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Whats wrong with the Asus P5VD2-MX mATX motherboard? Considering its half the price of the PB5, but it still supports conroe. Does it not come with any overclocking options of something?
Best mATX conroe capable board for sensible money
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But from what is posted in this thread the PB5 doesnt have a working PCI lock either.Tute said:
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No, the answer to the question you actually asked is 'There is nothing wrong with it. It's a very good motherboard, but the ASRock has an Intel chipset and that's likely to be faster. more stable and a better long-term bet than the VIA chipset on the ASUS'.
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Cheers. The ASRock does look good for only a tenner more.WJA96 said:
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Tute said:And my answer is:
"It's late and i've spent most of the day on the train. It's not my fault if I can't read properly and thought he was asking about the P5B-VM, not the P5VD2."
I know the feeling. I completely misread someone else's post and had to go back and heavily edit earlier
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Give me mATX mobos supporting Overclocking, Conroe, PCI-E Graphics
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!!
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!!
Despite me saying i'm going to be ordering soon many times in this thread, I haven't yet put in my order!
Still waiting for that perfect mATX board, i'm so desperate to get the system in a Sugo or similar that i'm even considering going AM2 or 939 just to get the board I want.
My next move is to wait for Anandtech's roundup on mATX boards. It should be with us in the next 4-5 days, and i'll make my decisions based on that.
As i've said, I won't use Conroe if Intel aren't going to provide suitable boards. I doubt i'd notice any real-world difference between an X2 and a Conroe anyway, especially if I have an X1800XT in my case or similar.
Still waiting for that perfect mATX board, i'm so desperate to get the system in a Sugo or similar that i'm even considering going AM2 or 939 just to get the board I want.
My next move is to wait for Anandtech's roundup on mATX boards. It should be with us in the next 4-5 days, and i'll make my decisions based on that.
As i've said, I won't use Conroe if Intel aren't going to provide suitable boards. I doubt i'd notice any real-world difference between an X2 and a Conroe anyway, especially if I have an X1800XT in my case or similar.
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same here i have a sugo with a matx board and a amd 3200 want to upgrade but do i go 4000 single 3800x2 or conroe 6300 is it
i game a fair bit you see and the conroe only has 1.86 ghz
but my current cpu is 2.0 i dont overclock so is that cheap asus a good board if you just want stability
how high are the intel coolers will they fit under the psu
is a conroe worth it if you dont overclock
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the questions
i game a fair bit you see and the conroe only has 1.86 ghz
but my current cpu is 2.0 i dont overclock so is that cheap asus a good board if you just want stability
how high are the intel coolers will they fit under the psu
is a conroe worth it if you dont overclock
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the questions
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Tute said:
I think that's a totally valid set of statements. Have you looked at the EVGA S939 mATX motherboard. It's NForce 4 with proper 2 x 16x PCIe slots and it clocks very well. It's about £85 delivered and that, paired up with a nice Athlon 64 would make a really excellent gaming machine.
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bigjonnyauk said:
Yes, but I think the ASRock is better value.
bigjonnyauk said:
Yes, the stock cooler will fit, but I would suggest you look at something better like a Silverstone Nitrogon NT03 or a Thermaltake Blue Orb.
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Given the gaming performance available from an X2 system at the price point, possibly not. You can get a retail packaged Athlon 64 4000 for £111 at the moment. That's a very fast processor for the money. Even looking at X2, you get a 3800+ retail for E6300 money, so if you are not overclocking, you might be better off going AMD, but the resale will be MUCH harder.
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FirebarUK said:
In what way? - I had one and I got about a 20% overclock on a 3700. I can't remember the exact numbers but I'll have a search about for the CPUz validation file link. That seemed OK to me at the time.
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FirebarUK said:
No, it has about 4 large step-ups on a menu, not a variable option like you usually get. So you have the choice of not applying enough volts or having a brown-trouser moment when it doesn't boot at the next step up.
Would you need to overclock an X2 3800 to get it to outperform an E6300 in games? I'm not sure you would.
WJA96 said:
I did look into that board, however i'm unlikely to go for something like that as at a guess, the cooling in an SLi system would be a total nightmare.
Anyway, if I was going to go multi-GPU, it'd be Crossfire, not SLi
Zalman CNPS8000. Quiet and low profile. Anything using a 120mm fan like the Blue Orb will require a slight modification to the case or fins. I think Yewen was/is in that situation and devised a nice mod to overcome the problem. Me, i'm not brave enough to start modding things!
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Tute said:Zalman CNPS8000. Quiet and low profile. Anything using a 120mm fan like the Blue Orb will require a slight modification to the case or fins. I think Yewen was/is in that situation and devised a nice mod to overcome the problem. Me, i'm not brave enough to start modding things!
I know exactly where Yewen got that case from
and I was running the same Blue orb in there that I'm using now. Motherboards vary.