Going to Intel... bye bye amd

[emersonsc]

So after being a fan of AMD for years now, I've had enough. I'm physicaly and emotionaly drained. Let down after let down. My latest "investments" in AMD were the 9850 and 940. Both duds. terribly. How ever, sadly, i was able to get more out of that 9850 (a 700mhz OC) than the junk 940 (400mhz).



I do own two 4850s. While yes technically they are AMD, i don't think that. They are ATI. AMD cant do anything good on their own so they had to buy out a company that could.

So to my point. I'm going Intel, something i should have done a long time ago. I selling off my system and going with a core i7 920. My question now is what is a good solid mobo that is proven and can OC very well. I have an H2O set up, so I can keep the temps down.

These are the ones i was looking into, what are your opinions?

EVGA 132-BL-E758-A1
DFI LP UT X58-T3eH8
Foxconn BloodRage having a hard time finding in stock places
XFX MBX58ICH19
GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5

[hairy]

DFI or gigabyte IMO. But foxconn is also held in high regard by others.

[scaramonga]

None.

ASUS

[jenner]

Go for DFI, nothing else man
Loved my LT X48 T2R, actually prefered it above my blackops

[CmB]

Go for DFI, nothing else man
Loved my LT X48 T2R, actually prefered it above my blackops

I must say i am enjoying my DFI X58, though you should check out EVGA in this thread Click it, you know you want to Wow!

[emersonsc]

i'd go ASUS but they gave me a bad tast in my mouth with the board i currently am running. its already been replaced once.


How hard is it to make a Phase change? If i were to buy one, would the tubing reach from the bottonm of my NZXT to the cpu which is located near top of the case?

[highoctane]

My vote at this point would be with the Asus P6T Deluxe, I love mine. To my surprise with everything on Auto the board clocked to a stable 200x20 with HT on with my 920.

[hairy]

i just went through all 14 pages of that OC by batch # thread and that indeed is a nice result, 4 GHz with HT and no fuss. so many people wish to disable HT for the sake of higher clocks and i just don't understand it. what voltage are you running?

[GAR]

Go with the Asus P6T deluxe, or Gigabyte X58-UD5

[highoctane]

i just went through all 14 pages of that OC by batch # thread and that indeed is a nice result, 4 GHz with HT and no fuss. so many people wish to disable HT for the sake of higher clocks and i just don't understand it. what voltage are you running?

1.425 set in the bios, auto had actually set it one notch higher. Asus had to spend a little time with their auto settings to get it nailed down or I have the same cpu they used for testing.

This is my 2nd i7 rig, my first one was a MSI board but the 920 used would only run 3.8ghz with HT enabled 4ghz HT off at higher vcore than my current 920.

[REBEL900]

emersonsc i just built my first Intel this week from many years with AMD..

I got core i7 920, DFI-X58 and the corsair 6GB DDR3 1600 8 8 8 24 mem to compliment it. Cpu water cooled with the swift tech apogee GT.. I couldn't be happier now that i'm inching towards 4GHZ..

[emersonsc]

how did you get the apogee GT to fit the core i7 socket? i have the same block but i thought DFI didnt have the 775 mounts on it

[dany74q]

The Gigabyte is a nice motherboard,You get a water cooling block for the chipset with it.
Personally,I`d rather the P6T deluxe/Rampage 2 Extreme,I think they`r a better choice.

[scaramonga]

i just went through all 14 pages of that OC by batch # thread and that indeed is a nice result, 4 GHz with HT and no fuss. so many people wish to disable HT for the sake of higher clocks and i just don't understand it. what voltage are you running?

HT is a pile of 'tosh' and not worth bothering about, today anyway

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=216759

[emersonsc]

The Gigabyte is a nice motherboard,You get a water cooling block for the chipset with it.
Personally,I`d rather the P6T deluxe/Rampage 2 Extreme,I think they`r a better choice.

What gigabyte board?

And i hear the Rampage 2 board is very buggy. I dont need that in my life right now haha not after what i went through with my two junk-o AMD boards and cpus

[hairy]

HT is a pile of 'tosh' and not worth bothering about, today anyway

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=216759

i think for most users the question of threading boils down to games versus media encoding. 99% of the time what are you going to use? H.264/x264. there are very tangible gains here with HT and as videos scale beyond 1080p, hyperthreading is really nothing to sneeze at. There were still 10-20% gains in the rendering tests as well and it is the software's job to improve there - not the hardware.

if your system doesn't have any parallel work on its daily regimen you really have no business with bloomfield and should be clocking with the E0 yorkfields anyway. the end result for that purpose would be better, particularly games. it should be perfectly clear to everyone by now that games rely on shading power and prefer fewer higher-freq threads on the CPU. parallelizing a big CPU will not change that; that is a move intel made for the float intensive SIMD stuff.

I'm sure we can agree that intel is a little ahead of its time with HT and for that reason they should've given us programs for *nix and win32 and win64 that allow us to enable/disable HT on the fly and sleep cores dynamically or by hand. but it is not worthless. if you are a hardcore gamer and you want to flame the architecture because a E8600 clocks higher and gets more 3Dmarks, i just don't follow.

[REBEL900]

how did you get the apogee GT to fit the core i7 socket? i have the same block but i thought DFI didnt have the 775 mounts on it

Sorry it's the GTZ with the 1366 back plate

[swale]

I have not ries any other x58 boards however my rampage has given me excellent clocks with ease no troubles at all, excellent bios support little more expensive but a top notch board.

If not I would try the Nvidia X58 or Bloodrage

[Xello]

many people wish to disable HT for the sake of higher clocks and i just don't understand it

So someone A) doesn't need 8 threads and B) does need higher clocks / lower temps / lower vcore, what's not to understand?