[rickss69]

With the recent fiasco of a ill fated laptop purchase I needed something else to occupy my mind. I'm going to start what I would call a semi-old school socket 775 game rig. All the cool guys had one of these back in the day...unfortunately I wasnt one of them lol.

Going to begin with a NZXT Phantom 410 mid-tower case. Looks kind of orange in the pic's, but it is a beautiful blood red color. No particular hurry or direction with this one. I have a q6600 and a Q9550 quad cpu as well as a Evga 790i SLI or an Intel DX48BT2 mb to choose from. Just going to wing it as I go...

[Witchdoctor]

Looks like fun Rick, going 775 old school on us ..................

gotta think the 790 and the Q9550 would be epic

[rickss69]

Yeah, but the q6600 would be more authentic for the period. Thinking maybe throw in those two beastly Zotac 8800 GT's for good measure...whadaya think?

[Witchdoctor]

Yea with the orange lights FTW ........... Have two of them sitting here as well .....

[Kal-EL]

I remember nuttin but problems with the 790i.

[Witchdoctor]

Has to be better than the Intel .................

[rickss69]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

I remember nuttin but problems with the 790i.

Don't recall anything specific...while not the absolute best at the time they were/are pretty good clockers. Mine served me well with a e8400.

Originally Posted by Witchdoctor

Has to be better than the Intel .................

I may pair the Q9550 with the Intel board sometime down the road...it is more of a workhorse than a clocker for sure.

[rickss69]

The really hip guys were into watercooling their uber-clocked gamers...not sure what I want to do on this front. While watercooled video cards had not made a debut yet, these GTX 280's would love another go at it. Feel free to throw some idea's out here folks.

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

I remember nuttin but problems with the 790i.

Same here, I was thinking X48 and 45nm CPU would be good. Throw the Q6600 on the nvidia chipset


IIRC the 680 and the 780 were just rebadges...


EDIT: Holy Crap, its only been 5 years since the 780i came out???

EDIT EDIT: Missed the WHOLE thread. Going to read it all now



Very nice. 4GHz runnable?

(I just spent the last 15 minutes researching nForce chipsets, what a stroll down memory lane )

[rickss69]

The q6600 is pretty much toast....nothing wrong with the 790I tho. Scaled the Q9550 back to 3200MHz and installing a Steam game atm.