High FBS Motherboard with quad?

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I am planning to get a Q9450 when they become available and I was wondering if there are any recommended motherboards out now or coming out in a few months that can reach a high FSB with the Q9450, as this seems to be the greatest limiting factor when overclocking one of these.

I don't want many bells and whistles apart from inbuilt wi-fi if it doesn't bring the price up too much.

I think I'll be aiming for somewhere between 450Mhz-480Mhz (so between 3.6Ghz and ~3.8Ghz).

This is the last part I need and then I think I will have finalised my build :D
 
x38 motherboards and the upcoming x48 motherboards from ASUS have built in Wi-Fi and should overclock to the speeds you want. If you can live without built in WiFi, then Asus, Gigabyte and Abit versions of those chipsets will also hit 3.8 no probs.
 
I decided to save a bit of money and go for PC2-8000 RAM. The FSB should still be enough for the OC I want.

I'll probably stick to a X38 motherboard though, the X48's are quite pricy. I think I'll order close to when the Q9540's are widely available as they'll be concrete reviews and recommendations floating around by then

I'm glad that X38's will go up to 480Mhz though, as it's within my price range. Can anyone second this though?
 
Your probably right, the X38 and PC2-8000 will get the job done.

As both the X48 and Q9450 are not out yet it's all speculation what will do what.

Badly need loads of reviews so we can make informed desisions on what hardware to buy.
 
From what I've been reading recently, most boards are being limited to 460-470 FSB (including P35s) when overclocking quads. Granted that's been mostly with 6400 memory as well. Then again we haven't seen non-ES versions of the yorkfields yet.

There will be a new J&W board coming out fairly soon which is X38, I'm currently waiting to see what the verdict is on that before I either go for that or the P5K-E (I expect them to be about the same price/overclocking wise, only difference for me will be PCI-E 2.0 for future-proofing).
 
So it seems X38 is a good choice for a motherboard for the Q9450 (or a high-end P35 I read in another thread), but what about any of the nforce boards? No one seems to be mentioning them, so are they a lot worse comparably?

The reason I ask is that whilst I'm not planning to SLI, I wont discount myself taking that path in a year or so.
 
A new chipset it may be outside my price range. I'm looking to spend about ~£125.

Am I right in thinking a high-end P35 board will get me at least 3.6 on the Q9450? If so, I'm considering this board:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-258-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913

Naturally I wont make a firm decision until some reviews come floating in, but I just want to know what sort of area in the market I can aim at and still get my desired overclock.
 
The cheapest X38 board on OCUK is £129, so I would think it would be better to go for a high end P35 than the cheapest X38? Especiailly as I'd like onboard wifi if I can get it.

The description doesnt if the above board (Asus P5K Premium) is PCI-E 2.0 or not? Does anyone know?

Also are there any nforce boards of a similar price and as good overclocking potential? I'd rather an SLI capable board rather than a Crossfire capable board if I can help it, but not if I have to compromise too much.

Thanks
 
The P35 boards are PCI-E 1.0 only - the main reason why I'm going for a X38 board now. Since everything has come down in price a lot after christmas its only £20 or so over my original budget to get one :)
 
Does anyone have any opinions on the nforce boards around the ~£120-140 mark regarding overclockability?
 
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Especiailly as I'd like onboard wifi if I can get it.
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abit does a PCI-E x1 wifi card (Airpace) that's £10-15.
Think that DLink do 1 too so I wouldn't let that rule out lots of mobos because they don't have it integrated.
 
hmm.. that is true. Thanks for that, completely forgot about that :)

Does no one really know much about the nforce solutions then? No one seems to be able to answer that question :confused:
 
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