~£100 Motherboard

manjuice · 7 Dec 2008 at 23:23

My friend's motherboard has died.
What's the best motherboard out there for around £70-£100, nothing fancy, just something reliable. He doesn't overclock.

Here are some of the hardware he has:

E6850
4 x 1GB Geil 6400 DDR2 RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4870

Thanks,

OneTime · 8 Dec 2008 at 00:21

2 choices:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...cket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Paul2506 · 8 Dec 2008 at 12:05

Imo the P5Q Pro

OneTime · 8 Dec 2008 at 12:18

Pro is over budget.

Slashiem · 8 Dec 2008 at 12:27

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

eiko_magami · 8 Dec 2008 at 14:27

any of the listed are good boards. the P5Q is the most popular choice. not going to be anything between them if your not overclocking.

coupe69 · 8 Dec 2008 at 14:48

Abit IX48-GT3 Hotfoot Intel X48 for £91.99

Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5 Intel X48 for £91.99

MSI X48C Platinum Intel X48 for £91.99

Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5 Intel P45 £91.99

Some bargains to be had there.

manjuice · 8 Dec 2008 at 16:06

coupe69 said:
Abit IX48-GT3 Hotfoot Intel X48 for £91.99

Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5 Intel X48 for £91.99

MSI X48C Platinum Intel X48 for £91.99

Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5 Intel P45 £91.99

Some bargains to be had there.

My friend won't be interested in B-Grade as his Asus Striker was B-Grade and he only had it for 7 months.

coupe69 · 8 Dec 2008 at 17:07

tchan_4 said:
My friend won't be interested in B-Grade as his Asus Striker was B-Grade and he only had it for 7 months.

Fair enough, although I have used a few b grade motherboards from ocuk for friends builds and not had a problem yet. I would say he was just unlucky and nothing to do with the fact it was b grade.