Q6600 OC
airbornflght
Houston, TX Icrontian
Ok.
Fixing to order my new computer and I am all but dead set on the Q6600, but I need a little guidance on the motherboard. I already have the thermalright SI-128 SE cooler. So I'm only missing one piece of the puzzle. I'm looking to get oc'd as much as possible but stability is the biggest issue second to cost. I don't really have a budget set in stone, but lets just keep it around $110-$120 give or take.
Fixing to order my new computer and I am all but dead set on the Q6600, but I need a little guidance on the motherboard. I already have the thermalright SI-128 SE cooler. So I'm only missing one piece of the puzzle. I'm looking to get oc'd as much as possible but stability is the biggest issue second to cost. I don't really have a budget set in stone, but lets just keep it around $110-$120 give or take.
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what do you mean by "don't need anything else"? Is there some secret purpose of motherboards that I don't know about?
The point being made about the IP35-E is that it does not have raid and second PCI-3 video card slot. The MOSFET, northbridge, and southbridge heatsinks aren't copper, but mere aluminum.
Right now, the most popular lower cost Socket 775 boards for overclocking Q6600s are the Asus P5K/E, Gigabyte P35-DS3, and Abit IP35/Pro/-E. BTW, there's quite a price spread among those boards. In all the fairness, the Abit IP35-E does have some quirks, but are mostly solved with a BIOS update.
Maybe it's a moot point now. I just looked at Newegg (was going to comment at how affordable the IP35-E is) and did not find the board. They have the IP35-V now, but I don't know enough about it to comment. Amen
For something cheap with no frills the Abit will do. I didn't mean top end OC, I meant cheaply OC with other mid range parts and not bleeding edge, bend over and open your wallet OC.
The BloodIron is $108. I wasn't suggesting spending a fortune.
I got the P35 DS3L up and running this afternoon on the Seti rig. I presently just have it set at 320 X 10, looking for this Allendale's max sweet spot and I think that 3200 MHz will be close to it's highest sweet spot. To go from 3100 to 3200 I had to jack the vcore up from 1.35 to 1.39 v loaded. The board had quite a bit of vdroop as I have it set in bios to 1.4375 vcore for it to settle at 1.39 v. Other than that, the DS3L looks to be a decent board for a cheap, overclockable board so far. I will be trying to lower the multi and up the fsb speed later on but I imagine that I will have to do a 1066 padmod to the proc in order to overclock the fsb high with this E4400 (like all the other 200 fsb C2D's I know of).