Good day all,
My new q6600 is now in hand...cant beat a quad for $290cnd!
Anyway now I need a motherboard for it and need some help deciding....
Here is my situation:
I will be running 2 systems:
E6400 and the Q6600
I HAD though the Q6600 was going to go be my server machine but with all the extra computer power I may want it on my workstation now...
By current mb is an EVGA 680i 1st gen that I've had no problems with other than only getting stereo audio from the digital audio port...
I'm a light gamer, very light now, and if I do OC, is is very light and just to learn the tricks. I do quick a bit of picture and video editing along with video conversion/muxing/demuxing etc and have a single video card with no plans for sli/xfire.
On the server side I run Windoze Server 2k3 w/Exchange 2K7 but am looking to move to Windoze 2k8 beta for testing purposes.
This will be the last hardware upgrade for a LONG time
So I guess I have two questions now...
1. Which cpu would you use for the server and which for the workstation?
2. For my second motherboard, based on the above info I think I'm looking at the following:
- Intel 975XBX2KR, nice looking board and has a serial port which I will uses.
- Intel DP35DPM
- Asus P5K
I'm trying to keep the choices as inexpensive as possible. I'll be running DDR2 so I don't need a higher end board with DDR3 support. One thing I do not like about the ASUS is that it only has s/p dif audio out and no toslink which I already have cables for.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!
Obi
My new q6600 is now in hand...cant beat a quad for $290cnd!
Anyway now I need a motherboard for it and need some help deciding....
Here is my situation:
I will be running 2 systems:
E6400 and the Q6600
I HAD though the Q6600 was going to go be my server machine but with all the extra computer power I may want it on my workstation now...
By current mb is an EVGA 680i 1st gen that I've had no problems with other than only getting stereo audio from the digital audio port...
I'm a light gamer, very light now, and if I do OC, is is very light and just to learn the tricks. I do quick a bit of picture and video editing along with video conversion/muxing/demuxing etc and have a single video card with no plans for sli/xfire.
On the server side I run Windoze Server 2k3 w/Exchange 2K7 but am looking to move to Windoze 2k8 beta for testing purposes.
This will be the last hardware upgrade for a LONG time
So I guess I have two questions now...
1. Which cpu would you use for the server and which for the workstation?
2. For my second motherboard, based on the above info I think I'm looking at the following:
- Intel 975XBX2KR, nice looking board and has a serial port which I will uses.
- Intel DP35DPM
- Asus P5K
I'm trying to keep the choices as inexpensive as possible. I'll be running DDR2 so I don't need a higher end board with DDR3 support. One thing I do not like about the ASUS is that it only has s/p dif audio out and no toslink which I already have cables for.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!
Obi
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