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Help with finding gaming mobo

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kay, I haven't posted here in about 4 years when I was building my last computer. I am now building a decent computer, but the only thing that i am out of the loop on is what mobo to buy to best suit my accompanying hardware. This computer is 98% for gaming. I just need help on mobo selection. Here is the hardware that i have in mind or bought already:

-2GB PC6400 800Mhz CL4 RAM (bought)

-SATA seagate 320 GB HDD (bought)

-PC Power and cooling 610W PSU (bought)

-Samsung SATA DVD-RW (bought)

-Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield /w Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro HSF (not bought)

-Nvidia 8800 GTX 768MB (not bought)


Soooo, there is all my hardware except case and mobo. I was thinking about oging without a case for awhile if i had a pricey mobo with a power switch on it. I want to have more than 3 GB of RAM at some point, be able to overclock my Q6600 and RAM, and also buy an additional video card down the line as well. So i think i am looking at an nvidia chipset that supports SLI. But what the hell should i buy. I will pay up to 300 dollars for this mobo but if anyone has any ideas as to what mobo I should use for overclocking and gaming, I would appreciate the input. Thank you
 
If you really want SLI, I recommend an EVGA 780i. I'm also building a new gaming computer atm, and for SLI that board looks to be one of the best. All of the 780i boards are virtually the same, only, the EVGA board also comes with a lifetime warranty. At the same time, there are known issues with some boards causing video corruption in movies and youtube, but not games.
Heres a thread about it: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=253891

Instead of a 8800GTX, have you looked at the 8800GTS G92 cards? The 8800GTX is a beast for sure, but the 8800GTS 512mb version comes with the G92 chip, which runs faster than the G80 chip in the 8800GTX.

Its not uncommon to hear of people getting two of the 8800GTS's to 800mhz on the stock coolers. :)
 
Motherboard chipset stuff such as 650i, 680i, x38, x48, ETC confuses the hell outta me. Is it anything that really needs to be worried about?, Because before, i was looking at a (680i?) Striker extreme. But now I am looking at an X38 or X48. Under 300 dollars for a mobo would kick ass for just a Crysis, COD4 computer. You say use a 780i mobo? Doesn't all that offer over like a 680i is triple SLI compared to "just" dual SLI?


And the second video card I won't be buying anytime soon. I just want my mobo to be somewhat upgradable and not dead end.... if i am going to pay around 300 for it.
 
Get a decent P35 for around 130 and be done with it such as the Abit IP35 or the Gigabyte DS3. If your not running 1920x1200 or higher, forget SLI. Forget the 8800 GTX, go for a 9800 GTX. Its the same performance and newer so it will have a higher resale.

Also, 800mhz on an 8800 GTS 512 would be pot luck. Most will do 750, and very few will get higher. Most 9800 GTX's can approach 800, and more will hit it and go over.

After all was said and done, my experiences with SLI were not worth it, and overclocking the CPU and GPU were not worth it. I primarily game, and this is at 1680x1050.

Also, i would advise against a q6600 for gaming. Not that this would be a bad CPU by any means, but you can have pretty much the same gaming performance for half the price.
 
Also, i would advise against a q6600 for gaming. Not that this would be a bad CPU by any means, but you can have pretty much the same gaming performance for half the price.
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Whut are people using then? I heard AMD is shitty compared to intel right now

NVM, i suppose that there are Core 2 Duo processors and stuff like that but I would like to get quality stuff since I don't do much else but use my computer (that I dont have).

When you guy s mentioned the 9800 GTX and 8800 GTS over the 8800 GTX, you're telling me to buy less video memory in exchange for higher core clock speed for the same price basically. Does the core clock speed mean more than the video memory in games or what? I will probably settle for that DFI Lanparty board and a 9800 GTX a suppose then unless someone thinks that there is a better solution. Thanks people.
 
Theres nothing at all wrong with the q6600...its a very good chip and is also at a very good price point right now for how much power it has, but the thing is pretty much no games with the exception of 2 or 3 can even come close to utilizing that power. Basically any Core 2 Duo clocked from 2.5ghz to 3.0ghz will not bottleneck any graphics card right now.

The 8800GTS 512 and 9800GTX 512 both use the G92 core which is a die shrunk G80 8800 GTX core. The 8800 GTX and the 9800 GTX are more or less exactly the same in performance, just one costs alot less to make. G92 uses a newer compression technology that makes up for the smaller memory bus and less physical memory.

If i did it all over again i would go with a P35 chipset and a lower end Core 2 Duo, and clock it up to between 2.5 and 3.0ghz.
 
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