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Here's a heads up. A majority of you are looking forward to quad core and have concerns that it may not OC well with certain eVGA motherboards (680i nVidia chipset). Here are the newer motherboards to get:
TR/AR versions are the old models that were sent in for quad core support issues (some sites still selling the "non fixed/checked out" versions)
T1/A1 are the "new" revision
A1/AR (and all other Ax evga products) have lifetime warranty
T1/TR (and all other Tx evga products) have 2yr warranty
Since I can't find the A1 eVGA boards on Newegg, I'm going to suggest the T1 motherboard:
EVGA 122-CK-NF67-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188015
That motherboard can OC the Q6600 very well^^^^^^. A1 and T1 revision takes care of severe instability issues and includes the removal of a resistor to even out some voltages I believe. If you have a choice, the T1 version is the one you would want anyways. Browse down to post #6 for motherboard manual!!
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After awhile of research, the following combination result in great performance. It's not too much in price for the four key components and this is what I would get if I were to build a PC TODAY!!! For RAM, I may get two more of the same sticks to equal 4GB total.
EVGA 122-CK-NF67-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188015
EVGA 768-P2-N835-AR GeForce 8800GTX Superclocked 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130079
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148069
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017
TR/AR versions are the old models that were sent in for quad core support issues (some sites still selling the "non fixed/checked out" versions)
T1/A1 are the "new" revision
A1/AR (and all other Ax evga products) have lifetime warranty
T1/TR (and all other Tx evga products) have 2yr warranty
Since I can't find the A1 eVGA boards on Newegg, I'm going to suggest the T1 motherboard:
EVGA 122-CK-NF67-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188015
That motherboard can OC the Q6600 very well^^^^^^. A1 and T1 revision takes care of severe instability issues and includes the removal of a resistor to even out some voltages I believe. If you have a choice, the T1 version is the one you would want anyways. Browse down to post #6 for motherboard manual!!
======================================================================
After awhile of research, the following combination result in great performance. It's not too much in price for the four key components and this is what I would get if I were to build a PC TODAY!!! For RAM, I may get two more of the same sticks to equal 4GB total.
EVGA 122-CK-NF67-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188015
EVGA 768-P2-N835-AR GeForce 8800GTX Superclocked 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130079
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148069
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017