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Greetings everyone,
I'm building a new HD editing (video) workstation. At the moment, the graphics card, hard drives, case and power supply have been purchased thus far. CPU will be purchased as soon as I can find the G0 stepping.
BD-R burner is on hold, awaiting better technical advances in compatibility of the disc burning capabilities.
But my question pertains to zeroing in on the motherboard that works best for this system.
I looked at a bunch of Asus boards, including P5K, Striker Extreme and several others, but a limited number of SATA connections and inability to do RAID with internal drives soured me on those choices. I also need to have IEEE-1394, and a real mouse and keyboard PS/2 port set, as my backup/restore is done with Norton Ghost 2003 and is mouse-driven.
I'm looking at the Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 as a possible choice now, but I haven't heard of anyone overclocking the Q6600 past 2.7GHz with this board. Two reports were in the 2.6-2.7 range. I know the Q6600 has been clocked to 3.7GHz with air cooling, but that was on Asus boards. My reasoning is that if the system is stable at 3.7, then I should be able to just crank the FSB to 1333 and get 3Ghz with a wide safety margin.
This is the system config so far. Graphics, power, case and HDDs already purchased:
COMPONENT QTY
Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 1.00
XFX PVT80GTHF9 GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 1.00
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 1.00
4GB kit (2GBx2), 240-pin DIMM, DDR2 PC2-5300 memory module 1.00
Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD5000YS 500GB 4.00
SILVERSTONE TEMJIN SST-TJ06S-W Silver Aluminum 1.00
Seasonic S12 Energy Plus SS- 650HT Power Supply 1.00
LITE-ON Black Blu-ray Disc Triple DVD Burner 1.00
HP LP3065 30" LCD Display 1.00
Turtle Beach Montego DDL 7.1 Dolby Digital 1.00
I currently run two Gigabyte boards that are 7 years old now in my current NLEs. GA-7DXR+ and they can barely manage a 10% overclock, so I am wondering if this is just a limitation of Gigabyte boards in general, or if the two reviews I read were from people who had bad memory modules or an inadequate power supply?
I'd like to be done purchasing stuff this week, so solving which motherboard to get and whether the Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 will suit me at 3GHz with the Q6600 and a very high end cooler, probably Thermaltake Extreme, in this wind-tunnel-equipped case, is a question I pose to users of this board. There is no system fast enough to render HD video, but any speed increase I can get while remaining in reliable operating zones is highly desired.
I'm building a new HD editing (video) workstation. At the moment, the graphics card, hard drives, case and power supply have been purchased thus far. CPU will be purchased as soon as I can find the G0 stepping.
BD-R burner is on hold, awaiting better technical advances in compatibility of the disc burning capabilities.
But my question pertains to zeroing in on the motherboard that works best for this system.
I looked at a bunch of Asus boards, including P5K, Striker Extreme and several others, but a limited number of SATA connections and inability to do RAID with internal drives soured me on those choices. I also need to have IEEE-1394, and a real mouse and keyboard PS/2 port set, as my backup/restore is done with Norton Ghost 2003 and is mouse-driven.
I'm looking at the Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 as a possible choice now, but I haven't heard of anyone overclocking the Q6600 past 2.7GHz with this board. Two reports were in the 2.6-2.7 range. I know the Q6600 has been clocked to 3.7GHz with air cooling, but that was on Asus boards. My reasoning is that if the system is stable at 3.7, then I should be able to just crank the FSB to 1333 and get 3Ghz with a wide safety margin.
This is the system config so far. Graphics, power, case and HDDs already purchased:
COMPONENT QTY
Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 1.00
XFX PVT80GTHF9 GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 1.00
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 1.00
4GB kit (2GBx2), 240-pin DIMM, DDR2 PC2-5300 memory module 1.00
Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD5000YS 500GB 4.00
SILVERSTONE TEMJIN SST-TJ06S-W Silver Aluminum 1.00
Seasonic S12 Energy Plus SS- 650HT Power Supply 1.00
LITE-ON Black Blu-ray Disc Triple DVD Burner 1.00
HP LP3065 30" LCD Display 1.00
Turtle Beach Montego DDL 7.1 Dolby Digital 1.00
I currently run two Gigabyte boards that are 7 years old now in my current NLEs. GA-7DXR+ and they can barely manage a 10% overclock, so I am wondering if this is just a limitation of Gigabyte boards in general, or if the two reviews I read were from people who had bad memory modules or an inadequate power supply?
I'd like to be done purchasing stuff this week, so solving which motherboard to get and whether the Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 will suit me at 3GHz with the Q6600 and a very high end cooler, probably Thermaltake Extreme, in this wind-tunnel-equipped case, is a question I pose to users of this board. There is no system fast enough to render HD video, but any speed increase I can get while remaining in reliable operating zones is highly desired.
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