Build Advice Best Socket 1366 Mobo and 1600MHz Ram

I would like recommendation and possibly reference to benchmarks if possible!

Can anyone explain Asus Rampage boards vs P6T or Sabertooth?

As you can see from my sig, i have what should be a beast of a system, but, alas, something is holding it back, so i plan to swap parts out (Financial situation dependant) until i find the culprit. Starting with the Ram.

I have not found a simple round-up of tri-channel DDR3 @ 1600MHz online.... There are so many options with timings and price. Also this vengeance vs. dominator thing is doing my nut in! They have identical specs..... so why the price difference? Would you actually see any performance difference?

Apologies for the dis-jointed nature of the post!

 

Could you explain what exactly is holding your system back?

 

And holding back how?

 

Want to speed it up? Drop the Raptor. Right now. Get a F3 1TB and a Crucial C300 with a Asus or Highpoint SATA 6Gb/s card. You do NOT need to upgrade or change anything else unless you are having SERIOUS issues

 

Thanks of the responses so far.

I don't know if 'holding it back' was the right phrase.

The system feels slow and unresponsive, it takes ages to boot, windows login is slow, it can twitch / hang for a second or two now and again. Fresh windows installs have not helped. It's a niggle thats been eating at me for months now!

The system i upgraded from was a Q9550 clocked to similar speeds and i knew not to expect much of a performance gain, but it actually feels slower.

Planning on a crucial C300 at some point soon, but dont want a 60GB, so am saving for a larger drive. I'm personally finding the 150GB on the raptor restricting.

 

just buy the SSD, and see whether you can feel the improvements.

 

Sorry, probably some really noddy questions but...

- Have you downloaded & installed the latest mobo/chipset drivers?
- Have you updated to the latest bios?
- Have yo tested your OC for stability and found the right settings
- Are you running the latest GPU drivers for your SLI setup?
- Is the PC maintained? (disk cleanups, msconfig startup apps streamlined, defrag etc)

Apologies if youve already done all these, but thought it might be worth an ask

 

As suggested, try just upgrading to the ssd. The rest of ur system shouldn't have issues, i dont think the raptor should be playing up in the ways you're suggesting but it sounds like a hard drive issue.

I recycled a mechanical drive when i first put together this system, SSD upgrade was fantastic and resolved any issues mine had that were similar to what you're experiencing.

 

Yes to all of the above! No harm in asking

Ok, cheers for the helpful advice. I'll review my finances at the end of the month and hopefully buy an SSD!

 

well on paper your specs look fine but if there is a performance issue then it would do no harm to run mem test to check the ram is ok and prime to check the oc is stable

 

your system should fly there should be no need to upgrade anything really.

id check for issues - if you have alerady done frsh installs then its likely a hardware or overclock issue.

run memtest
run seatools for dos on the HDD
run prime95 and coretemp for overclock

 

Just get an SSD. The difference will blow your mind.

 

SSD will make loading nice and fast but it won't solve any underlying issues you may have.

Is the twitch/Hanging random or when you do specific things, if it is at any time I would want to double check your RAM - in Bios are the timings and voltage for the RAM correct? Have you tried just using a module at a time to see if one of them is faulty. More inconvenient but can be quicker than memtest.