which mobo to pick asus P5K-E or asus Asus P5N32-E

redknight333 · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:48

This is whats going in it

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Asus GeForce 8800 GTX HTDP 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

i will not be overclocking, i want it for gaming will be running winxp pro and maybe later vista, and can you point me to the best 2gb ram for use with those 2 boards.

And i really want it to run stable with no messing in the bios well not too much.

snowdog · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:54

p5k-e is defiantly more stable with less issues as nforce boards.
I'd go for the P5K-E.

However if you don't want to overclock, why do you look at expensive asus boards with top chipsets anyhow, you could just aswell buy a cheap ASrock board with a 945 p chipset, they are still perfectly stable @ stock as most boards are.

redknight333 · 17 Nov 2007 at 13:03

i think OC only have 1 ASrock board and its only got 2 sata on it i want more than that at least 4 or 6 more the better.

snowdog · 17 Nov 2007 at 13:13

Okay, then go for the P5k-E imo from those 2, more stable chipset in general, more stable&featured&compatible sata controller, and intel chipsets usually clock higher than nforce.

redknight333 · 17 Nov 2007 at 13:31

and which ram would be the best for P5K-e board 2gb will do fine for now

Pneumonic · 17 Nov 2007 at 13:36

Geil PC6400 800mhz Ultra Low Latency

redknight333 · 17 Nov 2007 at 16:03

there is 3 sets of geil memory doesn't matter which?

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GB22GB6400C4DC)

800MHz RAM Speed, CAS 4-4-4-12 Timings, 1.9-2.0v VDIMM

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)

800MHz RAM Speed, CAS 4-4-4-12 Timings, 1.9-2.3v VDIMM

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400DC)

800MHz RAM Speed, CAS 5-5-5-15 Timings, 1.8-1.9v VDIMM

Pneumonic · 17 Nov 2007 at 16:23

The first two are slightly faster than the 3rd

redknight333 · 17 Nov 2007 at 16:33

so you wouldn't recommend any other brand of ddr2 memory just geil ram? i've also heard some asus boards are picky about running geil ram

snowdog · 17 Nov 2007 at 17:00

You could go ocz ddr800 cas4 or cruciall ballistix alternitavely, I've had no problems myself with Geil Ultra low latency ddr800 on my Asus boards.

vocch · 17 Nov 2007 at 22:34

redknight333 said:
so you wouldn't recommend any other brand of ddr2 memory just geil ram? i've also heard some asus boards are picky about running geil ram

Just got a P5K-E and allready had some Geil Ultra PC6400 and OCUK PC8500 and both work fine.

Pneumonic · 18 Nov 2007 at 01:06

The Geil Ram works fine on my P5K-E, for other type of memory as snowdog said the OCZ and Cruciall are also good... OCUK normaly has an offer on one of the better brands of RAM