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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>> 2) Main board. |
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>> I was advised to get Asus P5K Premium (P35, ICH9) for Q6600. The thing |
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>> is there are models from the P5Q series (like P5Q3) which have a newer |
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>> chipset (P45, ICH10) but the same price. I can't understand why should |
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>> I choose the premium mobo even it's an older model. Please, advise. |
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> I'd recommend the Asus P5E is you can find it. It's X38 based (slightly |
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> more overclockable then P35 and P45, supports crossfire PCIe x16 while P35 |
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> and P45 only have PCIe x8 in crossfire) with FSB1600 and its price is very |
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> good (130€ here). |
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Since about 2 months I have a new system. I was also looking into the |
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Asus P5Q series, but noticed that it has a harddisk controller that |
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was not fully supported by the kernel at that time. Eventually I have |
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bought a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R, which runs fine. |
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I want to use this new machine for about 5 years. I expect that even |
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on the desktop, multi-threading and parallel execution will become the |
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standard, so I chose a quad-core instead of a dual core (if you play |
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games, you might want to look for dual core with higher MHz). |
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This board has extra cooling features that only work with 45 Nm CPU, |
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so I bought a Q9300 instead of Q6600 (which had better value for |
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money). The memory I used: OCZ2RPR10664GK (OCZ, Reaper edition, |
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PC2-8500 @ 1066 MHz, 4 GB Kit). Twice: so a total of 8 GB, |
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/var/tmp/portage and /tmp are mounted as tmpfs.. |
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Regards, |
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Martin |
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