recommend me a motherboard please

[Destroyer^]

Hey peeps am looking to create a new build around a sandy bridge 2500K, for gaming and University work.. im just struggling to find a decent one that is not too expensive and doesn't have any issues with the backplate

[elitetech]

I need to know about whether you will be overclocking, how many graphics cards etc.
What compenents are you going to use?

[Destroyer^]

not going to be overclocking by much, not enough to up voltage anyway... room for 2 graphic cards..gna be using between 4-6 gb ddr3 RAM, a decent Gpu like a 6870.. so needs to allow for crossfire... possibility of using watercooling in the future if i decide to try overclocking

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I would get one of the cheaper Core i5 processors and modify the Turbo Boost.

This motherboard appears to do symmetrical Crossfire:

http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...942&tid=frooct

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/home/pr...ource=googleps

If it does it looks relatively cheap.

[Destroyer^]

hmm yeah just had a ganders at turbo boost, quite interesting the results between an i5 and i7...im looking at this mobo atm Asus P6X58D Premium

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

hmm yeah just had a ganders at turbo boost, quite interesting the results between an i5 and i7...im looking at this mobo atm Asus P6X58D Premium

The Asus P6X58D Premium uses socket 1366:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/190909...edium=products

The Core i5 2500k is a socket 1155 processor.

Also, since overclocking with the socket 1155 processors is done with changing the multiplier only an expensive motherboard is not really needed unlike with socket 1156 and socket 1366.

[Destroyer^]

so it only uses the multiplier?.. no FSB or voltage changing?.. hmm ill have a read up... cheers for pointing out the socket haha..multitasking is not one of my strong points

Hmm ive always thought of Foxcon as not a great mobo brand?... but definitely a lower price is always good aslong as quality is good

also ive found a nice board Asus P8P67 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard but for dual cards bandwidth is reduced to 8x 8x .. now ive heard the difference between 16x 16x to 8x 8x is about 2%.. any truth? or is it worth getting a dual 16x?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

so it only uses the multiplier?.. no FSB or voltage changing?.. hmm ill have a read up... cheers for pointing out the socket haha..multitasking is not one of my strong points

Hmm ive always thought of Foxcon as not a great mobo brand?... but definitely a lower price is always good aslong as quality is good

The base clock overclocking is limited to a maximum of 106MHZ from the stock 100MHZ. The multiplier is the main method though which you overclock socket 1155 processors. All Core i3 processors are multiplier locked and the non-K processors have a few extra multipliers free for Turbo Boost meaning a much smaller overclock.

Of course you will need to change the voltage if you intend to do a larger overclock but the socket 1155 processors don't consume too much power it seems.

Foxconn make computers for companies like Apple AFAIK.

You could spend some more money on another Crossfire capable motherboard but the Foxconn the cheapest one I could find ATM.

[Destroyer^]

Cheers for having a ganders dude.. you heard anything bad about Asus P8P67 Intel P67 ? i have heard that P67 has performed better than H67 chipsets

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Intel has three chipsets ATM for socket 1155. The H67 chipset has no overclocking enable but the IGP can be used and so can Quick Sync.

Lucid has supposedly come up with some software which means you can use Quick Sync with a separate graphics card in the motherboard:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4113/l...n-sandy-bridge

The P67 has overclocking enabled but you cannot use the IGP and Quick Sync.

The Z68 chipset will enable you to use the IGP,Quick Sync and overclock but has not been released yet.

ATM,some of the Asus P67 motherboards seem to have issues so I would look at a Gigabyte one.

[Destroyer^]

oh okays, do we know when Z68 is going to be released?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

AFAIK,these two motherboards will do Crossfire:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/msi-p...3gb-s-raid-atx

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigab...gb-s-sata-raid

[Destroyer^]

I like the first one, looking at what quick sync is it wont really be any beenficial for me if im not doing any video editing etc?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

oh okays, do we know when Z68 is going to be released?

I like the first one, looking at what quick sync is it wont really be any beenficial for me if im not doing any video editing etc?

The Z68 will be released in the next few months AFAIK and if you are not video editing then Quick Sync is not useful to you.