What Woud You Do?

[Hooptymobile]

Ok Im posing a few scenarios (regarding P67 issue etc).

I can go out buy a cheap 99.00 P67 and wait till the z68 comes out.

Pick up a Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD5 that is on the shelf at Tiger Direct depot store. (Only have 1 left)

Do nothing and wait till (possibly April, May to build) once they ship out fixed mobos.

Order Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 online from store.

The reason I mentioned the last one (UD7) is because I'm curious to know if I get the UD5 over UD7 will I lose out on any ability to overclock every last drop of speed out of my cpu possible? If so I would get the UD7.

Ive seen postings of guys hitting 5.5ghz on UD5. But the girl from UK that achieved 5.8 was on a UD7. So will I be cutting myself short on max OC capability if I go with the lesser?

Thanks for your replies.

 

[Numenorean]

Well I bought a P55 board and an i7-870 like two weeks before SB came out. So that's what I would do lol.

 

[Anomaly1964]

With what I know now, with what the PC world knows now, build your sandy bridge and get the new card when they come out...

Just out of curiosity, will hitting 5+ghz help you in the main uses of your PC or is it simply a "because I can" thing...?

 

[Hooptymobile]

Anomaly,

This is my 2nd build ever. My 1st was a 775 chipset and I wanted to overclock but never took the initiative to. So now with the Sandy Bridge releasing with such positive reviews on OC ability this will be my opportunity to learn the art.


Aside from that I have no real world use for overclocking. Going from 2.6 to 3.4Ghz (base) will suit me fine.

 

[Dangerer]

Did you mean 4.4ghz and 4.8ghz?

 

[Hogan773]

Ok Im posing a few scenarios (regarding P67 issue etc).

I can go out buy a cheap 99.00 P67 and wait till the z68 comes out.

Pick up a Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD5 that is on the shelf at Tiger Direct depot store. (Only have 1 left)

Do nothing and wait till (possibly April, May to build) once they ship out fixed mobos.

Order Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 online from store.

The reason I mentioned the last one (UD7) is because I'm curious to know if I get the UD5 over UD7 will I lose out on any ability to overclock every last drop of speed out of my cpu possible? If so I would get the UD7.

Ive seen postings of guys hitting 5.5ghz on UD5. But the girl from UK that achieved 5.8 was on a UD7. So will I be cutting myself short on max OC capability if I go with the lesser?

Thanks for your replies.

OC like that and I hope you're rich because you'll be buying a new CPU every month....