[d7mcfc]

can't seem to find a motherboard that definitively tells me it is compatible with the intel Core 2 quad Extreme qX6700 cpu!

Need to order today, it any of you can be of help, it would be greatly appreciated.

[michaelplogue]

NewEgg Search

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... 17%3A19337

[d7mcfc]

Michael

Thank you. I shall continue my search from there.

With a bit of luck, by the weekend I shall have a modest beast of a machine! Compared to the single processor pile of junk I have been using up until now, that is!

Justbeen on your website. Love your surreal images. I'd forgotten how many you have made. keep up the good work!

[numerobis]

All actual boards with intel 975x (workstation) or p965 (mainstream) chipset should be quadcore ready...
http://www.asus.com/products3.aspx?l1=3 ... tel%20975X
http://www.asus.com/search.aspx?searchi ... chkey=p965

i would recommend one of the workstation series (975x)

ASUS P5W64 WS Professional http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3& ... odelmenu=1

- 8 Phase Power Design
- Heat-pipe Thermal solution
- Quad PCI-E x 16 slots

...and if you don't have too much money you can also take a q6600 and clock it to the same highs that a qx6700 can do... btw. in april the q6600 price will drop from ~750$ to ~500$

[Maximus3D]

I just upgraded to a dualcore cpu with such a Asus P5WDG2 WS Professional (workstation) motherboard as numerbois suggested on one of those links, and it's a great board.

/ Max

[d7mcfc]

Thanks again everyone.

I have just ordered one of the ASUS boards. Ishould have all the parts tonight!

I am also buying a XFX GeForce 8800GTX grahics card(although I know this won't affect Maxwell too much) and 4gb of RAM.

Hopefully now I can experiment a little easier with my Maxwell.

[-Adrian]

Kentsfield, 4GB Ram, GF 8800, i'd aim for pretty much the same setup if didn't have a new system already. Definitely a good investment d7mcfc.

[michaelplogue]

I think it's really nice to see mainstream, non-server motherboards supporting over 4GB RAM.

I guess we can thank Vista at least for that much.....