New motherboards and inel processors

[Todd 0]

Going to give the p67 series and intel 2500K processor a shot today. Built system last night and should have the 1480 X 2 in today.

 

Wish me luck!

[Todd 0]

8 hours in and so far so good. No issues. All is smooth.

[Todd 0]

2 more solid days. It looks like the P67 and 2500K cpu's are ok. So far so good with no hicups.

[Birdman Adam 0]

Your using intel's new P67 chipset? And their new Sandy Bridge series? Which processor specifically? What mobo?

 

Got any pictures?

[Todd 0]

I've got some pictures on my phone. I'll get them up at some point in time. Using the Asus P8P67 and the 2500K cpu. Running 2 Geo 1480's for 32 channels. One WD blue 500gig OS drive and 5 Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB drives. An Evga geforce 210 vid card and 4 gigs of OCZ DDR3 1333 ram. Windows 7 32 bit, Antec 300 case and a OCZ ModXstream pro 600W psu.

 

Could have used the H67 board and onboard graphics but they wanted 5 Storage drives so I needed 7+ sata controllers. This board has 8 on it. 4 sata 3.0 and 4 sata 6.0.

 

So far so good. It's snappy and doing what it should. I think sandy bridge will be good for these systems. Microcenter has a good deal on board and processor in store.

[Todd 0]

Here's a pic

 

[Birdman Adam 0]

That is beautiful.

 

This is funny because I was just thinking about building a new desktop computer for myself, with the exact case, CPU, and mobo!

 

The cable management on the Antec 300 case seems good. I love how many options it has for fans! Did you fill the side and/or front fan areas? Did you opt to get 3 or 4 pin fans and have to mobo control them? Hows the new BIOS with this board?

 

Which mobo specifically did you go with? For example, the Pro or Deluxe version? I was going to buy the Pro version, overclocking sounds good with these boards and the 2500K. Since the 2500K has an unlocked multiplier, I have heard of people hitting 4GHz+ out of the box, and 4.5GHz+ with a better air cooler!

 

So you went with 1333MHz ram. For my personal build, I was going to get some 1600MHz. Would the 1600 perform much better than the 1333?

 

Sorry for all the questions!

This would be my first 'from-scratch' build.

[Todd 0]

This is just a straight up p8p67 asus board. I used 1333 ram since it will never get overclocked for this vid system. I put 2 geo 1480's in it.

 

I would use the 2400 cpu but the deals at Microcenter for the 2500K and board is too good to pass up and we put 6 hard drives in this thing. (10 TB for storage) I got board and cpu for $299 and yesterday I bought cpu and Gigabyte board for $279. I also found some 1600mhz ram for $40 (adata). So far so good. Nothing hicupped.

 

The antec 300 is a good case. Newegg had the Illusion that comes with the front fans already installed for $55 and free shipping. I got three of them. I always put 2 fans in front and have never put a fan on the side. Generally that just confuses the airfloww and this only has a g210 vid card in it so it's not a big deal.

 

I like the front filter in these cases. It helps a lot.

 

If I were building a gamer rig...... I might use a better case....but this really works fine. I've got a gtx295 in one of these things so I know it fits. I would be carefull if you put on a huge air cooler but I can confirm that a corsair H50 will fit. (I have one in these cases).

 

I think 4 ghz would be a drop in the bucket. Haven't clocked one yet but it sounds like childs play.

[kiangkhai 0]

Hi Todd,

 

I had try with Gigabyte board but I am facing some problem with GV800, GV 650 and GV600. No problem for Combo series card.

 

Did you try with the PCI slot?

 

Thanks~

[HTElectrical 0]

Intel hit with chipset design flaw in Sandy Bridge rollout

 

It might pay to look at this article:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/intel-hit-with-chipset-design-flaw-in-sandy-bridge-rollout/44257