Is there any point at all in the 8500 Crucial given it's dropping in price ? Would I be able to achieve the same 400mhz+ fsb but with tigher timings say 3,4,4,8.

One last thing..would you say this board runs as hot as the 680i boards.
And will an Antec p182 cool it enough...the plan would be to have a fan mounted in the front blowing at the gpu area, 2 fans in top as outtakes cooling cpu, and fan in bottom to cool drives.
 
After owning an evga 680i this is much cooler, evga was still very hot with the fan in place and fresh air directed at it.

No it uses dividers, pair it up with some crucial pc5300 and crank it to ddr 1000+ and you have a winner.
 
Excellent.


last few questions...I promise :)

1. There are 6 sata connectors....4 red ones and 2 black ones...what's the difference. And does this mobo have any issues booting XP OS from a SATA DVDRW and what sata connector is recommended to use (red one or black one )?

2. Will the cooler on a standard 8800gtx block any of these sata ports (I seem to remember the one on the ultra does), and if so does the board come with right angled sata connectors to get around this ?

3. I am not going to be using raid so will I be able to install my OS without needing to install sata drivers from a floppy diskette ? Tell me I won't need to do this hit F8 carp.

4. What are the recommended voltages or voltages which you found worked best at stock and when overclocking a quad core QX6700 to say 3.3-3.4ghz.

thanks
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom