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as a fellow Q6600 owener i can deffinbately tell you that the Blood Iron board will serve you well. I have booted to 3.6Ghz stable (8x450), unfortunetely my aftermarket cooling couldn't keep up, but come monday that will all change. I currently am stable with 3.5GHz (8x440) with 1.45 on the nb and 1.3xv on the vcore. I have owened nforce motherboards in the past, and i will say that the Blood iron board has outdone my nforce mobos by a whole shot. I have overcocked the PCI bus for my 8800 GT graphics card to over 115, i also have pushed my Crucial Ballistix DDR@ 800 to over 1100MHz on 2.2v, i culd do that with my nforce mobos for the life of god.

If you want i can post more information as i push my cpu and ram when i get my new heat sink in place for my cpu. Those quads do pump out the heat.

I have a friend sal, i set his computer up, its a Blood Iron boardd as well on a E6850, he is 3.4Ghz on all stock volts. When he gets my old heat sink i'll push that rig farther.
 
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as a fellow Q6600 owener i can deffinbately tell you that the Blood Iron board will serve you well. I have booted to 3.6Ghz stable (8x450), unfortunetely my aftermarket cooling couldn't keep up, but come monday that will all change. I currently am stable with 3.5GHz (8x440) with 1.45 on the nb and 1.3xv on the vcore. I have owened nforce motherboards in the past, and i will say that the Blood iron board has outdone my nforce mobos by a whole shot. I have overcocked the PCI bus for my 8800 GT graphics card to over 115, i also have pushed my Crucial Ballistix DDR@ 800 to over 1100MHz on 2.2v, i culd do that with my nforce mobos for the life of god.

If you want i can post more information as i push my cpu and ram when i get my new heat sink in place for my cpu. Those quads do pump out the heat.

I have a friend sal, i set his computer up, its a Blood Iron boardd as well on a E6850, he is 3.4Ghz on all stock volts. When he gets my old heat sink i'll push that rig farther.

this is the sort of info i need - they do sound good. The extra info would be spot on cheers!
 
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Might i add im sorry that i havent been able to keep up with the thread, i posted it late last night and have been at work this morning.

So basically you guys are split - im getting raving reviews on the BI from one side, others suggest a P45 board would be better. I have never used an intel motherboard or processor before, so overclocking one will be a massive learning curve, and i will be going into it based on knowledge scouted from you lot.

I had origanally said to myself that if i got a Q6600 my hopes for overclokcing would be around the 3.5Ghz mark, purely because my 5000+ BE will happily chug along at 3Ghz, but its gaming and multitasking im struggling with, so the extra 400Mhz on single and double thread apps would be a boost anyway.

i can get the Blood Iron for about £65, which is brilliant really.

If anyone else has any other suggestins, please share them!
 
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Just to confuse you further :p Here's another great budget overclocking board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140205

Can easily achive well over 500FSB and has better cooling IMO than the blood iron (which was my first choice, but I couldn't find one for love nor money a few months back).

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=161618

In depth review of it there, but I think as others have said maybe a P45 would be the way to go with them being FSB beasts and PCI-E 2.0 and xfire capable.

Just my two pence :D
 
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Looks like a nice board, cheers oli - anyone have any opinions on that board?
 

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the one thing you will learn about quads is they don't hold a high fsb well. i have heard that most quads don't have a fsb higher than 475, but then again i haven't been able to get that high yet due to temps. (will tell you more after monday when i get my cooler)

I have heard about a guy who had a Q6700 who has like 550FSB but i can't rememebr his name, butit was on a Blood iron Board tho.
 
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the one thing you will learn about quads is they don't hold a high fsb well. i have heard that most quads don't have a fsb higher than 475, but then again i haven't been able to get that high yet due to temps. (will tell you more after monday when i get my cooler)

I have heard about a guy who had a Q6700 who has like 550FSB but i can't rememebr his name, butit was on a Blood iron Board tho.

The person you may be referring to is ColdStorm, and I believe that has been mentioned. But yes quad's don't seem to be able to do as high FSB as dualies.
 

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Weird that people still suggest P35. Especially when P45 are already in the state where they have a mature BIOS and are basically all cleaned up.

does Budwieser not still have a beer wagon pulled by Clydesdales?

Why fix it if the old horse can do a great job?

Try owning one, you will soon see why they are so raved/loved by their owners!
 

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i deleted the post because i was reffering to oli'e post but he cleared it up at the end sorry about that
 

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i deleted the post because i was reffering to oli'e post but he cleared it up at the end sorry about that

I wasnt trashing you on it, just trying to give you some prespective. As a P35 owner(X2) I love them and advise everyone to try one. As you sift thro this tread , you can see our better clockers, who have purchased the newer tech, even recommending the P35 due to its simplisity and easy of parts to be used.
 

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does Budwieser not still have a beer wagon pulled by Clydesdales?

Why fix it if the old horse can do a great job?

Try owning one, you will soon see why they are so raved/loved by their owners!

They are pretty dam great, but they cant last forever.
I was thinking about buying one myself until i read up on the P45 chipset.
Cant wait till i buy my Biostar 700FSB :rockout:

EDIT: to be honest the DFI BloorIron was my first choice at the time :)
 

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They are pretty dam great, but they cant last forever.
I was thinking about buying one myself until i read up on the P45 chipset.
Cant wait till i buy my Biostar 700FSB :rockout:

EDIT: to be honest the DFI BloorIron was my first choice at the time :)

IMHO with Nahalem around the corner. it really doesnt make alot of sence to spend a ton on a 775 mobo. As soon as that hits, the prices of the 775 stuff should fall thro the floor!
 

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ehh i thought about Nahalem as well but i think its going to be really expensive to buy a new motherboard a new CPU, possibly ram??? Just the cpu would probably be expensive
its not to bad i have spare parts from my other rig i can use, i just need the mobo, cpu, and cpu cooler (Xigmatek)
 
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can i also ask, when it comes to buying my Q6600, which one should i go for? ive noticed about 4 different "models" - which one overclocks the best?
 
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The G0 revisions are generally the best, but newer ones are not quite as good as the older ones, not to say that you won't be able to overclock it. So suffice to say trying to find a good used one will probably net you your best overclock.
 

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can i also ask, when it comes to buying my Q6600, which one should i go for? ive noticed about 4 different "models" - which one overclocks the best?

used ones...I hear the newer batches of Q6600 dont get much past the 3.5-3.6GHz mark!

The older Q6600 g0's seem to be the best clockers!
 
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ah ok. So my WTB thread was a good idea then :laugh: besides the fact used Q6600's here in the UK are as rare as rocking-horse shit.
 

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i believe rocking horse shit is rare everywhere :cool:
 
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to back up my claim, a Q6600 from Julys batch went for £97 inc. delivery on fleabay today. Brand new ones are a shade over £110.
 

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Looks like a nice board, cheers oli - anyone have any opinions on that board?

Tom`s hardware recomended P35 NEO2-FR = P35 PLATINUM - platinum packing
 
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to back up my claim, a Q6600 from Julys batch went for £97 inc. delivery on fleabay today. Brand new ones are a shade over £110.

Really, it's all down to the luck of the draw unless you are buying a chip with an advertised VID or if it's been tested already.
 

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to bad you live in the UK i think at Clubit.com they have a guaranteed G0 Q6600 deal
 
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