Best C2D mobo for overclocking?

ledbythereaper

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Planning on upgrading my Athlon 2500 to a E6400, however as Abit don't make a C2D version of the NF7 :( I'm not sure what to get, I've been recommended the Asus P5 board with wireless and as DFi don't have any lanparty boards out for C2D can anyone think of a better board?
 
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I'm with Concorde Rules on that selection of boards - I went fo rthe Gigabyte DS4 myself. The only downer is that there is no RAM divider, so you need really good, fast RAM.
 
I'm an ex-Abit user now and am more than happy with Gigabyte DS4.
I'm using FAH, 1 on my GPU and 1 on my CPU, watching TV.Way too impressed with my E6300 now @3.01Ghz and I haven't much of a clue with overclocking, just followed the DS4 guide here.
 
I went with the Gigabyte DS3 but as WJA96 says, the lack of a RAM divider is a real pain in the rear. This is the 1st gigabyte board ive ever had, for nearly 5 years all i ever had was asus
 
I've been watching for the new nvidia based boards, gibbo keeps hinting at them, anyone got any ideas when they going to hit the shelves? Gibbo was also nodding at 500fsb :P
 
Concorde Rules said:
Asus P5B Deluxe. GB DS3/4. Asus P5W DH.

Best boards out atm.

I'd personally by the P5B D :)
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Personally i went DS4 and put the xtra 40 i saved from buying asus towards getting better ram ...Still a great board...but if you got money to waste by all means get the Asus. :)
 
Madwelsh said:
I've been watching for the new nvidia based boards, gibbo keeps hinting at them, anyone got any ideas when they going to hit the shelves? Gibbo was also nodding at 500fsb :P
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8th of this month, only 4 days away! :D
 
Dureth said:
The new nForce boards are out the same day :P
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lol, i have always maintained that 680i is being dwarfed by G80 because of that :o imo they are both pretty significant
 
Madwelsh said:
I've been watching for the new nvidia based boards, gibbo keeps hinting at them, anyone got any ideas when they going to hit the shelves? Gibbo was also nodding at 500fsb :P
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The P5NSLi maxes out at 450, but you can't get there because of the other restrictions. The P5N32SLi Deluxe also maxes out at 450, but that won't do it either. What do we know about NVidia BIOS's? - they are not that good for overclocking. I wouldn't get too excited until I read a couple of reviews by people on here, although even those quite sometimes get it wrong.

There were a whole bunch of people over on the SFF forum hyping up the P5B-VM mATX board as the next big thing for overclocking C2D on a microATX platform. It turned out to be one of the worst overclocking boards known to man.

If you don't need SLi then Concorde Rules original choices are still the pick of the bunch, and are quite likely to remain so after the 680SLi boards are released as these are proven good boards. Look at the amount of threads dedicated to dragging the last few MHz out the DS3/DS4/P5 series boards and you'll see how well people are doing with those. SLi is a minority sport, I'm a keen player, but I accept that as long as I'm using SLi I cannot get a huge overclock at the moment.
 
I hear on these forums that the ds3, ds4, p5b deluxe, p5wdh etc are all good boards, whereas on some other forums I am hearing that the AW9D MAX is a great board but it doesn't seem as popular here.

Jonny
 
ledbythereaper said:
Would this be NForce6? SLi support for C2D?
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There are already at least 5 boards that support natively SLi with Core2Duo.

ASUS P5NSLi
ASUS P5N32SLi Deluxe SE
ASUS P5N32SLi Premium WiFi/AP
ECS NFORCE 570 SLIT-A (V5.1)
Foxconn NF4SLI7AA-8EKRS2


Many S775 Crossfire boards support SLi with the hacked drivers.
 
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