Well I guess you guys have made my mind up P5B Deluxe it is then.
Thanks for your help all
Well I guess you guys have made my mind up P5B Deluxe it is then.
Thanks for your help all
Oh God dont you 2 get started I must admit it was between these 2 Quad and Asus. I will continue to watch the Hexus Abit thread to see what happens.
"Hey guys, im finnally all set up on my board, got my maximizer installed and such.
This board is freakin fast. its runs 4:5 pretty well too.
right now im in 4:5 at 420x8 (3360mhzz) with 525mhz ram at 4-4-4-12-40 with 2.43vDimm (havent tested lower Vdimm, im certain this ram can go to 550 with 2.4v) But here is the kicker, my hexus pifast times are only 2 secs off my 4ghz times with the p5b Deluxe. thats with 600 less mhz!!! ~27.9 sec on 4ghz 1:1 500mhz ram 4-4-4 on 1333 strap, becomes ~30.09 3.3ghz 525mhz ram 1066 strap.
Also to note - this board offers great stability, pretty much if it boots it is stable, otherwise just flip the easy cmos switch on the back panel. I thought the P5B-D was the easiest overclocking board ever - i was sorely mistaken, this thing owns it, with better performance too.
Right now i am on the beta bios and i havent encountered any bugs at all."
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=131
Ok Buff your starting to change my mind. If the lastest beta bios cures the issues with the micron then I'll take a closer look. Thanks for the input Buff.
Last edited by DratUK; 14-02-2007 at 05:52 PM.
the latest beta has pretty much fixed the JMicron issues.
The only remaining problem is running a SATA optical on the ICH8R whilst also running an array on it.
Yep I ran through the thread on the link you posted. Confirms that this board will be a winner.
So the commando is a good board to get then? Im in the look for a new mobo (for new build) as well but don't want to get a board if I can't hit 400FSB at least. Needs to have IDE RAID (going to RAID two to four CF cards) as well does this mobo have that 2?
Imo you're going to struggle to find a Core 2 Duo that has onboard RAID for 4 IDE.
You might check the nVidia chipset mobos as the nVidia RAID used to span IDE & SATA.
It's either that or I might just buy an add in card. I've seen ST labs silicon image based controller IDE raid cards go for a tenner. What mobos do people recommend for hitting 400fsb easily and has good compatibility with RAM? (sorry bit out of the loop haven't specced a pc in ages) I see alot of people have problems with the Asus so a bit wary (using asus now on my athlon xp and even then that mobo gave me probs) ... MSI are good for easy setup apparently but doesnt overclock well so dunno. Main use for pc will be games and rendering in 3DS MAX... will also probably be going into a HTPC style case so need to keep things relatively cool.
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the abit AB9 QuadGT is a flier but it's new & they're still tuning the BIOS so the best BIOS is a beta - don't think that it will be long before there is an official 11 though.
Asus P5 series
Gigabyte S3/DS3/DS4/DQ6
975X
abit AW9D series
Asus P5 WH
DFI Infinity
nF650i
Asus P5N-E SLI
mobos from abit, Gigabyte imminent & MSI have their cheap P6N SLI FI out
RD600
DFI ICFX3200T2R/G
After seeing some of your posts Buff, I've gone for the Abit QuadGT for my other system.
Its working fine on my existing windowz install but can't boot from a CD/DVD (to reinstall) without the machine resetting. Putting this down to the current JMicron issues, will wait for an official BIOS release.
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