Switching to Intel

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feenyx360

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Hello all. I have decided to dump AMD for now and get an Intel. I have never owned an Intel and need some help switching over. I would like to get a motherboard that will allow me to have a good upgrade path. I would like to start with a core2 duo and move up to quad once the prices drop a lil. So what should I get as far as Mobo and Processor? I also just purchased some PC6400, so I would like to be able to use that as well as be able to scale up the memory to 1066 at some point. I just bought a HD3870 too so I would like to be able to run cross-fire too. Thanks a lot! :D

My biggest thing is to be able to move to Intels newer processors coming out next year.
 
For a mobo if you get a P35 or newer Intel chipset you should be fine with processor upgradeability
 
thats all i know about the x38, if your gonna go budget a 965 or p35 chipset will do you good. ddr3 is too much in price for me to recommend you for a good intel chipset.
 
a solid P35 chipset and a 6750 will do you fine. I switched over a month ago for my x2 5200 rig and my new CD2 rig blows my old AMD rig away to be honest
 
Well, I went for it and got the dx6 gigabyte mobo and a q6600. Not to mention the thermalright 120 extreme and a thermaltake armor case. First nice rig I have bought. Think I will see an improvement from my old amd 4200+? :p
 
feenyx360 said:
Well, I went for it and got the dx6 gigabyte mobo and a q6600. Not to mention the thermalright 120 extreme and a thermaltake armor case. First nice rig I have bought. Think I will see an improvement from my old amd 4200+? :p
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You mean the Gigabyte DQ6 right? If so, doesn't the Crazy Cool heatsink interfere with the Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme?
 
Yeah a dq6 (typo). The crazy cool heatsink can be removed and it actually guides you through the process in the manual. I hope I don't have a problem. You just lose the heatsink on the back of the mobo over the northbridge and secure the front with screws. I get my stuff today and will post some pics and stuff.

Also, I will not have my case today but would like to get it all running. What can I lay the board on that will be safe? Like hard plastic or something?
 
feenyx360 said:
Yeah a dq6 (typo). The crazy cool heatsink can be removed and it actually guides you through the process in the manual. I hope I don't have a problem. You just lose the heatsink on the back of the mobo over the northbridge and secure the front with screws. I get my stuff today and will post some pics and stuff.

Also, I will not have my case today but would like to get it all running. What can I lay the board on that will be safe? Like hard plastic or something?
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I usually just lay the motherboard on top of the cardboard box it came in with.
 
feenyx360 said:
What can I lay the board on that will be safe? Like hard plastic or something?
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I usually stack balloons on top of carpet, then lay the motherboard on top. It gives it a nice air-mattress like shockproof platform. :p </joke>
 
chrisf6969 said:
I usually stack balloons on top of carpet, then lay the motherboard on top. It gives it a nice air-mattress like shockproof platform. :p </joke>
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You forgot the most important step...!!! You gotta rub the balloons quickly across carpet to get rid of any static charge....
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I hope to get the drives hooked up tomorrow. Right now I am idle at 29c. :cool:
Can't wait to see how this performs. Getting my TT Armor case tomorrow.
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I did put the fan on the correct side of the heat-sink eh? I have it blowing through the heat-sink towards the backplate.:confused:
 
I did notice that even though I have the heat-sink completely tight, I can still move it with little force. Do I have too much thermal past on it. I was looking on Anandtech and they were idleing at 26 with the 120 on a q6600. Do you think the temps will drop once it is in the case?
 
feenyx360 said:
I did put the fan on the correct side of the heat-sink eh? I have it blowing through the heat-sink towards the backplate.:confused:
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yeah, it should be facing the backplate, b/c thats where there should be an exhaust fan suckign the hot air out of the case, after it comes through the heatsink.
 
Well, I went for it and got the dx6 gigabyte mobo and a q6600. Not to mention the thermalright 120 extreme and a thermaltake armor case. First nice rig I have bought. Think I will see an improvement from my old amd 4200+?
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found this here :confused:

First i bought the Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6, mainly because of price and that is was the first avalible and had a need of board. BIG mistake it turn out to be since i use 4GB RAM and 4x1 is the only acceptable setup around that can perform well on memory and Gigabyte missed to make 4sticks usable on this board, either i had very bad OC, only 3GHz on Q6600 G0 and only 1066Mhz on poor 5-8-8-24 timings and crappy 8GB/s read performance at tops and that on my good 1150MHz mem. When i had only 2 sticks in 3.5GHz was not stable all the time, some reboot was needed on startup to get in to windows.
No good BIOS is out either to this crap, tested a few of the brand new ones but no improwent at all from the old F5H or F3 ones.
When ASUS Maximus SE then was avalible i decised to test one out and that was THE right thing to do since 3,6GHz was a easy breeze and 1200MHz on mem at 5-5-5-12 and 10.1GB/s read on that low clock and 24/7 use, man i can se the diffrence of memoryperformance in windows and turned down memoryperformance in 3.6 on CPU to 8GB/s showes HOW slow that realy are and what good memory realy do for overall performace.
Now the heat on NB stops me since that crap out and fails Stabilitytests when hiting 60 degres celsius so anything over 3,6 is not stable under 100% load and the time of 8-12h to be considered seriously stable so i have to wc the nb as well and the fusioncrap is not good enough for me since it only gain a few degres and is poor 3/8 fitting, i use only 1/2 in my upcoming loop exept the f-fittings for memory buty that does not affect the flow or preasure at all, luckily EK has a sexy,nice specialblock for this MB just out.
3.8-3.9GHz is duable (on water of NB when use 4x1GB) with my Q6600, even 4GHz on high vcore for short use on this board and sevral GOOD BOIS has come and ZERO vdroop since loadline calibration works on quads on BIOS 505.
Only "bad" thing is the heatpipe but that is a small thing since 3:th party and aspecialy TR:s thing is always better that stockcrap or zalmancrap for that matter and TIM used are the cheapset around the planet. Even GA:s heatpipe is to small to handle the big heat put out under 100% load of Quad and OC worth the name OC and stable under the standardrate 8-12h.
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Holy heck!

That's a big heatsink solution.

I'm thinking of going the transition route as well for the moment.

I was looking at this same board. Not sure about what chip though...

I do want to have the DDR3 compatibility...


I should really start doing more research on this...that picture makes me want to buy a board and chip and heatsink and video card and ram and .... :)
 
Yeah its great. Last night I OCed to 3.0GHZ and I iam idleing around 28 to 29 according to speedfan. I haven't had to increase the vcore that much about .
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