Motherboard for Quad 6600
Well I have managed to come up with the money for a new system - a miracle
...anyway, I was wondering which of these motherboards are better in the long run...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131189
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131153
I have decided to go quad instead of building a farm out of my outdated hardware for fold@home.
And I have also been looking at this -hard drive WD 250 GB (7200rpm 16 mb cache) (WD2500AAKS)(X1)
...anyway, I was wondering which of these motherboards are better in the long run...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131189
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131153
I have decided to go quad instead of building a farm out of my outdated hardware for fold@home.
And I have also been looking at this -hard drive WD 250 GB (7200rpm 16 mb cache) (WD2500AAKS)(X1)
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In regards to the harddrive you listed, the 'AAKS' series drives from WD are very fast. I have a WD3200AAKS and it does about 100MB/s on the top end. Very nice drives indeed.
Thanks for the info on the P5K-E and the hard drive ... it was the best I could find for the price. And I am most assuredly going to overclock the "hell" out of the 6600
Hey ! I appreciate the info and will be waiting ; granted you can find out about the 3rd party cooler - double thanks:D
P5K-E is your board then It has a vcore 'voltage damper' that works quite well keep 'vdroop' at bay. I didn't get more than 0.01-0.02V of droop with the P5K-E. Very good power regulation as well :thumbup
Thanks ... any opinions pro or con on the specific motherboards .. I chose Asus based from budget? Though I might be able to raise slightly more in a month's time, give or take.
600 hundred Psu should cover me then? Or should I wait and gather the rest of the money and spring for the 800+ range. The mother boards I mentioned I believe are rated for 400+ but I was leaning more to going for at least the 600 Psu.
All depends on what kind of graphics setup you plan to use. I have a Corsair VX550 (41A +12V rail) and it does just fine with a single 8800GTS and a highly overclocked Q6600. Planning to run SLI/crossfire? If not, The Corsair HX620 is an awesome PSU for the coin. I doubt you'd need to go into the 800W range unless it is something from a less reputable manufacturer. Check out something in the ~550-650W range from Seasonic, Silverstone, Corsair (VX550 or HX620) or PC Power and Cooling (The Silencer 610 is actually the same PSU internally as the Corsair HX620).