Motherboard suggestions

[skevil]

I'm looking to upgrade some parts of my system soon. I've decided on an Intel Q6600 with either one or two 8800's. What would be my best best for a motherboard, both for a single card and for an SLi setup? What do I lose, what do I gain, etc. For games like Crysis and Call of Duty 4, would a second card really be worth the cost running at 1440x900 on all high settings? I'm interested in doing some overclocking.

Side note: need opinions/help on DDR3 memory vs. DDR2

Thanks for the help

 

[DrMaV]

Q6600 is a great chip, get it to 333x9 for 3.0GHz easy.

At 1440x900, the 8800GTX,

Q6600 runs better on any P35 or X38 board, either Gigabyte or Asus.

If price is not an option – 8800gtx. Obviously, the 8800gt is the best bang for buck, and performs similarly to the 8800gtx.

Get the 680i board from Asus or Nvidia for SLI'd 8800gt(s).

Always depends on budget.

DDR3 does not have any advantage over DDR2 at the moment. Put your greens towards a better mobo, more memory (4GB), or towards a second GPU.

2 sli’d cards are used for resolutions above your resolution 1440x900, so one card should fulfill your needs.

Best bet, overall 680i with 2x8800gt with ddr2 memory.

 

[neoxblu1]

Heres what I think you should get:

Intel Core 2 Extreme Q6850, you can overclock to 4.0ghz with Extreme Q6950.

Asus Striker Extreme, EVGA T1, or Gigabyte GA, or N680SLI-DQ6

Corsair Dominator 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR3 1600

Dual 8800 GTS in SLI

 

[neoxblu1]

Sorry mistake

Its called Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 (which I think is the best board for SLI and 680i chipset, also great overclocking) Asus striker extreme is also very good.

 

[skevil]

I think I'm just going to end up with:

Q6600
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6
2 or 4 GB Corsair Dominator
Geforce 8800 GTX 768mb