Is gaming motherboard good for 3d?

[andytw]

Unless you are going to use the extra features of a gaming board then for 3D and overclocking you may as well save yourself some money and get a more standard board.
Most of the Asus P5K/Q series will run a suitable quad core at up to 3.6GHz with little trouble.
For instance the P5K premium will run with a stable FSB in excess of 500MHz which is more than adequate for overclocking CPU's which have default FSB's of 266/333MHz.

I have a P5K-E and a Q6600 and it will run at 3.6GHz with a FSB of 400MHz, though over the summer it has been cut back to 3.0GHz due to heat issues.

[wwswimming]

a gaming board is a good foundation for a 3D aps. workstation, if it's stable. if it's stable with a 20% OC, it's rock solid at stock speeds.

i've used OC'able motherboards running at stock speeds on a few systems.

[alvin-cgi]

Thanks.
I have P5B Deluxe, Q6600, and OC at 3.4 stable on daily use! I thought about gaming board, because new Asus has feature called “CPU level up”, which can choose whatever CPU you like without physically change the CPU… so save some $ there, but game board only take no more than 8GB of ram. So I think I will go for cheaper OC'able motherboards, put 16GB ram on it, and better CPU. :)

[olson]

The only reason to use a server or workstation board is to access more processing power or memory than consumer products. If a quad core with 8 GB is enough, then so be it. If you need more than that then you'll need a server or workstation board which will open the door to multiple CPU sockets and many more memory slots. Cheers!

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