775 Board Under £50 (DDR2 1066, Good OC Potential)

danza · 26 Oct 2010 at 17:48

As per title really.

I'm 95% sure after replacing my 'faulty' Geil RAM that my mobo is at fault as well (Asus P5K-VM).

I'm not really sure what I'm looking at TBH, such as what chipset to go for etc. I currently have an E6850 at stock 3GHz, but hope to get a Q6600 in the near future and get that up to ~3GHz. The memory I'm using is OCZ Platinum PC8500, but not sure if that matters (voltages?).

I don't care about OB sound/video so whether it has this or not is of no concern. I'll be buying new.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

danza · 26 Oct 2010 at 18:04

I'm currently looking at the Asus P5Q SE Plus (a bit out of budget), is this meant to be a good board compared with others?

rickh · 26 Oct 2010 at 18:24

If you can avoid buying s775 parts then I would sell it all and get either an i3 or i5 build.

If you want to stick with s775 then I would choose this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-221-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1490

Overclock very well for the price (3ghz will be very easy for it on any cpu) & IMO no point spending lots on a 'premium' 775 board.

danza · 26 Oct 2010 at 19:07

Cheers for the reply.

I probably should've thought to mention I'd like 4 memory slots (may add an extra 4gb at some point).

I'd love to go i3/5/7 but really can't afford it (and I tend to stay at least a couple of hardware generations behind everyone else - cheaper that way!

).

rickh · 26 Oct 2010 at 20:38

If you're shopping on ocuk then your choices have become very limited if you need 4 ram slots..

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=5&subid=1155