Villainstone

I called Kindston and they sent out my RAM Monday, and they said it was sent 2nd day FedEx. The RAM that I am using right now is a waste of time to play with. It tops out at about 900mhz or so but gets errors so I need to RMA these as well. They run fine at stock and that is why I have yet to RMA them.

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Robilar

The chipsets do not need water cooling. The NB runs cooler than any board I have ever used. the cpu area is standard LGA775 so any block would work.

kimosabi

So, Robilar.

Can you give me a reason not to buy this board? No SLi reasons.

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Robilar

Other than its only 8x8x for crossfire (which is still perfectly fine for anything other than crossfired 4870X2's), no.

the included easytune software is excellent as well.

Lt.JD

Robilar would you recommend this over a Rampage Extreme. Also how far do you think this could push a Q9550 C1?

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Robilar

Seeing as I owned a rampage extreme, I'd have to say yes to the UD3P.

First its light years cheaper (less than half the price..., actually a third of the price in the US!)

Second, it uses DDR2 and supports up to DDR2 1366. The only platform that actually takes advantage of DDR3 (in terms of providing increased performance over good quality DDR2) is X58. Otherwise, this board will take blazing fast DDR2 at tight timings.

Third, it will do north of 500 FSB with a quad (including your C1 9550). My rampage extreme topped out at 490FSB with two different quads. Still decent but for a $430 motherboard requiring more expensive DDR3?

the low multi 45nm quads are tailor made for this board. with an 8.5x multi and the ability to do 500 fsb (as long as you have ram that will do 1000mhz in 1:1 ratio), there is the potential to do north of 4ghz with a Q9550, especially on water.

Lt.JD

Thanks Robilar I think I will go with this board since I really dont want to shell the money for a Rampage if this is cheaper and will out clock it.

Robilar: have you've heard good things about this RAM:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231209

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Robilar

I have actually. There are a couple of members at XS that were quite impressed with it.

monkeyman

I've been lookin at the GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS3L and the ASUS P5Q Pro for my new build. I have an e4300 a friend gave me as a gift, would you recommend the UD3P over these two boards for this chip? I'm confused as to what to get.

Thanks

hawaiian_geek

I don't see why you can't use the e4300 cpu with the Gigabyte ep45-ud3p mobo. I originally was going to use the ud3p with a e6400 cpu but decided to get the q9550 after reading this thread & the one at Xtremesystems. The e4300 is compatible with the ud3p mobo. You'll be ahead of the game and when you're ready you can get a better cpu.

http://www.gigabyte.us/Support/Mothe...ProductID=2914

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