Best mATX conroe capable board for sensible money

Massive Attack · 19 Sep 2006 at 13:24

just wondering is that E6500 in your sig a typo of an E6600

prism · 19 Sep 2006 at 13:52

Found something, but the program might need an update too find the correct PLL. http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php
Shows just what we want.

prism · 19 Sep 2006 at 13:53

Massive Attack said:
just wondering is that E6500 in your sig a typo of an E6600

Yes it is

Will edit it signature. thnx. But it's a E6400, not E6600.

Massive Attack · 19 Sep 2006 at 20:58

prism said:
Found something, but the program might need an update too find the correct PLL. http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php
Shows just what we want.

yeah just had a look and my mobo isnt supported, BTW did u get yours today

Massive Attack · 19 Sep 2006 at 21:46

so far im really disapointed with the Asus P5B-VM and i advise that anyone interested in it forget about it, its worse than my previous gigabyte 945pl mobo

anyone know when the decent ones are coming

Tute · 19 Sep 2006 at 23:33

Massive Attack said:
so far im really disapointed with the Asus P5B-VM and i advise that anyone interested in it forget about it, its worse than my previous gigabyte 945pl mobo anyone know when the decent ones are coming

What reasons?

prism · 19 Sep 2006 at 23:42

Didn't get my stuff in today. Tomorrow then (wednesday).
Pump should arrive on thursday then, so can finally build this case together this weekend.

Sucky about the P5B-VM turning out so bad. Hopefully the new Gigabyte G965 or P965 mATX board will be better.

prism · 19 Sep 2006 at 23:58

I created a post on the Asus forums. Hopefully someone can give some decent answers.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20060920065657231&board_id=1&model=P5B-VM&SLanguage=en-us
Might need to be registered too see the link.

Massive Attack · 20 Sep 2006 at 11:15

Tute said:
What reasons?

well firstly my ide channel is borked, im not RMA ing as these boards take annoying amounts of time to come from asus, when i first got it it refused to boot said somthing about a fatal error so the system halted, This board cost me £87 for a board thats no better at overclocking than a £40 gigabyte one i had, the chipset temperatures are unusally high even though i have a 60x25mm on the northbridge and a 40x10mm on the south bridge, the list goes on.... i will be ditching this board ASAP when the newer decent MATX boards arrive, although there was one good thing and that is that asus released a new bios raising the fsb from 400 to 500 which is completely ****** useless as there is no pci lock so well done to asus

prism · 20 Sep 2006 at 12:10

Have you also tried overclocking without any PCI device?
Might need to disable the onboard sound, but I am curious how overclocking goed then, since there is a PCI-E lock?

Massive Attack · 20 Sep 2006 at 15:32

prism said:
Have you also tried overclocking without any PCI device?
Might need to disable the onboard sound, but I am curious how overclocking goed then, since there is a PCI-E lock?

no i havent m8 i have to use the on board audion and i have a pci tv card

prism · 20 Sep 2006 at 15:45

Ok, I will do it when I get too it.
Will post it here ofcourse.

prism · 20 Sep 2006 at 15:48

Just read on a Dutch site that the ATI RD600 and NVidia 590 SLI chipsets will be out in october.
If Asus hasn't made a new BIOS before that, I will look for a RD600 or 590 motherboard. Hopefully those will have proper BIOS features.

Massive Attack · 20 Sep 2006 at 22:31

prism said:
Just read on a Dutch site that the ATI RD600 and NVidia 590 SLI chipsets will be out in october.
If Asus hasn't made a new BIOS before that, I will look for a RD600 or 590 motherboard. Hopefully those will have proper BIOS features.

Anychance of an SLI MATX coming out

prism · 20 Sep 2006 at 22:35

It didn't say. The article didn't mention anything on board sizes, just that the chipsets are coming in october.

Massive Attack · 20 Sep 2006 at 23:13

prism said:
It didn't say. The article didn't mention anything on board sizes, just that the chipsets are coming in october.

hopefully we will see a nice nvidia chipset on micro atx

WJA96 · 20 Sep 2006 at 23:14

Massive Attack said:
Anychance of an SLI MATX coming out

I really doubt anyone will do this again. The last one that was launched (the only SLi mATX motherboard to date) sold 59 pieces in the UK according to the distributor. That's not a market worth having.

Massive Attack · 21 Sep 2006 at 00:00

WJA96 said:
I really doubt anyone will do this again. The last one that was launched (the only SLi mATX motherboard to date) sold 59 pieces in the UK according to the distributor. That's not a market worth having.

strange i would have thought they would have sold a lot more as shuttle do an sli barbone so selling an matx sli board would give people more chioce, ok we will drop the sli but i take it there is going to be an Nforce 570/590 matx board

Rick_Barnes · 22 Sep 2006 at 19:39

stupid Anandtech and their slow review!! i want to buy my new mATX mobo now!

WJA96 · 23 Sep 2006 at 06:46

Massive Attack said:
strange i would have thought they would have sold a lot more as shuttle do an sli barbone so selling an matx sli board would give people more chioce, ok we will drop the sli but i take it there is going to be an Nforce 570/590 matx board

I'd be really interested to know how many of those £400 shuttles they actually sold. I'd reckon not an enormous number. Given that this thread started off with "I want a fully tricked out mATX board that I can overclock for £40 or so", I'd say the market for mATX SLi is limited as most people want to build a small cheap PC or an HTPC where the last thing you need is a powerful graphics card. I'm running an ASUS P5NSLi which is the only game in town under £100 at the moment, and they're hardly flying off the shelves (albeit not helped by an erroneous review that said they didn't clock well :rolleyes:

).