i7 Upgrade Advice

[nightkhaos]

I personally recommend the UD5, because I find 10 SATA ports a must. But if you are happy with 6, the P6T will do you fine.

[Syd]

OK little confused by these two models - anyone know what they offer over and above the deluxe - look like new additions and I can't find any reviews.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Asus-...-SATA-RAID-ATX

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Asus-...3Gb-s-RAID-ATX

[nibbler]

They just aren't worth the money.

[Pob255]

Just looking at the specs
The deluxe has 6x SATA + at the back, 8x USB, 1x E-SATA
The WS has 8x SATA + at the back, 6x USB, 2x E-SATA

My guess from the colour codeing that the SATA on the WS are 6 + 2 or 6 + 1 + 1, so only a max of 6 drives in a raid
The WS also has 2x PCI-X (extended) off hand I don't know of anything that uses pci-x
Although they do look like the old ISA solts, so we may of gone full circle, ie first the slot size shrank and now it's getting bigger again.
WS also has a Diagnosis Card, with power and reset buttons on it.

Although as the WS is pushed as a workstation board, the BIOS may not be quite so good for overclocking. but that's more guess than anything.

[Clunk]

I personally recommend the UD5, because I find 10 SATA ports a must. But if you are happy with 6, the P6T will do you fine.

P6T Deluxe has 8 SATA II ports.

[Clunk]

Ahh, V2 only has 6.

[Syd]

Ahh, V2 only has 6.

Yup V2 lost the SAS and the extra 2 ports ......................... Great revision

And thanks to Pobs info sounds like the other two are not worth the extra - in fact as much as I want to buy a better board than the Deluxe I don't htink I can find one. I even thought (momentarily) about the Classified, but TBH that seems more of an ultra 'pimp' or overclock board, i'll be happy with 4GHZ and plenty of slots/features so, so far the P6 deluxe is winning for me............

[GSte]

The P6T Deluxe can take your CPU past 4GHz easily..... assuming that your chip can go that far of course.

[Infinite]

My ram recommendations; all 6GB 1600MHz:

9-9-9-24 = £90

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/6GB-(...d-CAS-9-9-9-24

8-8-8--24 = £101

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/6GB-D...preader-CoreI7

7-7-7-21 (1T) = £113

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/6GB-(...AS-7-7-7-20-1T


The dominator stuff isnt worth it tbh.

[Clunk]

Patriot Viper PVT36G1600LLK 1600MHz 6GB Triple Channel Kit

Have a look for these, you can sometimes pick them up for under £90 and they are a really nice set of memory.

[Pob255]

Patriot Viper PVT36G1600LLK 1600MHz 6GB Triple Channel Kit

Have a look for these, you can sometimes pick them up for under £90 and they are a really nice set of memory.

And it has nice black coolers on it to fit in with your build colour scheme

Nice to see you still pop on to hexus now and again Clunk

EDIT: Ebuyer has got some OCZ 3x2GB kits, 1600MHz, CL 8-8-8-24, 1.65V, for £99.99
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/158392

EDIT2: what about a DFI motherboard?
Hardwarecanucks liked the DFI LP UT X58-T3eH8
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...review-15.html
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/DFI-L...-SATA-RAID-ATX
As long as you can live with the yellow&green colour scheme

[Clunk]

They are the blue ones

[WorshipMe]

My vote goes to the Giggy, the Deluxe edition just isn't worth it.

[Syd]

They are the blue ones

Lol - I saw they were blue and thought Clunk must be right but, hmmmmm I wish they were black

[Syd]

There is a lot of talk re waiting for the i5 range coming through - but will it change anything if you are looking for best performane and are happy to overclock?

[nibbler]

They are looking good.
In MY oppinion go for the EVGA board ant this memory. But yeah.