Best mATX conroe capable board for sensible money

WJA96 said:
Could this be the one? I'm not holding my breath to be honest. ATI 1250 chipset? I'm not convinced, but I'm prepared to be convinced. I'll never learn :rolleyes:
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It's Fatality branded, so it's going to be expensive.

Nothing Wendelfied has been complete trash yet though, at least not to my recollection.
 
Tute said:
It's Fatality branded, so it's going to be expensive.
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The abit 650i board is Fatal1ty branded and it's £65 - cheaper than the ASUS 650i board.

Tute said:
Nothing Wendelfied has been complete trash yet though, at least not to my recollection.
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I agree it's generally top end of the Abit range - hopefully they are starting to realise that his name doesn't carry a price premium anymore.
 
Just annoying its taken this long for a potentially decent board to be released.

I got fed up of waiting and got a Shuttle instead, but I might be tempted by this if/when the Silverstone Sugo 03 case comes out, and it get good reviews. As I think the Temjin 08 case size would be a shock after using Shuttles for years.
 
Bane said:
Just annoying its taken this long for a potentially decent board to be released.

I got fed up of waiting and got a Shuttle instead, but I might be tempted by this if/when the Silverstone Sugo 03 case comes out, and it get good reviews. As I think the Temjin 08 case size would be a shock after using Shuttles for years.
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they have ruined the new sugo its got a lot bigger just a TJ08 with front fans Sugo SG01 evo with window imo
 
Anybody want to bet on the chances of there ever being a mATX board with Crossfire or SLi for Conroe?

I'd snap one up if there was.

I seem to remember EVGA did one for 939?
 
Tute said:
Anybody want to bet on the chances of there ever being a mATX board with Crossfire or SLi for Conroe?

I'd snap one up if there was.

I seem to remember EVGA did one for 939?
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And you can still have one if you look about a bit. No-one bought them, they were poor overclockers and they had lots of drawbacks. But the real reason no-one bought them was because there was no market for them. I would have to say it's unlikely anyone will make one again.

You can always buy the SLi shuttle. For £400!
 
Tute said:
What model? 939/754/775? :)
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775, G9657MA-8EKRS2H

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/motherboard_detail.aspx?ID=en-us0000202

Has everything I want, Quad Core ready, Vista Certified, PCI slots at the end of the board (so I can have my dual slot X1800 in PCI-X 16 slot, and my TV, WIFI card in the PCI slots). SPDIF on the backplate, proper RAID, NCQ, and all passive cooling too. It does have overclocking in the bios, but I havent played around with it yet.
Perfect for my Silverstone SUGO.
 
duncan888 said:
775, G9657MA-8EKRS2H

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/motherboard_detail.aspx?ID=en-us0000202

Has everything I want, Quad Core ready, Vista Certified, PCI slots at the end of the board (so I can have my dual slot X1800 in PCI-X 16 slot, and my TV, WIFI card in the PCI slots). SPDIF on the backplate, proper RAID, NCQ, and all passive cooling too. It does have overclocking in the bios, but I havent played around with it yet.
Perfect for my Silverstone SUGO.
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Just looking through the manual, that board looks like it might well overclock, the array of options is something not yet seen on a mATX Core2Duo board!

And there also appears to be Windows software for overclocking too.

I think the important bit is going to be whether it locks the PCI/PCIe buses.
 
Tute said:
Just looking through the manual, that board looks like it might well overclock, the array of options is something not yet seen on a mATX Core2Duo board!

And there also appears to be Windows software for overclocking too.

I think the important bit is going to be whether it locks the PCI/PCIe buses.
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It certainly locks the PCIe bus. Worst case scenario, it should clock with SATA HDD and nothing in the PCI slots. The next question is can I get one for tomorrow? :D
 
From having a quick look around the net, people seem more excited by the Fatal1ty F-I90HD.

The chipset on it is the RS600, brother to the RD600 (remember that chipset?) :D

And there are a lot of 965G boards floating around now, even in retail channels, yet few are making huge waves in the overclocking arena.
 
Tute said:
From having a quick look around the net, people seem more excited by the Fatal1ty F-I90HD.

The chipset on it is the RS600, brother to the RD600 (remember that chipset?) :D

And there are a lot of 965G boards floating around now, even in retail channels, yet few are making huge waves in the overclocking arena.
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Indeed. But RS600? I'm not convinced. The RD600 is pants by all accounts. And expensive as well.
 
Review of the G9657MA-8EKRS2H is here http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2133&cid=6&pg=1 doesnt look too good im afraid...

"Like most G965-based motherboards, the G9657MA-8EKRS2H isn't much of an overclocker at all. This is seemingly due to the fact that the memory controller isn't set to be asynchronous with FSB and also because its tied to the GMA X3000 IGP, which isn't quite tolerant of overclocking. Even using an external graphics card, we couldn't get the board to post at 270MHz. The G9657MA-8EKRS2H is a good stock board, but you can pretty much forget about tweaking it"
 
Mr_Flibble said:
Review of the G9657MA-8EKRS2H is here http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2133&cid=6&pg=1 doesnt look too good im afraid...

"Like most G965-based motherboards, the G9657MA-8EKRS2H isn't much of an overclocker at all. This is seemingly due to the fact that the memory controller isn't set to be asynchronous with FSB and also because its tied to the GMA X3000 IGP, which isn't quite tolerant of overclocking. Even using an external graphics card, we couldn't get the board to post at 270MHz. The G9657MA-8EKRS2H is a good stock board, but you can pretty much forget about tweaking it"
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I'm not too fussed about overclocking to be honest as the PC I built is mainly used as a Media center PC and web browsing.
I do gaming on my Xbox360.

Anyway, if you get a E4300, you can easily overclock it to a 2.4ghz, that a super cheap chip with the performace of a E6600
 
About the abit, small titbit of info from their description that I noticed,

Don't let the small size fool you, the Fatal1ty Performance F-I90HD is armed to the teeth with Intel® Quad-Core CPU support, a factory overclocked system bus, carefully selected high quality components, and enough upgrade paths to keep your system and digital media library happy for years to come.

Now the bold part is the interesting part, does that mean we may have a pre overclocked system bus for our cpus ont his thing?
 
jrodga2k5 said:
About the abit, small titbit of info from their description that I noticed,

Don't let the small size fool you, the Fatal1ty Performance F-I90HD is armed to the teeth with Intel® Quad-Core CPU support, a factory overclocked system bus, carefully selected high quality components, and enough upgrade paths to keep your system and digital media library happy for years to come.

Now the bold part is the interesting part, does that mean we may have a pre overclocked system bus for our cpus ont his thing?
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Yes - it's massively overclocked - 270FSB instead of 266. Woo hoo! I never need to overclock again. :rolleyes: It's another massive letdown board. What a surprise. Not.

This isn't aimed at anyone - I'm just REALLY frustrated.
 
From reading this thread I'm getting the impression that SFF + overclocking is a non-starter. That about it, or have I got the wrong end of the stick again?
 
FoxEye said:
From reading this thread I'm getting the impression that SFF + overclocking is a non-starter. That about it, or have I got the wrong end of the stick again?
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Core 2 Duo SFF + overclocking is a non starter.

There are plenty of good overclocking 754/939/AM2/478, even LGA775 Pentiums.

But as soon as you include a C2D into the spec, you lose the ability to overclock.
 
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