Need some advice

Vintage86Vintage86
edited March 2008 in Hardware
What's up guys

I'm considering motherboards right now for my new rig. The CPU I'm getting is the Q6600 and I'm planning to over clock it but not to the extreme, 3.2ghz would be fine. Got any suggestions? I also want pci-e 2.0 support on the mobo or should i forget about that for now?

MSI IP35-E vs Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L

Comments

  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited March 2008
    I'd go with the Gigabyte. Their P35 chipset boards are so smooth. They are good overclockers as well. BTW, given decent CPU cooling, 3.2GHz is a piece of cake on with the newer (G0 stepping) Q6600s. I'm pretty sure the GA-P35-DS3L is PCI-e 2.0.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited March 2008
    The Asus P5K-E is an excellent board for the money as well. Great quad overclocker. The vdroop damper is very functional on it and it has great power regulation (almost the same as the P5K Deluxe).

    You can't go wrong with Gigabytes offerings also, as Leo mentioned.
  • Vintage86Vintage86
    edited March 2008
    Hmm.. After some thinking I'm going with the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L and wait until PCI-e 2.0 becomes the standard.
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