I've just purchased a Q6600 95w Go Stepping OEM cpu (£160 - $320 cer).

Can someone recommend a good mobo & hsf.

Regards

PJ

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I've just purchased a Q6600 95w Go Stepping OEM cpu (£160 - $320 cer).

Can someone recommend a good mobo & hsf.

Regards

PJ

Mine is currently running on an Asus P5B D/L WiFi (originally bought to host my E6400 C2D). At this point I would go for one of the P5K variants (higher FSB). I am more than satisfied with my Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme cooler (either a Scythe or Noctua 120mm fan gives enough airflow to overclock to 3.4G at acceptably low noise level (i.e. spinning at < 1400 rpm).

Everyone has their favorites. You will get many other opinions. Good luck whatever you go with - you will not be disappointed.

F.

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I have a asus p5k with a ac freezer pro 7, not the best hsf but well worth $21 from newegg,running at 3501 with alot of help from these boards ,temp=40c

I've just purchased a Q6600 95w Go Stepping OEM cpu (£160 - $320 cer).

Can someone recommend a good mobo & hsf.

Regards

PJ

I am really happy with the Big Typhon (Thermaltake CL-P0114 120mm CPU Cooler.) It keeps my cpu a little cooler than the Zalman but is much quiter. As for motherboard, while I really like ASUS products if you trying to keep the cost down then try the ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 LGA 775 VIA PT880 Pro/PT880. It sells for about $50 US. For mid price range try the Abit Quad GT It's around $200 US. Overclocks very nicely and stays cool. I have one of these that I got on sale and I'm happy with it. At the top end try the ASUS MAXIMUS EXTREME LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX. This one sell for about $350 US and is ready for the next gen intel chips. It's what I would buy next. I am currently using ASUS Striker Extreme's and while I am happy with them, the Maximus has impressive specs.
Hope this helps.

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GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L
ZEROtherm Nirvana NV120, or,
ZALMAN CNPS9700

Although only ~$100 the GA-P35-DS3L has been a great basic board with enough OC'ing cabability for me at least- I have three... two G0's and one B3... G0's OC'd to 3.1, B3 to 3.0... I have the NV120 on the B3 but had a CNPS9700 on it before and I would say they have performed within 1-2'C on the B3... all machine's run 24/7 at 100% load with various BOINC projects...

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Frostey Tech has a place to see HSF reviews.

I've just purchased a Q6600 95w Go Stepping OEM cpu (£160 - $320 cer).

Can someone recommend a good mobo & hsf.

Regards

PJ

just finished building my Q6600 GO on jan 7th.

gigabyte P35-DS3P
zerotherm nirvana

Ga-965P-DS4 for E6600 suport Q stabiliti and OC great
GA-P35-DS3L for Q6600 suport next generation 45nm Intel great stabiliti and OC...ram suport 1066
chip and solid mobo

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I've just purchased a Q6600 95w Go Stepping OEM cpu (£160 - $320 cer).

Can someone recommend a good mobo & hsf.

Regards

PJ

I've heard nothing but good about the Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme HS

Waiting on the fans to show up before I install it (have to purchase seperately), which will be tomorrow :)

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Thanks for the info guys. Sorry about the delay in replying. I orginally posted just before the outage yesterday & have been busy this morning.

Several crunchers have Asus boards & as I have mainly Asus in my builds will go for Asus on next trip to suppliers.

Once built, will it be better to have it crunch one project or four?

PJ

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Thanks for the info guys. Sorry about the delay in replying. I orginally posted just before the outage yesterday & have been busy this morning.

Several crunchers have Asus boards & as I have mainly Asus in my builds will go for Asus on next trip to suppliers.

Once built, will it be better to have it crunch one project or four?

PJ

that is a matter of preference.

I keep my quaddy on multiple projects due and a short cache to bandwidth limitations (dial-up)... in the case of server outage, its not going idle.

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Thanks for the info guys. Sorry about the delay in replying. I orginally posted just before the outage yesterday & have been busy this morning.

Several crunchers have Asus boards & as I have mainly Asus in my builds will go for Asus on next trip to suppliers.

Once built, will it be better to have it crunch one project or four?

PJ

If you can find another project where the cpu requirements are different from Seti and L2 usage is low. Then doing two projects with crunch3r's client set up for cpu affinity will probably give most cr/time.
Can't give any help on A.N.Other project, it used to be Einstein but that no longer works very well.

Thanks for the info guys. Sorry about the delay in replying. I orginally posted just before the outage yesterday & have been busy this morning.

Several crunchers have Asus boards & as I have mainly Asus in my builds will go for Asus on next trip to suppliers.

Once built, will it be better to have it crunch one project or four?

PJ

Depends what you mean by "best". Best for RAC or most efficient use of machine power.I seem to recall Richard Haselgrove indicating in another thread that a mix seemed to make more efficient use of resources (I think it was SETI and Einstein). Personally I've got 25% on CPDN (effectively 1 core but that makes sure that I NEVER run out of work whatever happens on SETI!!). Since I moved to that from 100% SETI about 2 weeks ago my SETI RAC has not dropped to the 75% of its previous value as one would expect, but seems to be holding at about 80%; maybe it needs more time to settle fully though. Of course, using CPDN as the secondary project means that my overall RAC is down because they have nothing equivalent to the Opp Apps - so be it...

Con't know if this helps at all,

F.

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I must be so bored :)

Tracked this thread down

SETI and Einstein Cooperation on a Q6600

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Happy birthday Calm Chaos!!! Terrible twos?


Calm Chaos... are you feeling it yet?

Thanks again for the info guys. I'm not bothered about rac as I've just added another customer's machine to the project (with full permission of course).

RAC is covered by the rigs added. I just wondered if the quad when built would run S@H, E@H, R@H & WCG comfortably.

[Edit] I don't o/c & I only use stock app)

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I just wondered if the quad when built would run S@H, E@H, R@H & WCG comfortably.

[Edit] I don't o/c & I only use stock app)

Can't think of any reason at all why not. Happy crunching.

F.

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Thanks Fred. Just have to wait now until I get the rest of the kit for the build. I must admit, I'm looking forward to it.

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the quadcore q-6600 runs on my side together with the asus p5k,
4 gig of ddr2-800 and the asus 8600 gt,video card, and is running very wel.

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the quadcore q-6600 runs on my side together with the asus p5k,
4 gig of ddr2-800 and the asus 8600 gt,video card, and is running very wel.

Nice system, I take it that you're using Vista or XP 64. I'll only have 3gb as XP pro 32 won't see the rest(I don't like Vista).

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the quadcore q-6600 runs on my side together with the asus p5k,
4 gig of ddr2-800 and the asus 8600 gt,video card, and is running very wel.

Nice system, I take it that you're using Vista or XP 64. I'll only have 3gb as XP pro 32 won't see the rest(I don't like Vista).

I run it dual-channel on a matched pair of 1G's (Corsair PC6400 Dominator 4-4-4-12). Very effective.

F.

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