Price Match

[mr_m_cox]

I live in portsmouth and as a result like to go and collect all of my PC componants from Novatech directly. This is mainly to avoid damage in shipment, save shipping cost and I like to support Novatech as a local supplier to me both personal and through my work

I would love to buy my next motherboard at nova tech but they price it far higher than scan.co.uk.

Do Novatech price match or is this price wrong.

Please see links below.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... ASU-P5N72P (http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?ASU-P5N72P)

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=823491

[Jonny2Bad]

Dunno about the price but the boards wrong lol. I'd choose another board, if your go for nvidia chipset then evga is the only way to go.

[mr_m_cox]

I am also looking for review and opinions on the board.

Why do you say it wrong and to go for the evga?

THe issue I have is that the EVGA is the cost of a cpu Heatsink/fan more and the novatech price for the asus is that again over the scan price.

I need to stay around my budget of 300

has to have sli and strong overclocking

please feel free to reccomend, even if a different chipset (from nvidia obviously)

[Asce]

Better board than the Asus and should be a decent Oc'er. Oh it an EVGA board. 8)
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?EVG-750I

[Jonny2Bad]

Personally i wouldnt nuy a nvidia chipset especially if your going for quad overclocking. Why does it have to be sli do you already have nvidia cards?

[mr_m_cox]

I feel like I am buying old technology with that board. Does anyone have any background on it such as how it runs, temps, overclocking potential.

Am I right in thinking that the EVGA 750i authough requireing overclocking does have the potential to use and quad or dual core intel cpu's based on the core 2 design and socket 775. I am wanting to have upgradability with the board I end up getting and authough I know i7(Nehalem) will not be possable on it I would like to think I could get a current high end quad in months to come and it would work.

[Jonny2Bad]

Nvidia chipsets and quads dont mix well they just dont like oc them at all i would go for an intel board and get 1 decent gpu, or crossfire 2 4850's or 4870's which are just as good as and in a lot of cases better than nvidia cards now any how.

[mr_m_cox]

I haave had that suggested to me but do not think I will get enough in from the two 8800gt's to afford the outgoings of two new gfx cards.

[Jonny2Bad]

Ah yes i know the problem, my son inherited my 2 8800's on a 680i mobo with e6600, What board is it all on now? Why the need to upgrade most of the boards will take a quad they just wont oc them very well. I'd put them up for £190 for a 4870 lol

[mr_m_cox]

At the moment I have asus M2n32-sli, AMD X2 6000+ at 3.3Ghz, 2X8800gt's, 4Gb Corsair XMS RAM. I have got about 3 50 MAX to spend and wanted to go intel, they seem soooo much better at the moment. I was thinking the E84/500 cpu and a reasonalbe HSF for overclocking

[Jonny2Bad]

If im really honest with you there is nothing wrong with that system that you have, its pretty tough for me to say its even worth upgrading at the moment, you will not see a great deal of extra performance in gaming at all, certainly not worth the money you would be spending, i would make do till i7 and x58, as the rumour is that x58 will be sli enabled.

[mr_m_cox]

it will cost a bomb i rekon

As a side point do u think that E8500 is worth getting over the E8400. I can just about afford both but not the E8600. Is the 500 reallly worth the bit more. I guess it has a higher multi so better overclocking?

[system7]

Probably worth getting a feel for your upgrade here. An AMD 6000+ is roughly equivalent to an Core 2 Duo E6600 at 2.4 GHz in performance.

So an E8400 at 3 GHz is going to have about 25% more CPU power. In some games that may give you 25% more framerate, others will top out on GPU power.

In the Intel world, you buy the cheapest slowest processor in a series, and overclock it on a good motherboard to make up for the difference. E8400 types hit about 3.8 GHz tops.

[Jonny2Bad]

it will cost a bomb i rekon

As a side point do u think that E8500 is worth getting over the E8400. I can just about afford both but not the E8600. Is the 500 reallly worth the bit more. I guess it has a higher multi so better overclocking?
Yeah not that much and it will mean that all these prices will drop by quite a bit, so i reckon still worth hanging on, and as 7 says the 8400 will do and overclock it as they are so easy to do these days, so no need to spend out on the larger chips at all.

[Nox]

considering nehalem release date keeps getting brought forward by intel (is that a first or what in the computer industry??!) i'd say wait, till november, which is when it's currently due. For a noticable upgrade you need +50% cpu horsepower. If nehalem turns out to be pricey, it will come down, and force the current prices down. i'm pretty against nvidia chipsets (bloke at work has no end of grief with his) but it does sound you have a reason to switch. Given that your system is allready very very decent, i'd not rush into an upgrade.

Nox

[Mr. Orange]

Get a Skulltrail =]

[Nox]

hubba... skulltrail, i'd buy one just cos the name is cool :) they are about as fast as a slow nehalem will be from what I gather?

Nox