Deus Excalibur
03-22-2006, 03:00 PM
I'm assembling a new PC within the next two weeks and I've been thinking of either getting the A8N32 or the Diamond Plus. I've been going back and forth on this for almost a month :(
I have owned both boards in the past, I had the A8N32 first but the warm boot issue just drove me insane so I bought a DP. I gave the A8N32 to my brother in law. Then some company took my PC for testing and in return they are buying me a really kick ass PC.
I'd like to go with the ASUS again because they are *usually* very reliable boards. The issue of heat that comes with sandwiching an X-Fi Elite between two 7900GTXs may present a problem though. I have a Stacker 810 case so there are 3 120mm intake fans and 2 120mm + 1 80mm exhaust fans which may make heat not an issue :D .
I'm no doubt going to OC my FX-60, with my last CPU I really couldn't take it to the limit on either board. Will the 8 phase power really make a difference OC'ing this CPU to maybe 3.0ghz 24/7 stable? I'll be going for the highest possible CPU OC, my memory will probably stay within 210-220mhz so a high HTT doesn't matter to me.
I have owned both boards in the past, I had the A8N32 first but the warm boot issue just drove me insane so I bought a DP. I gave the A8N32 to my brother in law. Then some company took my PC for testing and in return they are buying me a really kick ass PC.
I'd like to go with the ASUS again because they are *usually* very reliable boards. The issue of heat that comes with sandwiching an X-Fi Elite between two 7900GTXs may present a problem though. I have a Stacker 810 case so there are 3 120mm intake fans and 2 120mm + 1 80mm exhaust fans which may make heat not an issue :D .
I'm no doubt going to OC my FX-60, with my last CPU I really couldn't take it to the limit on either board. Will the 8 phase power really make a difference OC'ing this CPU to maybe 3.0ghz 24/7 stable? I'll be going for the highest possible CPU OC, my memory will probably stay within 210-220mhz so a high HTT doesn't matter to me.