Best value mobo to overclock E4300?

117 · 10 Jun 2007 at 13:23

Hi lads,

Have about £80 to spend on a motherboard to use with my e4300 and 3 gig of pc5400 ddr2/ Sapphire X1950XT. Ideally would like to be able to overclock to 2.5ghz plus. So far have considered the Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 and the Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3. Cheers.

Hedge · 10 Jun 2007 at 13:33

People seem to praise the ds3. i guess thats the board of choice

i have a p5ne-sli and thats agood board too, cost me 66 quid delivered

Shimmy · 10 Jun 2007 at 14:35

AlexWolf · 10 Jun 2007 at 14:44

How does the 965P_DS3 compare with the P35_DS3?

|22MB|karma · 10 Jun 2007 at 16:47

I have the E4300 and the 965P DS3P and I cant seem to unlink the memory from the FBS; at the moment Im at 272 FSB (highest I can get my ram 1100 Mhz).

some reason I just cant seem to go higher than 2.4.

Its_Me · 10 Jun 2007 at 17:06

avoid DS3 with E4300

|22MB|karma · 10 Jun 2007 at 19:10

Its_Me said:
avoid DS3 with E4300

lol atleast explain statement if your gonna say that.

steve258 · 10 Jun 2007 at 19:30

Its_Me said:
avoid DS3 with E4300

If you can't be bothered to explain then don't bother making the statement in the first place.

Its_Me · 10 Jun 2007 at 20:18

steve258 said:
If you can't be bothered to explain then don't bother making the statement in the first place.

whats it got to do with you - don't see anythign in this thread that you have posted.

SO DO NOT TROLL

Its_Me · 10 Jun 2007 at 20:20

|22MB|karma said:
lol atleast explain statement if your gonna say that.

Low FSB wall with the 4000 series CPU's, great for 6000 etc, just sadly something in the BIOS that limits overclockign with the 4.

better off with an Asus vanilla P5B or up your CPU choice.

steve258 · 10 Jun 2007 at 20:31

Its_Me said:
whats it got to do with you - don't see anythign in this thread that you have posted.

SO DO NOT TROLL

Was in a bad mood when I posted that - I apologise.

@ OP - as suggested you won't get anything better than P5B, DS3, Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 or the EVGA 650i.

The Nvidia chipset will allow you to run RAM unlinked to the FSB so might be worth considering if you're not sure if your ram can keep up.

|22MB|karma · 10 Jun 2007 at 20:33

I would be able to raise the FSB easily if only I could stop my memory going up with it.

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Its_Me · 10 Jun 2007 at 20:43

I have a good clocking E4300.

This is the list of boards that i have ran it in. (in order)

P5B vanilla (sold for £50inc)
Ds3 rev3.3 (purchased on special for £73 - returned under DSR)
Abit QuadGT (purchased for local comp shop for £140)
P5N-e SLI (current, Bgrade item)

In truth I should never have sold my P5B, but I thought the DS3 was a good price/feature upgrade.

The very best board was without doubt the Abit QuadGT, but got a good offer for that so as a temp measure I got a Bgrade P5N-e (best £35 spent) and Im waiting for the Intel price drops for quads, and the X38 QuadGT board.

IMHO opinion the best combo would be:

DS3 rev3.3 & E6320. (around £180)

if you just can't make that with your budget then.

E4300 & P5B vanilla. (around £150)

|22MB|karma · 10 Jun 2007 at 21:01

You seem to have experiance, can you explain to me what I need to do with my DS3P to stop my memory going up with the FSB?

I believe its called unlinking?

BUFF · 10 Jun 2007 at 21:25

you can't do that with the 965 chipset.
Best that you can do is run 1:1.

117 · 11 Jun 2007 at 07:31

Decided to go with the Abit Fatality FP-IN9, I appreciate all the advice guys. Hopefully should work well as my experience with Abit boards has been good in the past.

Its_Me · 11 Jun 2007 at 15:20

117 said:
Decided to go with the Abit Fatality FP-IN9, I appreciate all the advice guys. Hopefully should work well as my experience with Abit boards has been good in the past.

they went through a bad patch too, but I am pleased they seem to have turned it around.

I'm sure you will be happy.

BUT, if i had known you would consider a 650i chipset, then I would have recomnded this board , or possibly the Asus P5N-e. They difference between them is minimal. But they do allow memory to be run totaly seperate from the CPU so you can maximise your Overclock

good luck.

pastymuncher · 11 Jun 2007 at 15:36

117 said:
Decided to go with the Abit Fatality FP-IN9, I appreciate all the advice guys. Hopefully should work well as my experience with Abit boards has been good in the past.

You may regret that. I had one when they were launched and returned it within 5 days under the DSR's as it was so damn buggy and was unuseable. I really hope they have fixed the problems by now but it has certainly put me off ever buying Abit boards again. I would have gone for the Asus P5N-E Sli for a 650i based board.

I got my DS3P after i returned the Abit and i must say that this is the easiest overclocking rig i have ever built. You cannot unlink the ram from the fsb but if you have fast decent ram it should'nt be a problem.