Most powerful 775 Mobo and why?

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Just wondering really.

I wont go waffling on yet, I just want to know what the most powerful and best S775 Motherboard on the market is?

I would also like to know any reasons why this is too if possible?

Thanks!
 
P45 based boards tend to be the preferred route and the best tend to be the Asus P5Q Pro series and Gigabyte EP45 Extreme although these were quite hard to get hold of. All of these are good stable boards and overclocking demons.

Most powerful board does'nt really come into it as the cpu and gpu are what does most of the work. One decent board is much the same as another. The main differences are that P45 chipsets could only do crossfire at 8x/8x which is enough for normal use. If you had a pair of dual GPU cards then ideally you need a board with full speed pci-e lanes in which case you needed a X38/X48 chipset based board. These however do not clock the 45nm quads as well as a P45 chipset board.
 
Yes I know that the CPU/GPU do the work, and I know that the Mobo should not make THAT much difference, but I also know that this is NOT always true... Some boards can affect the performance of a system.

I have a couple of P45 Boards... Actually, among the most unresponsive PCs is a P45 Chipset, so, I will check that out... I may be wrong but its also the only 775 board I have, that I am running DDR3 on and Im sure thats a P45 Chipset?

The most responsive PCs that I have, are the AMD systems... both Gigabyte ATI Chipset boards, and the DS4 - 965 Chipset although in all honesty I have not compared them... Im only going purely by feeling responsiveness.

P5Q and EP45

Actually do I have an EP45 ? - Im sure I saw EP45 on a Mobo box just now actually?

Its often hard to remember when you have a load of PCs - I should lose a few and just concentrate on one really good one.
 
Nope,. my bad.

The sluggish Mobo is a P35C DS3R

Its got 2x1GB DDR3 and its running an E6420 in Win7-64

Its sluggish as hell, but once its all in, its ok... Its just unresponsive and lags like hell.

For example, right clicking on My Computer to bring up the info took 7 or 8 seconds. Thats bad... But yet if you are willing to put up with that kind of sluggyness, it plays Quake 4, UT2007 and Asassins Creed etc all perfectly fine.

I need to have a play... Just not bothered cos its only used by my 13yo lad and I need all the help I can get cos he is a better gamer than I, and Im not having that.

hehe
 
The EVGA nForce 680i motherboard comes to mind. Why? This was the enthusiast and top end board to have at the time. I'm sure if you read some reviews you'll see what I;m talking about. Another good board is the Asus P5N32-E SLi. It's up there with the other 775 boards but was a bit cheaper. Thats the board I have and it's still running great but since I've just built a new system I'll be parting with it soon.
 
The EVGA 680i... What like this one? LOL

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=19653719#post19653719

Asus P5N32-SLI is another one I had, or rather another 2 I had. Great boards but like most Asus, I find them to be complete junk and they didnt last me long at all. The one and only Asus that I had that did last was the A8N-SLI... Loved that board to bits. Would still use it if I still had it.... But alas its 939 anyway and I have no 939 setups anymore.
 
DFI
Yes, DFI are indeed a nice make, although in all honesty, my last DFI was my LanParty 250UT and thats an NForce 3 board... Its got a Newcastle 3000 in that... I have always wanted a Clawhammer 3700 to throw into it, but never found one for an acceptable price. I have given it to a mate down the road and thats all UV'ed up so it looks a right visual whore, and even though it AGP, 2GB RAM XP64 its still a very capable setup. Unless he has reet the BIOS, thats probab;y still clocked to 2.6 as we speak.

I'd definitely look at DFI yes.

Asus
I have had a number of Asus boards. Considering the huge number of failures that I have had against the only one that ever survived for long, I would have to say that I would prefer to avoid them.
 
My P35C DS3R is better in some ways than the IP35 Pro that I have!
Running a E5400 with 2 gig of DDR2 ram and HD4850, it is not sluggish at all (It was a bit until I changed the slow HDD)
 
Yes, its possibly the HD thats being used in that, thats causing it to be sluggish.
Its an old WD200.

Oh, confession time... I do still have one Asus board... Its my daughters M2N68 Plus.

I do like this board, however only one RAM slot works, so thats got a 2GB stick in and the O/B LAN and one of the PCI slots are dead, so that only shows my luck with ASUS.
 
Had an evga 680i a1 here, great with dual cores, but very poor with quads. Couldnt get any more than 3.0ghz from a q6600. Same cpu done 3.8ghz in an asus p45 p5q deluxe. The chipsets also ran very hot on the 680i, the stock thermal paste application was woeful to say the least. I replaced it with as ceramique, dropped temps by 10c.
 
setter said:
Had an evga 680i a1 here, great with dual cores, but very poor with quads. Couldnt get any more than 3.0ghz from a q6600. Same cpu done 3.8ghz in an asus p45 p5q deluxe. The chipsets also ran very hot on the 680i, the stock thermal paste application was woeful to say the least. I replaced it with as ceramique, dropped temps by 10c.
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Oh agreed on that. I have also reapplied better paste. the heatsink itself I think is fine and a bit funky so Im happy with that.

Im not going to bother with heavy overclocking on it either... Tweak here and there sure, but not overclocking. I no longer bother because I find that all CPUs are so much faster these days that I am more than happy with them.

one of my testers is only a 1.8Ghz E6300 and without actually comparing them, its no slower than my Q6600 tester, so all the LAN PCs ( Trying to sound like I have loads of them ) are all stock with just minor tweaks.

Dont get me wrong... Im not saying that I dont because I still like to know how far I can go with my kit some times, but Im not like I used to be... Plus I cannot afford it much anymore either, so now I have to justify paying for my PC bits to the wife should so I dont risk it these days.

madsin said:
Motherboard Name DFI LANParty DK P45-T2RS Plus.
Trust me its a rock of a board.
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Yes, I also like DFI Boards too!

I still got an old NF3 LanParty UT 250GB around with a Newcastle 3000 that I ran at 2.6 for a fair while. I like that board. Been rock for me during our time together.
 
Asus Striker II Extreme - ultimate motherboard for 775 socket. I've had one and I was pleased to meet its features. Overclocking was easy and BIOS settings includes plenty of options (like each memory slot voltage, for example). Totally exotic. If you get one - be prepared it's picky regarding to memory sticks (DDR3). The best way to complete it - is to calculate the CPU o/c potential, for example if you wish to o/c E8400 upto 4.28 GHz (9x475) you have to get memory capable to work at 1900 MHz (4x475, because Intel CPUs are QPB = quad pumped bus which means they work internally 4x faster than FSB) to have maximum performance (synced & linked). 1900 MHz is Corsair Dominator (not GT) 2000 - if you will be so lucky to get them, or some Mushkin models AFAIR.
I've got MSI P67A-GD65 mobo now and I've noticed its SATA2 performance is almost the same that S2E offered me some time ago, except AHCI support which gives 2x better performance in 4KQD32 reads (nForce chipset doesn't support AHCI).
Plenty of additions makes S2E a "queen" of s775 mobos in my opinion.
 
biuro74 said:
Asus Striker II Extreme - ultimate motherboard for 775 socket. I've had one and I was pleased to meet its features.
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There is/was? one on the MM for 85ish and I was tempted. The board is cracking and almost faultless bar the nforce storage controller

FatRakoon said:
Its sluggish as hell, but once its all in, its ok... Its just unresponsive and lags like hell.

For example, right clicking on My Computer to bring up the info took 7 or 8 seconds.
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Your problem is not the hardware, it's the software - If you can't tune windows go for a reinstall.

As above, I'm still running on a 4 year old p35 - Super pi is 13secs. Windows 7 is very well tuned - right context menus have been registry pruned and seriously I'm still loving this box even without AHCI its still got balls.

Here is your upgrade path if you want to stay with this dead socket

Tune windows 7(?)-> q9550 -> p5q -> Striker II
 
Cheeky sod.

My main PC is a gigabyte X58 and I7 960.

I am lucky enough to have extended my home purely for housing a further 7 PCs in a LAN for me and my kids and their mates. These are all 775 / AM2

You call it a dead socket, but this is a ridiculous proposal - Even my slowest LAN PC still plays games just fine. Maybe not as well as my best, but to call it a dead socket is sad.

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Oh, and it was the HD in the end... I have given it one of the 320GB Drives and its running sweet as a nut now.
 
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Hah ! Not being cheeky or patronizing mate - It's just the way I write 'em, you should know that from my posts by now :D

Well as I said I'm on 775 and have no worries at all but it is a dead socket. CPU upgrades are pricey along with the RAM and since we're fast approaching 50% slower clock per clock speed than current gen, time left on this socket is fast disappearing. I would give it another 2 years tops.

But I totally agree with you - The hardware at the moment works very well - the problem is as always the software.
 
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