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ChAoS Overlord 3rd December 2007 22:47

Getting the very best S775 mainboard
 
As some of you know I'm having a lot of problems with my striker extreme mainboard. That's why I want to exchange it with something else.

I was thinking about the DFI P35-T2R. But I don't want to make a big mistake. Should I hold out for a different board on P35 chipset, or should I look into the X38 - X48 - P45 for the future (or perhaps even the nvidia nforce 780 - although I don't feel like it -)?

I want to run an E6600 with 2 GB OCZ Urban Elite RAM and my old trusty 8800 GTS 640 MB.

piotke 3rd December 2007 23:47

I have nothing but good experience with gigabyte DQ6.

Kougar 4th December 2007 08:43

DQ6 is great, but P35 DQ6 is being replaced with X38 DQ6.

However, there is little reason for a X38, but Gigabyte seems to be pulling out all the stops for X48. I'd either suggest P35 or the X48, and simply skipping X38. Info here http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=315

ChAoS Overlord 4th December 2007 09:17

So you advise me to cope with my current system for the time being?

I would also like to know the following:
I'm running a RAID-0 (stripe) on my main hard disks. Will this new board along with its different (intel) RAID controller be able to read the data created on the nforce 680 RAID controller?

jmke 4th December 2007 10:02

no the RAID 0 array will be lost, so make a backup of all your data

piotke 4th December 2007 11:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kougar (Post 160609)
DQ6 is great, but P35 DQ6 is being replaced with X38 DQ6.

However, there is little reason for a X38, but Gigabyte seems to be pulling out all the stops for X48. I'd either suggest P35 or the X48, and simply skipping X38. Info here http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=315

I was talking about the X38, wich I used for yorkfield testing.

Kougar 4th December 2007 17:51

I have nothing against X38, but P35 version is cheaper if Xfire is not needed, and X48 should slot into the same price point as X38 but with some new tangible improvements and BIOS options for enthusists. Will be the best/last chipset pre-Nehalem when everything changes.

ChAoS Overlord 4th December 2007 20:47

I thought P45 was coming out after X48?

Kougar 4th December 2007 22:23

P35 is the mainstream chipset, X38 the enthusiast. P45 will be the next mainstream chipset, with X48 the next enthusiast chipset. P45/X48 launch together 2Q'08.

ChAoS Overlord 5th December 2007 00:18

From what I heard X48 should be among us by the january/february timeframe, whereas P45 eaglelake should be released by april?

Lino 5th December 2007 12:51

I've a Gigabyte P35 DQ6 and I'm very happy with it.

X38 boards not yet mature, I'd stay with p35 at the moment

maher 15th December 2007 18:04

Both boards are excellent. X38-DQ6 is better solution for future because PCl2.0, DDR3..., but you won't miss with P35-DQ6 which is cheaper.

ChAoS Overlord 24th December 2007 12:49

I have exchanged the mainboard for the X38-DQ6, I was getting really tired of the striker extreme problems.

Liquid3D 25th December 2007 04:08

Good choice some have got this board to 550MHz some cannot get past 425MHz I think it depends on many things. I know you need to get air flow over its extensive heat-pipe system because these new chipsets seem to be running hot.

This site was dissapointed they only attained 517FSB

slvrl7 25th December 2007 10:04

mmm how about s755 micro atx mainboard?

Kougar 26th December 2007 04:18

I think it is rather silly to be disappointed at 517FSB. Most CPU's never make it that high before running out of steam, and you lose performance by dropping the CPU multipler and raising the FSB to compensate. After looking over their review, I would suspect their choice of RAM, specifically the RAM frequency and the memory ratio used for it.

P35-DQ6 Rev 1 got a E6300 7 x 542FSB 24 hour prime stable. Q6600 will do 9 x 400FSB, but in both cases are the absolute limits of the CPU... With the Q6600 it boots at 3.7Ghz or 4.2Ghz but only two of the four cores work, loading the two bad cores results in a instant hard reboot.

Slvrl7, the only mATX Intel boards seem to be those with integrated graphics, like G33.


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