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Putting together a quad core machine....
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:09 am
by 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.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:20 am
by michaelplogue
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:43 am
by 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!
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:46 am
by 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$
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:52 am
by 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
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:18 pm
by 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.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:07 pm
by -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.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:58 pm
by 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.....
