2500k or 2600k and ASUS Z68 or Gigabyte Z68? - Page 2

Expensive but has lots of features.

Id get the UD5 unless you need those pci lanes.

ahhhemmmm BD.

I also have a warranty haha.

And i never said to go to 1.5v I don't run 1.5 on mine. but thank you for your sarcastic concern.

most people do not pass 1.5v that I have seen. people that do are taking their chips in their own hands.

1.5v has been the limit on all the Sandy Bridge tutorials and threads. Most people don't like going over 1.4 I could get 1.25 and easily hit 4.5 But I got 4.9 at 1.368

Well its really a no brainer. Just get the 2600"K" which gives HD video 3000 and is unlocked instead of 2000 video on the non K model. Not that you were arguing that anyhow, just some FYI to the folks reading this thread. The 2600k can be found online (reputable stores, not ebay etc) for $305. The 2500k is $225 and does not include HT. Now HT is NOT a physical core and its NOT like going from 4 lanes on a freeway to 8 lanes (like they attempt to get you to believe from the advertising), however, it does offer significant speed boosts during some types of computing. And seriously for $75 extra bucks, what's the point in penny pinching? You already have to buy an overpriced new MB... Personally I think $500 for a possible 5ghz chip and a MB with a billion features its well worth it.

The true delema I'm having is WHAT MOTHERBOARD TO GET. I've been looking for weeks. Tomshardware gave their thumbs up to the ASrocks board, Hardware heaven gave its recommendation to the 340$ gigabyte board (UD7), andytech had mixed things to say about the asus V pro. I pretty much stay away from lower priced boards or MSI offerings (personal reasons) so its between the gigabyte board and the Asus. I love the look and strengths of the UD7, but I don't use that extreme sli setups, and you lose the ability to have the processor do trans-coding (no outputs), but I am planning on watercooling/overclocking so I like the 24phase power design...and lets be real, the board looks awesome. I'm slightly annoyed that you have to buy a board with a million pci-e slots just to get dual Lan these days, makes it hard to get the UD7 board for Dual lan when I'll lose pci slots to PCI-e slots which I won't use (I don't need multiple of multiple video cards). The UD5 would seem to be a good alternative, however, it skimps on internal (6) Sata connections and for what I do 8 isn't even enough.

I'm leaning towards the ASUS pro board because it has most of the features I need (although its annoying that they put in a PCI-e slot but if you use it 1/2 your front panel connectors (in red) are disabled...) That being said, I've always used Asus and have been fairly happy until my last board the original CrossHair for orginal AM barton processors. The board was faulty from the get go, could never use all 6 sata connectors, no matter what configuration it was in, only 5 worked at any given time, 1 of the two onboard Lan connectors never worked and it was extremely finicky with ram configurations. So I'm a bit leery to purchase another $200+ board from them.

Anyhow what Z68 boards are folks here going with and why and if you have actually used it, how's it working out?

No point in the ud7 if you aren't running multiple GPUs

I would say z68 is a sure thing for encoding, but I also suppose it's no harm to wait and see what BD brings to the table in that regard..

HELLO friend

CPU - INTEL 2600K every one first choice (INTEL 2600K>>>>>>>Intel 2500K)
INTEL 2500K save your 100bucks
specially INTEL 2600K is much faster in video editing,gaming,other application
other guys talk about volts i think right volts are 1.45 FOR BEST OC
(1.5 volt is fooler volt that can kill the CHIP)

MOBO - ASUS P8Z68 Pro
THIS motherboard has excellent features
and performance better than gigabyte
( i'm happy u choose the right which is ASUS ASUS ASUS ASUS ASUS)
OTHER THINGS
ASUS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> gugubyte
ASUS gigabyte
ASUS winner and Gugubyte succks
Edited by ranveer - 5/27/11 at 11:16am

You .

2600k is not faster in games.
1.45v is not best for overclocking
1.5v will not kill your chip
asus does not have better performance than gigabyte

Infact just re-edit and delete your post and do us all a favour