Which motherboard?

[vaanish]

Hi all. First post!

Anyway, I have got an E6300 and X1950PRO on the cheap, and I have decided to make a build, designed for overclocking (3.2GHz would be enough for me), and gaming. I have chosen boards with two PCI-E slots, because I plan to go down the crossfire route later on. So, with overclocking in mind, which of these do you think I should choose:

DFI Infinity 975X
OR-
DFI LanParty UT ICFX3200T2R

Or, on sceond thoughts, do you think that I should just forget Crossfire, and go with the DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL motherboard?

The Blood iron is £10 more expensive than the DFI LanParty UT ICFX3200T2R, which is in turn £10 more than the DFI Infinity 975X.

Thanks for your feedback!!!

[jimmyz]

the infinity would probably give the best and most reliable performance of the boards mentioned. the 975 chipset is much tighter than the others and performs better for 3-d apps. second choice would be the blood iron.

Almost forgot. Welcome to Xtremesystems.:welcome:

[vaanish]

Wow, thinks for quick feedback.

I have heard bad things about 975X OCing ability. Do you think that it will struggle to get a E6300 @ 3.2, or will the newer bios revisions have fixed that?


Almost forgot. Welcome to Xtremesystems.:welcome:

Thanks!

[jimmyz]

You would need to hit 450 fsb for 3.15 ghz so the infinity should do fine. it's not a huge oc board but it can do 450 ok. the blood-iron would hit 450 easier but you sacrafice a little (very little) performance on a clock per clock basis.
all the boards you are looking at are decent boards and will be almost identical in performance. except the icfx 3200t2r it has some issues with the n/b cooling and many users have had an unrecoverable c-1 code from them i own one myself and it has been great for me but based on all the issues others are having i would avoid recommending it to anyone except xtreme tweakers.

[vaanish]

Thanks for the help

Infinity it is!

EDIT: Do you think that the PCI-E 4X bandwith offered by the second slot in with the P35 boards when in Crossfire would be a bottleneck for the X1950PRO? As I am now considering the MSI P35 Plat.