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minjitsu   10-15-2008 at 05:54:58 PM

I wanna upgrade from my p4 3.4ghz to a q6600.

i have an 8800gt and i think my p4 is seriously bottlenecking it.

so it has been decided that im going to get a q6600.

My current mobo is an asus p5da2-e and doesn't support core 2 duo or quads (if i remember correctly).

i know this has probably been asked alot, but please help me find a mobo that will suit my needs! I wanna build a decent gaming rig that isn't too expensive, i have around $350 to spend minus the cpu would probably leave me around $150

ive been looking at the GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L is that any good?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128337


Message edited by minjitsu on 10-15-2008 at 05:55:46 PM
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Stupido   10-15-2008 at 06:27:23 PM
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I have Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R with Q6600 and 4GB (4x1GB) of DDR2@1066 and I'm quite happy with the setup... :sol:

Playing smoothly Crysis @ high settings on GTX280 @ 24'' monitor... :bounce: Though I'm considering to go multi-GPU (didn't decided yet on CF or SLI)

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aevm   10-15-2008 at 06:37:00 PM
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I suggest the eVGA 750i FTW.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] VGA%20750i

It's $150+10 shipping. Compared to the GA-EP35-DS3L, it costs $66 more, but you get the ability to add a second 8800GT later and get a really kick-a$$ gaming box. You also get RAID, FireWire and PCI-E 2.0.

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aevm   10-15-2008 at 06:42:20 PM
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Stupido wrote :

I have Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R with Q6600 and 4GB (4x1GB) of DDR2@1066 and I'm quite happy with the setup... :sol:

Playing smoothly Crysis @ high settings on GTX280 @ 24'' monitor... :bounce: Though I'm considering to go multi-GPU (didn't decided yet on CF or SLI)



Yeah but you got a GTX 280. That's about twice the power of my 8800GTX or his 8800GT. You can't do multi-GPU with your Crossfire motherboard + nVidia card, but don't really need it IMO. He on the other hand could definitely use a second 8800GT.

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Stupido   10-15-2008 at 09:53:10 PM
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I know that I can't do CF with nVidia card ;)
Because of that I consider changing the motherboard... Just if in the future I decide to go multi-GPU.
From one side could be interesting as upgrade (after the next GPU is relesed, this GTX will drop price) but than, I'm not really in favor of multi-GPU due to heat, noise, power requirements - all this especially valid for GTX280 and Radeon 4870x2...

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ajcroteau   10-15-2008 at 10:16:50 PM
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I guess it's all about what your looking to do...

Are you looking to OC the Q6600?

Do you want to purchase a second 8800GT and run them SLI?

AJ

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aevm   10-15-2008 at 10:28:01 PM
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Stupido wrote :

I know that I can't do CF with nVidia card ;)
Because of that I consider changing the motherboard... Just if in the future I decide to go multi-GPU.
From one side could be interesting as upgrade (after the next GPU is relesed, this GTX will drop price) but than, I'm not really in favor of multi-GPU due to heat, noise, power requirements - all this especially valid for GTX280 and Radeon 4870x2...



Yeah, and HD 4870X2 Crossfire is a waste anyway because games are not scaling so well for 4 GPUs (except CoD4, from what I've seen).

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Stupido   10-16-2008 at 11:18:10 AM
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Indeed... But what about future? ;) maybe game developers will start taking into consideration the GPU scaling as multi-core CPUs?

I think having steady trend in multi-GPU gfx card we could some attention from game developers to support those setups?

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aevm   10-16-2008 at 04:06:22 PM
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True. I'm sure they'll try. Hopefully Microsoft can do something in DirectX 11 to make it easier for them.

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Stupido   10-17-2008 at 04:53:00 PM
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Any news/info on that?

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aevm   10-17-2008 at 05:04:06 PM
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Nothing much yet. Here's a good article, but it doesn't answer all the questions.

http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2008/ [...] s-coming/1

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Stupido   10-18-2008 at 01:25:21 PM
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Thanks for the link... Indeed an interesting :)

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