GA-X38-DQ6 vs 780i - Please help

Hello, in last 4 days i have spent almost £1950 (~4000usd) ordering all parts of my new PC .. however the only thing which is left is the motherboard ( and ram as it depends which mobo i go with ) and i cannot make my mind up .. the card i have ordered is a GTX 768MB and %95 i will not be using SLI or anything .. if at anytime i feel the video card is not enough for me i will sell it and get a ultra or something like that .. even tho with this card i will be fine for a while ... Now ignoring the SLI ... which one of this boards do overclock better? The good thing about the Nfore 780i is it supports DDR2 1200mhz which then i will be using Kingston Hyperx 1200mhz rams however the Gigavyte only supports 1066 mhz ram which means i will have to change the ram ..

eVGA NVIDIA nForce 780i vs GA-X38-DQ6

Or please recommend me a good motherboard which supports a high DDR2 memory and good OC features, Also i can spend upto 200pounds (400usd) on it ...

Edit : Also Maximus Formula (Special Edition) looks good .. cant really choose between this 3..

I will appreciate any replies,
Thank you

Specs of the ordered PC:

Intel Quad Core QX9650
HYPERX 4GB 1200MHZ DDR2 ( not ordered yet )
MSI GEFORCE 8800 GTX OC 768MB 8800GTX
Corsair TX 750W
Antec Nine Hundred
(3) 150GB Raptor 10k
(1) 500GB Sata2 32mb cache
alman CNPS9500A-LED Aero
Hyundai W240D 24" Full HD TFT Widescreen 1920x1200 3000:1 400cd/m2 2ms VGA/DVI/HDMI

Maximus Formula but you may need a bios update for that quad
Rich

w2richwood said:

Maximus Formula but you may need a bios update for that quad
Rich

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Hi Rich,

Thanks for the reply .. Yeah that motherboard looks really good to me too .. all the features and stuff ... As for the bios update i have a old core 2 duo cpu ( in a other rig and also a pentium D cpu ) which i can use to do the bios update so its fine ..

What ram would you recommend for that motherboard?

Once again, Thank you

any ram rated at DDR2-1066,will be fine. i dont see you needing or going over 500mhz though...

Hopefully in another week or so I will be able to post up my experiences with the X38-DQ6 and a Q6600 if that will help you out, NobodyNowhere. I'm presently on a drilling rig offshore in the Gulf of Mexico but my hitch will be up in another week and I plan to upgrade my main rig with that board. I'll be running either some G. Skill HZ DDR2-800 or Ballistix DDR2-667 in it for ram. Both use the Micron D9GMH chips and overclock pretty high. The upgrade is top priority when I get in, since I have had the board since Christmas. The only thing I've had time to do so far was to boot the board up with a Celly in it to make sure it worked.

keep us posted MUD!!! sounds like loads of fun!!

Yeah, I hope it's fun and not a big pain. I've heard that the X38 boards can be a bit quirky.