scottc19
05-22-2008, 08:50 PM
I am looking for a cheap board (been looking at the p35) to upgrade to overclock my q6600 better than my eva 680i sli. I hand picked the q6600 and pushed it to 3.8ghz on the 680, but it ended up being not too stable. I'm pretty sure a lot of this was fromt he motherboard side as there were quite a few fsb holes...
In my research so far I found that gigabyte p35 boards on ebay are abundant and cheap.
Do you guys think I should get one of these, or wait and save up my cash and get a nice dfi p35 board.
Will use ddr2, max overclock may be around 1200, mostly interested in OCing the processor tho.
I found a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R revision 1.1 thats coming up on ebay for cheap(I couldnt remember if I am allowed to put the link in here, but it ends in 3 hours), but have heard mixed things about the C version with accepting both ddr3 and ddr2 and not allowing many memory settings. Is this true?
Also is getting 2.1 revision very important to 1.1, I couldnt find what they changed exactly, but found something about a power change, which got me scared... as I am pretty sure OCing a quad is very dependent on the power phases...
Thanks....
In my research so far I found that gigabyte p35 boards on ebay are abundant and cheap.
Do you guys think I should get one of these, or wait and save up my cash and get a nice dfi p35 board.
Will use ddr2, max overclock may be around 1200, mostly interested in OCing the processor tho.
I found a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R revision 1.1 thats coming up on ebay for cheap(I couldnt remember if I am allowed to put the link in here, but it ends in 3 hours), but have heard mixed things about the C version with accepting both ddr3 and ddr2 and not allowing many memory settings. Is this true?
Also is getting 2.1 revision very important to 1.1, I couldnt find what they changed exactly, but found something about a power change, which got me scared... as I am pretty sure OCing a quad is very dependent on the power phases...
Thanks....