** Official ** Gigabyte UD3 P45 Series -- EP45-UD3 / EP45-UD3R / EP45-UD3P

[Sparda]

Hey folks. Not a ton of overclocking experience here but I am familiar with the process. I am upgrading my core components on a budget of roughly $500 and the UD3P seems to be a solid starting point. From what i have read the Q6600 looks like my processor because of price, overclockability and the fact that I multitask like a fiend. I will be using air cooling- probably the freezer 7, unless someone has a better recommendation. Regarding memory... I don't see alot of consensus when it comes to ram speeds and brands etc. Could someone knowledgeable give me a shove in the right direction and some solid reasoning/numbers behind it? I would soo appreciate it. Also if anyone has any benchmarks or settings they would like to share (with the same components) I would love you long time.

Welcome m8.
The board can also handle 65nm quad easily. It just the matter of finding a good cpu or an alternative: a pretested cpu.
It better if you can go 45nm quad since it run cooler and better than q6600.
Cooling you cant go wrong with TRUE , OCZ vandetta or Xigmatek.
If you going 4gig RAM go for 4gb ddr1000 or ddr1066 corsair or g.skill. But seems like any 4gb with powerchip doing fine on this board.
My Q6600 capped around 3.90-3.96 stable but I push it a little bit. Sry a little bit blurry when I resizing it.
500x8 and 515x7

EDIT2: is this set of temperature not too high ? the chipset took 97°c (206F°) while the CPU dealed with 89°c (92F°)

pierrandre nice clock but it very hot man. I hope you didnt cook anything.
Did you put any fans on the NB because it reaching 97°c? You can boil some eggs.
Linpack is brutal with quad especially if you clock it high and pumping some vcore.