If you are not going to run an SLI rig, I think it is best to avoid nvidia chipsets.... I have never used the P43, so I can't judge how well it will work. My experience with 750i and 680i has been fairly poor. Sure, Nvidia chipsets OC well, but they don't really hold up with time.
I own the Asus P5N-D and I have put this board thrugh hell and back over the past year with high OC's and bench marks and it has performed remarkably well.You should consider SLI as a future upgrade that can improve performance up to 90%,and you should be able to get another 98GTX cheap when you are ready.I have taken my Q6600 up to 3.6 benched and stable but put it back down to 3.0GHz because it was just a waste.I also prefer the Nforce chip for OC because you can unlink the ram and get your best timings and OC unlike Intel MB where a high FSB can leave you at a bad spot with your ram because you have to use the divider.
Unless you're going to get two 9800's now, I wouldn't get an SLI board. By the time it's necessary, it'll probably be better to get a new card altogether. I'm slightly biased against nVidia chipsets, but I'd recommend the P5QL anyway.
No, I wasn't doing heavy overclocking. In fact, at one point they told me to underclock to get the ram working properly. They are just unstable chipsets
No, I wasn't doing heavy overclocking. In fact, at one point they told me to underclock to get the ram working properly. They are just unstable chipsetsMunkyman587
Never compare a EVGA MB with an ASUS MB,and they would only tell you that if your ram was being undervolted and considering most MB don't volt past 1.8 from the factory and your Crucial Ballistix PC2-8000, requires 2.2v or just wasn't compatible doesn't mean you should generalize the ASUS into your experience of unstable chipsets,and if you look around at all the OC that has been achived with this MB there are videos on youtube showing what it can do,there's even a pencil mod that takes 5 seconds and almost no effort to eliminate vdrop.Just so you know EVGA doesn't make or design there own MB that's why they look like XFX MB.
Get the P5ND man i have it and been running solid since last april plus you can SLI the single slot video cards and a GTX295 will run well with the 750i.
Take a look at these benchmarks and scroll down to see all the resolutions that you will probably game@, this is why I always recommend Crossfire or SLI it makes no sense and is just bad advice to recommend a single GPU MB.When I built my rig I bought 2 8800GT 512mb GPU's for $220 total and they still beat the 260,280,4870 at the resolutions i game@ and cost a lot less,and all of these people with single slots have no choice but to make a costly upgrade and take out a GPU they probably bought last year it makes absolutely no sense at all.
[QUOTE="Munkyman587"]No, I wasn't doing heavy overclocking. In fact, at one point they told me to underclock to get the ram working properly. They are just unstable chipsetsrisc-vs-cisc
Never compare a EVGA MB with an ASUS MB,and they would only tell you that if your ram was being undervolted and considering most MB don't volt past 1.8 from the factory and your Crucial Ballistix PC2-8000, requires 2.2v or just wasn't compatible doesn't mean you should generalize the ASUS into your experience of unstable chipsets,and if you look around at all the OC that has been achived with this MB there are videos on youtube showing what it can do,there's even a pencil mod that takes 5 seconds and almost no effort to eliminate vdrop.Just so you know EVGA doesn't make or design there own MB that's why they look like XFX MB.
My ram was at 2.2, so they told me to take it to 2.5V. They also told me to take my ram down from 1000 to 800, and when that didn't work, they said to bring it down into the six hundreds... I wasn't about to do that, but w/e. Just google, people avoid nvidia chipsets if they can. I have 3 friends that are using evga boards- two 680i, one 750i... and they all have had massive issues that took a lot of troubleshooting to get through. Two of them RMA'd the boards for new one. I may be biased, but hell... 4 for 4 with problems is not my idea of "quality control." On the other hand, the rigs I have built for friends/roommates with x38, p35, and other random junk have all been rock solid (except a gigabyte one that had some odd issue that didn't impact performance or reliability). This is my last nvidia chipset... Don't try to correct my ram voltages or say I don't know what I am talking about- I knew how to set all the bios options properly, you are not the only person out there capable of such a simple task
What is with people like you and your selective reading I like how you completely ignore this statement." or just wasn't compatible doesn't mean you should generalize the ASUS into your experience of unstable chipsets."And your 3 friends all with EVGA MB I guess you didn't read this."Never compare a EVGA MB with an ASUS MB." or this '.Just so you know EVGA doesn't make or design there own MB that's why they look like XFX MB." And then you say this "This is my last nvidia chipset..." . Sure sounds like you have generalized all Nforce boards based of your experiance with EVGA.You might want to stay away from EVGA. Also the ASUS 6series MB didn't have the problems EVGA and XFX did Because they make and design their own MB.
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