> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j maccraw > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] QX9650 & Phenom 9500 thoughts > > Got a heads up on what's good in X38 boards that are > DDR2? Frackers are damn > expensive at over $250, never mind the $300+ ones, so > I want to choose right.
Unless you just need that second full x16 PCIe slot, might as well go P35. Much cheaper, and largely the same chipset. Performance, at least, is nearly identically under DDR2. > > Was going to try & track down the disco'd GA-680i-DQ6 > until I read the bad press > on 680i's SATA problems from last year combined with > trouble now on newer CPU's. > Of course loosing SLI option in the process, but no > likely to use it anyway. > I had a GA-N680SLI-DQ6. Sold it a month or two later at a 40% loss. The 680i had such great promise in terms of absolute features, but I grew so tired of its general flakiness (and it wasn't just that board--I had tried a couple other 680i designs, including a reference eVGA). I'm now running much the same hardware on a P35-based board, and this is quite possibly the most solid machine I've ever used as a primary workstation---and all this on pre-SP1 64-bit Vista. That's saying something. :) Greg
