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Their good boards, but there are better boards available. If you have the funds for one a Asus P5Q series would be a better choice, newer chipset, PCI-E 2.0, official 1600FSB+ support, plenty of BIOS options, etc. Gigabytes P45 offerings are also pretty good. Probably the biggest difference between the Asus and Gigabyte offerings is the BIOS, asus use AMI where Gigabyte use AWARD.
 
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Bit off topic but I've heard FSB 1600 support on motherboards but what CPUs run at 400FSB by default? The Wolfdale/Yorkdales are all 1333FSB and I didn't think Intel were gonna even realease 1600FSb chips :confused:
 

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Bit off topic but I've heard FSB 1600 support on motherboards but what CPUs run at 400FSB by default? The Wolfdale/Yorkdales are all 1333FSB and I didn't think Intel were gonna even realease 1600FSb chips :confused:

They aren't lol The E8600 and Q9400 are the LAST 775 chips released. 1600FSB is just a confirmation that the board can run 400fsb(and a way for noobs to go "WHOA 1600 THATS HIGHER THAN 1333!"
 

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Yup, 1600FSB is basically a manufacturer saying "we guarantee this board has headroom"
 
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Yup, 1600FSB is basically a manufacturer saying "we guarantee this board has headroom"

Not exactly ;) Xeon X5272 :toast::cool:

Also the QX9770 did have a 1600fsb when it was still ES, but I see now its back down to 1333, maybe due to stability? who knows
 

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I got to 3.6Stable with my new cooling. and im working on going higher. 450x8. will post back with more in a few days
 

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cheers haha - can i ask, what does "p35 chipset" actually mean? im used to nvidia boards :D

P35 is a chipset made by Intel. it has a 1333mhz bus speed supports 45nm dual and quad also uses DDR2 800. I would say it is comparable to a Nvidia 680i or 780i but WITHOUT THE SLI SUPPORT! the P35 may clock alittle better too.
hope you found this info helpful
 
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P35 is a chipset made by Intel. it has a 1333mhz bus speed supports 45nm dual and quad also uses DDR2 800. I would say it is comparable to a Nvidia 680i or 780i but WITHOUT THE SLI SUPPORT! the P35 may clock alittle better too.
hope you found this info helpful

i did, completely what i needed - in a nutshell. The blood iron is what im getting anyway, probably ordering next week or the week after in celebration of my GCSE results :D
 

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i did, completely what i needed - in a nutshell. The blood iron is what im getting anyway, probably ordering next week or the week after in celebration of my GCSE results :D

Do you know what the VID is on your Q6600? Also what kind of Aftermarket Cooling are you looking at? Quads put out a lot of heat.
 
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Do you know what the VID is on your Q6600? Also what kind of Aftermarket Cooling are you looking at? Quads put out a lot of heat.

the VID?

Oh, and ill purchase another Freezer Pro. Might have to ask ket to lap it for me :D
 

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When did you buy your Q6600, around like what month. You'll have to tell me how the Freezer pro stacks up on cooling against my S1284.

Lapping it should be easy tho.
 
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i havent bought it yet, it will get purchased in a weeks time though :D :D :D i cant wait :laugh:
 

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Glad I caught you before you purchased.

As a Blood Iron Owner I want to let you lknow you can do MUCH MUCH better than that.

I was Folding with a B3 Q6600 on mine and was not at all imnpressed. The board cannot provide the clean voltage that a quad needs for a good OC. Maybe with a G0 you might get bnetter results than I did. A lot of issues rebooting too. The board loved to play dead for no discernable reason. Considering how much you will reboot when OCing or trying for a max stable OC under load it is really a PITA. I tried different RAM and that was not it. It worked much better with my E6600 than my Q6600 but still would play dead sometimes.

Unless you need a mATX formfactor with onboard true HDMI I would go with the Asus P45 boards.

I've got great love for the DFI mark...but the highly touted Blood Iron is not an OC-friendly board.

Yes I know a few people have reported high FSB clocks and so on but these appear to be the exception...not the rule.

The very same Q6600 G0 I could not clock past 3 ghz on the Blood Iron reliably would run 3.6 on my P5K dlx Folding at 100% load.

This is from direct experience.

Hope that helps.
 
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Glad I caught you before you purchased.

As a Blood Iron Owner I want to let you lknow you can do MUCH MUCH better than that.

I was Folding with a B3 Q6600 on mine and was not at all imnpressed. The board cannot provide the clean voltage that a quad needs for a good OC. Maybe with a G0 you might get bnetter results than I did. A lot of issues rebooting too. The board loved to play dead for no discernable reason. Considering how much you will reboot when OCing or trying for a max stable OC under load it is really a PITA. I tried different RAM and that was not it. It worked much better with my E6600 than my Q6600 but still would play dead sometimes.

Unless you need a mATX formfactor with onboard true HDMI I would go with the Asus P45 boards.

I've got great love for the DFI mark...but the highly touted Blood Iron is not an OC-friendly board.

Yes I know a few people have reported high FSB clocks and so on but these appear to be the exception...not the rule.

The very same Q6600 G0 I could not clock past 3 ghz on the Blood Iron reliably would run 3.6 on my P5K dlx Folding at 100% load.

This is from direct experience.

Hope that helps.

cheers for the heads up. I was going to have a look for an ASUS board, but didnt know what to look for.

Can you drop me a few links to some boards you suggest?

Cheers mate!
 

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Referring to one of your earlier posts, I actually have an ASUS P5E and I love it. Thats with an X38 chipset, and probably much more useful if you plan to Crossfire and want a full-featured mobo. Sure P35's and some P45's overclock higher, but you will not get the same feature set. As far as FSB, I couldn't get higher than 450 with my Q9450, but with a Q6600, your CPU will probably overheat after 450X9 unless you use watercooling. If you have a big budget though go for the ASUS P5E. That's my two cents.
 

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Glad I caught you before you purchased.

As a Blood Iron Owner I want to let you lknow you can do MUCH MUCH better than that.

I was Folding with a B3 Q6600 on mine and was not at all imnpressed. The board cannot provide the clean voltage that a quad needs for a good OC. Maybe with a G0 you might get bnetter results than I did. A lot of issues rebooting too. The board loved to play dead for no discernable reason. Considering how much you will reboot when OCing or trying for a max stable OC under load it is really a PITA. I tried different RAM and that was not it. It worked much better with my E6600 than my Q6600 but still would play dead sometimes.

Unless you need a mATX formfactor with onboard true HDMI I would go with the Asus P45 boards.

I've got great love for the DFI mark...but the highly touted Blood Iron is not an OC-friendly board.

Yes I know a few people have reported high FSB clocks and so on but these appear to be the exception...not the rule.

The very same Q6600 G0 I could not clock past 3 ghz on the Blood Iron reliably would run 3.6 on my P5K dlx Folding at 100% load.

This is from direct experience.

Hope that helps.

what revision Q6600 did you have, you have both the b3 and g0 listed, its confiusing. Also the T2rl fixed the voltage issues, my G0 is running fine at 3.6, and currently im testing 460x8fsb, which is pushing the heat IMO, but if you have one of the older Q6600's from novemeber of 07 it is rock solid, Heat issues can be solved with a good cooler, my Quad is lapped, and i also lapped my S1284 even before i put it on the cpu, Also i used the back brace for the heat sink. in my room under 100% load my cores just touch 60c. IMO 9x450 would be suicide on air anyways, and if you wanted to push that then you would need water cooling reguardless.

im not trying to flame, im just trying to figure out
 

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I'll vouch for the DFI DK P35-T2RS. I've got one and it overclocks very well. It's only ~$20 more than the BloodIron, and worth it IMHO. I've got my Q9450 oc'd to 3.2ghz on stock volts, but it can go much higher with a little boost here and there.

Very stable, lots of options in the BIOS, well planned layout, and it looks really nice in a window case.

I have heard mostly good things about the BloodIron, but I don't have one so I can't comment myself.
 
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I might have to splash out on something nice, that lanparty looks gorgeous.
 

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yea the blood iron board has a ton of BIOS options, the BIOS IMO is very mature and stable. Im still learning how to overlcock my q6600 on the Blood Iron, If you need help SneekyPeet knows alot about blood irons. I have fund out that the blood iron has alot of small changes in bios that can help stabalise the rig, and i think that the BI can man handle the 680i boards i used to use.

I would second what Wayward says and check that board out.
 

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The Blood Iron does have a lot of great BIOS options to be sure. But I found that the LanParty (P35) was better for me. Pushed the same G0 Q6600 to 4 ghz (I have the screenshot). My guess is the Dark is as good.
 
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I don't know anything but I would hold out for a pcie 2.0 board p45, x38 or x48, get more bandwidth usage out of your video card I have seen increase in performance with my card going from p35 to x48
 

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I put together an Asus P5Q a few weeks ago with an E6700 and without changing anything except the bus speed got 3.9 ghz. The auto settings work very well on this board. Besides the usual tweaks it adds GTL values which can help fine tuniing.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131299

Not a flashy board...but very solid.
 
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