Best overclocking P35 for the money?

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I'm confused by all the DS3R/P/DS4/DQ6 models...

also the Abit IP35, IP35-E, IP35-Pro....What are the differences between all these?

I don't need a bajillion SATA ports or crossfire support or anything like that. What I want is a good overclocker...something that hits 500+fsb would be nice. NB cooling I'm not too concerned about as I will most likely throw it into my water loop if temps are a concern.

The cheaper the better! After all, performance on a budget is what overclocking is all about!
 
The gigabyte DS3R is very good value for money, and an excellent overclocking board. Ive had mine for about 2 months now and got my Q6600 running at 3.2 all day long.
 
The abit IP-35 Pro i beleive is considered one of the best overclockers for the money and has all the right features you could want i think.

Of corse its all opinions but ive seen a lot of reviews making them their editors choise etc.
 
I got my P35 DS4 for £104 and without doing anything to it at all, not even updating the BIOS, i got my 6750 up to 3.64Ghz :D. I think its a pretty heavily overlooked board.
 
gurusan said:
also the Abit IP35, IP35-E, IP35-Pro....What are the differences between all these?

I don't need a bajillion SATA ports or crossfire support or anything like that. What I want is a good overclocker...something that hits 500+fsb would be nice. NB cooling I'm not too concerned about as I will most likely throw it into my water loop if temps are a concern.

The cheaper the better! After all, performance on a budget is what overclocking is all about!
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sounds like an IP35-E would suit you nicely.

IP35-E - basic mobo, ICH9 so 4 SATA & no RAID, no Firewire
IP35 - adds firewire & ICH9R so you get Intel Matrix RAID on 6 ports, different chipset cooling, solid caps around CPU
IP35 Pro - uGuru, firewire, ICH9R, 2 xeSATA, 2nd Gb LAN, onboard power & reset switches plus clearCMOS switch on IO plane, 2nd physical x16 (electrical x4) PCI-E slot, 100% solid caps, different again chipset cooling
 
Electrolytic capacitors suffer from the electrolyte (the insulating stuff inside them) drying out after x many hours operation. In fairness, it requires A LOT of hours - many thousands. However, eventually they will dry out and when that happens its the end of the road for that capacitor - and your motherboard unless you are handy at electronics.

PSU's suffer from this problem much more than motherboards because smoothing and rectifying the AC mains inot the DC voltages used by your system requires beefy capacitors. Quality PSU's have been using solid capacitors for some years.
 
BUFF said:
sounds like an IP35-E would suit you nicely
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Good board for a cheapy....500fsb i don't think so....tried one although it got me Quad to 4g for a pi run...it run into a wall around 445fsb....maybe the P5k.... cheap and seen these do well over 500fsb!....but has bad vdroop like the other boards mentioned (there is a vcore mod for P5k) Looking into the P5K-E myself as it has a vcore voltage damper which when turned on in bios is supposed to work but only on the E upwards!.

Electrolyte caps are supposed to be good for at least 4yrs and the boards got 2yr warranty anyway and 3yr on ASUS...how long do you plan on keeping...solid caps last longer...but when pushed hard enough they will xplode as seen on XS.
 
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