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DickNervous · 06-August-07, 09:26 AM

Okay, so I am looking to upgrade my gaming rig to a C2D chip, one of the 6x50 chips which have the 1333mhz FSB. I was going to go with a 680i SLI board but then I thought about it and realized that there is a 90% chance I am not going to go SLI simply because with an 8800GTX card I won't have to anytime soon. And by the time this card is too slow, the next gen will be out and one of those would be faster than two of the 8800GTX cards. So I started looking into the Intel P35 chipset based boards and liked what I saw.

So here is the question I have for my fellow enthusiasts:

Intel P35-based board such as Gigabyte GA-P35T-DQ6 with Corasir 2x1GB DDR3 1333 RAM with the XFX 8800GTX card I have and a C2D E6850 3ghz 1333mhz FSB chip

-OR-

the nVidia 680i based eVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 board with Corasir Dominator DDR2 1250 RAM and the same video card and CPU?

The cost of each combo is not an issue and while I may OC the setup, I figure the stock performance will be more than enough for the time being so OCability is a small factor, but not major.

06-August-07, 09:26 AM		#1 (permalink)
DickNervous Vic Rattlehead's Hoe	Intel P35 vs nVidia 680i Okay, so I am looking to upgrade my gaming rig to a C2D chip, one of the 6x50 chips which have the 1333mhz FSB. I was going to go with a 680i SLI board but then I thought about it and realized that there is a 90% chance I am not going to go SLI simply because with an 8800GTX card I won't have to anytime soon. And by the time this card is too slow, the next gen will be out and one of those would be faster than two of the 8800GTX cards. So I started looking into the Intel P35 chipset based boards and liked what I saw. So here is the question I have for my fellow enthusiasts: Intel P35-based board such as Gigabyte GA-P35T-DQ6 with Corasir 2x1GB DDR3 1333 RAM with the XFX 8800GTX card I have and a C2D E6850 3ghz 1333mhz FSB chip -OR- the nVidia 680i based eVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 board with Corasir Dominator DDR2 1250 RAM and the same video card and CPU? The cost of each combo is not an issue and while I may OC the setup, I figure the stock performance will be more than enough for the time being so OCability is a small factor, but not major.