Rampage II extreme or P6T Deluxe V2?

Building a PC for a mate and the P6T Deluxe V2 that I run mine off is out of stock, no ETA. Is the Rampage II extreme a better choice? or should I just wait til I can get my hands on the one I originally planned. the reviews I have read or all mixed, some prefer one, others the other.

I don't plan to overclock very much, as I have never overclocked before. Probably just to 3.4-3.6 and if he wants to push it further its his risk to take.

The P6T Deluxe has been replaced by the 6TD Deluxe http://techwizardz.blogspot.com/2009/08/asuss-xtreme-design-p6td-deluxe-core-i7.html

Supposedly good for a 220Mhz QPI but not really worth it for modest overclocking.

Yea the Asus P6TD Deluxe is the newer revision of the Asus P6T Deluxe v2. The only change that I see is that the P6TD do not have the on board SAS, and they removed the floppy connector on the board.

I have just finished my gaming build and I am using the Asus P6TD Deluxe with an Intel [email protected]. I am not an over clocker wiz, and I did manage to do a small OC to 3 GHz. For my memory I am using the Corsair Dominator GT (PC3-12800, DDR3-1600) and I had to clock it in the bios, I used the XMP profile and input these settings: 7-7-7-20.

At first I was looking for the Radeon 5850 card but they where all out of stock and I got desperate and went and bought a Nvida GTX295 and installed it and played Dragon age, while playing DAO I noticed some graphic glitches, so I re did the drivers, down loaded updated drivers, and tried it again, still the same issue, so I thought it was my OCing that my has cause this, so I set everything in the BIOS back to defaults, and still get the glitches and hangs up in the game. At that point it’s been 2 days and I found out that Microcenter had just got the Radeon 5850s in, so I returned the GTX295, re-installed Win7 with the new video card and put back my OCing to 3 GHz. I have not had any issues with my PC while playing DAO no glitches and no hangs, I even ran Prime 95 64bit on full load for about an hour just to try to see if it will hang but no, it works great, and I get nice temps with, my Corsair H50 push/pull while doing Prime95 for an hour the CPU temps never went past 59c and while playing DAO for about 4 hours I get temps in the upper 30c.

With my experience I got the best results on the Asus P6TD with OCing on a Radeon 5850 and I even OC the Radeon. I would say I am very pleased with Corsair for their H50 and memory, and very very pleased with the Radeon 5850, just imagine what I will get when I cross fire with another 5850. The Asus P6TD is good and it took some getting use to on the OCing part but I got it down and my system is very stable at 3Ghz, I do not plan to OC more than that knowing how much money I spend on my system I don’t want to take a high risk but if I was to OC it more I would max it out at 3.2 GHz.

@Living Waters.. most likely you just got a possible bad card.. your cpu oc wouldnt have that kind of effect on your gfx card since you don't up the interface between the card and the mobo..

psionic98 said:

@Living Waters.. most likely you just got a possible bad card.. your cpu oc wouldnt have that kind of effect on your gfx card since you don't up the interface between the card and the mobo..

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Yea thats what I was thinking, but I did return the GTX for another and the same thing happden, but thats what I get for trying to buy a card that was on sale it was the PNY GTX295 for sale for $475.00 at Microcenter, the guy at Microcenter was going to replace it with the EVGA GTX295 but they ran out of stock. And I didnt want to wait for the GT300 cards to come out who knows how long that will take.