The Asus P6 motherboards all look so similar!

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mischa88

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Hello!

I am going to build a computer and have decided to use an i7 processor. I have been looking at the Asus P6 motherboards and comparing them. I am assuming that the P6X58D Premium ( http://uk.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=wurRaDZ8lo4Ckukj&templete=2 ) is the best in the series, but I have never built a computer before and don't want to risk spending money on this, when another would be just as good.

FYI, all I have decided so far is that it will be i7, with an SSD hard drive and am likely to have a HDD as a second drive. I have 64 bit Windows 7.

Thank you for taking your time to read this! :)

Edit: Realised this question seems vague. The question is: Is the P6X58D Premium a good option, or generally speaking, does it matter which version to use?
 
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If u r using a ssd, make it your windows drive ( C: ) and disable the pagine file on it and put it on the second harddrive, as ssd dont like being written to and go bad quickly. How about the mobo, with built in water cooling block to get the best OC Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7
 
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Shlouski said:
If u r using a ssd, make it your windows drive ( C: ) and disable the pagine file on it and put it on the second harddrive, as ssd dont like being written to and go bad quickly. How about the mobo, with built in water cooling block to get the best OC Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7
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Thanks, that looks good! I've only really considered Asus. Is Gigabyte better?

I'm going to have programs which are fast anyway (such as office) and documentsonto the HDD. Windows and slow to open programs (such as games) will be on the SSD.

I read around that SSD stop slowing down after a certain time and remain faster than HDD even after they do.
 
If you aren't using water cooling, then the Gigabyte wouldn't be as good. Bare in mind for water cooling you will need a big enough case, all of the parts (rad, pump, tubing, waterblocks etc) which for a decent kits adds up to quite alot.

You know you want it to be i7, but do you want it to have dual or triple channel memory? If triple, then the Asus board you picked will be fine because it is socket 1366, if you want dual channel memory, you will want a socket 1156 board. Remember that there are different i7 CPUs on different sockets, so work out which you want first. Triple channel memory is faster, but a triple channel kit is more expensive than a dual channel is.

Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, EVGA and Foxconn are the best brands going, there are others that are decent, ASRock, Biostar etc, but aren't as good as the ones listed. Do you have a budget for all of this?
 
Thank you, the feedback you all have given is better than I expected!

I am interested in water cooling. I have no idea how you would choose it or set it up and that is on my list of things to research, but I like to keep my room warm, so water cooling would probably be best (plus I may over clock when confident!).

I haven't picked a specific CPU model yet, but i7 960 3.2 GHz seems to be the best i7 without having a large gap in pricing between it and a better model.

Good bye, student loan!
 
Actually, that'd be the i7 930. It's only 400MHz slower than the 960, but it's nearly $300 cheaper.
 
Intel released a new cooler with their six core i7 (the 980x i believe) and it actually has heatpipes! I think you might get it with the 930 but i'm not sure.
 
Thanks for all this advice!

I have decided to get the i7 930 as suggested. I didn't notice that it was so much cheaper! I've read you can over clock it up to about 4ghz.

Going for the gigabyte motherboard that was suggested. Still not sure about cooling though, but that needs research (haven't read much about water cooling yet).

Also, I had no idea you could overclock your RAM lol. I might try that unless guides say its risky.
 
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