QUOTE(kmarc @ Jul 26 2007, 07:33 PM)
...the upcoming Intel 45nm CPUs e.g. penryn. That's the reason I got this mobo. Another reason why I got the E6750 instead of the E6850/Q6600. Planning to go for the penryn family of CPUs in the future.....

tat's the reason y i wanna get the 1st option cuz Celeron 420
(Conroe-L) is supposed to be as good as E2140...

Celeron 420 did 42sec in 1M super_PI on stock as compared to AMD X2 3800 which did 44sec on stock... even though the diff not big but price very big...

tat can hold on until Penryn family... but i don need the RAID & the Big pipe thingy... Crossfire i might consider...
Added on July 27, 2007, 9:20 pmQUOTE(kmarc @ Jul 26 2007, 06:50 PM)
I think the 2nd option is better as I just acquired the same configuration - GA-P35-DS3 + E6750.
I did much research on gigabyte mobos and found that the GA-P35-DS3 was suitable for me. Single PCI-E x16, ultradurable 2 features and no raid. Not much review on this board but I think it is equivalent to the GA-P35-DS3R mobo (which is only different by having the ICH9R chipset which includes the raid function). In terms of OC, this mobo is supposed to be able to go up to 490-500Mhz bus speed)
So far, I've tried a bus speed of 420Mhz and it worked flawlessly (at stock MCH/FSB voltages).
For the E6750, the only problem compared to the E6850 is the 8x multiplier. If you want to aim for 4Ghz (dunno whether possible or not), you would need a bus speed of 500Mhz!!!
So far, I'm orthosing my E6750 at 1.35v (stock voltage) at 3280Mhz. That's the highest stable OC I can get on stock voltage. Probably try higher voltages later.....
err... my GA-965P-DS4 can do 500x7 wif E6300 but Orthos 3 sec then error and full load temp at 62...

but voltage at 1.38V... don really wanna go for higher voltage...
This post has been edited by t3chn0m4nc3r: Jul 28 2007, 10:56 AM