Best mATX conroe capable board for sensible money

Hi

Have you seen this New (I think it's a mATX) board From Asrock:

4Core1333-DVI/H, based on ATI™ Radeon® Xpress 1250 and ATI™ SB600 chipsets, is compatible with all FSB1333/1066/800/533MHz CPUs, supports Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® XE / Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 / Celeron® D, Quad Core Kentsfield processors.

4Core1333-DVIH.jpg


http://www.ocworkbench.com/2007/asrock/cebit/g1.htm

I want one ! :D
 
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Well, we know 2 things about it - it uses the same chipset as the new Abit (that does 350MHz FSB on a 1066 strap) and it has a 1333 strap, so you would expect at least 50% headroom which would say to me that 400FSB might, at last, be possible. If you use the conductive pencil mod on a 266MHz part rather than the 200MHz E4300, the board will boot at 333MHz/1333MHz so we may, at last, have a decent overclocking mATX motherboard - but once again, I'm not holding my breath!

ASRock do seem to be making some good stuff at the moment. Certainly more stuff I'm prepared to buy that many other motherboard manufacturers.
 
Im see they still haven't moved that stupid power connector to a better position. :rolleyes:

[Edit] Is that Crossfire I see? There certainly looks to be two PCIe x16 slots. :D :D :D
 
Tute said:
Im see they still haven't moved that stupid power connector to a better position. :rolleyes:

[Edit] Is that Crossfire I see? There certainly looks to be two PCIe x16 slots. :D :D :D
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for a physics card, i think thats what you call it.
 
No more word on the mATX front then guys?

That asrock board looks nice, cant see them letting you do crossfire though, especially on a budget board like that.

Why cant ASUS or DFI release a mint mATX conroe board, theres such a market waiting for one!
 
Rick_Barnes said:
I think this one has been factory clocked.


what do you mean by this?
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Well, let's say you want to run a CPU at 1333 but the chipset only actually supports 1066, then you can build-in a fake 1333 strap by overclocking the 1066 strap. That's what has been done here. The PCI bus has been hiked to 115 to allow it to run at 1333 so there will be very little overclocking beyond 1333QFSB.

The VIA chipset boards have been doing this for several months to allow them to support 1066QFSB processors on the older 800MHZ QFSB chipsets.

It's not our holy grail though :(

The grail-board is micro-ATX, 4 DDR2 slots, native 1333 strap, 600/2400 FSB/QFSB, two or more 16x PCIe busses and if you lick it, it tastes like good beer. :D
 
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