Hey Guys,
I'm building my new rig and I need some advice.
I know that I'm only gonna us my GTX280 and I'm NOT getting another one...
so because i'm NOT doing SLI, I'm 90% sure I wanna stay away from nVidia chipsets because I hear they aren't as stable / overclockable as the intel chipsets. Plus I want to build a RAID 0 Matrix which I hear is only possible with the Intel chipsets.
nvidia graphics + intel chipsets = I know... but that is my reasoning.
I plan on buying an e8500 or similiar cpu...
I have a good water cooling setup, my GTX 280 is BFG H20C water cooled model. So I have a sick affinity for mobos that have watercooled chipsets, major plus, but not a deal breaker if a good mobo doesn't have one stock.
Now... to top everything off, I have ONLY DDR1 ram... so I don't know whether to go with DDR2 setup or DDR3... is the performance difference worth the price?
so also some RAM recommedation would be nice.
I was going to get the ASUS Rampage extreme... but why buy a crossfire board I'll never, NEVER use crossfire... and I HATE ATI graphics. (but oddly love AMD?)... so instead of x48, i guess I'm looking at P45?
I'd consider getting an x48 if there if there are other advantages, or even some other chipset.
I'm going for a high-mid range system, I have money but I'm not looking to go off the deep end and get top of the line... so I'm not waiting for x58.
lastly, does anyone know of a way to use sli (or something equivalent) on a non nividia chipset other than the x58
mucho thanks in advance for everyones help.
I'm building my new rig and I need some advice.
I know that I'm only gonna us my GTX280 and I'm NOT getting another one...
so because i'm NOT doing SLI, I'm 90% sure I wanna stay away from nVidia chipsets because I hear they aren't as stable / overclockable as the intel chipsets. Plus I want to build a RAID 0 Matrix which I hear is only possible with the Intel chipsets.
nvidia graphics + intel chipsets = I know... but that is my reasoning.
I plan on buying an e8500 or similiar cpu...
I have a good water cooling setup, my GTX 280 is BFG H20C water cooled model. So I have a sick affinity for mobos that have watercooled chipsets, major plus, but not a deal breaker if a good mobo doesn't have one stock.
Now... to top everything off, I have ONLY DDR1 ram... so I don't know whether to go with DDR2 setup or DDR3... is the performance difference worth the price?
so also some RAM recommedation would be nice.
I was going to get the ASUS Rampage extreme... but why buy a crossfire board I'll never, NEVER use crossfire... and I HATE ATI graphics. (but oddly love AMD?)... so instead of x48, i guess I'm looking at P45?
I'd consider getting an x48 if there if there are other advantages, or even some other chipset.
I'm going for a high-mid range system, I have money but I'm not looking to go off the deep end and get top of the line... so I'm not waiting for x58.
lastly, does anyone know of a way to use sli (or something equivalent) on a non nividia chipset other than the x58
mucho thanks in advance for everyones help.