Board for around £80

Nicksy

Nicksy

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Looking for the best board with overclocking potential for around £80.
I plan to get an e7300 or e8200 with 4gb of ocz6400.

Dont need dual gfx cards just a good clocking board.
 
Cheers mate. Thats the one I had my eye one in this price range.
Is it a decent board? Best available at this price?
cheers
 
Not a lot of choice at that price. Gigabyte have been solid performers in that bracket since the P965 boards, good features, good bios, it's difficult to go wrong with them. Better layout than the similarly priced Asus boards.
 
Not a lot of choice at that price range. Might be able to get a Asus P5K-E for that, maybe second hand.

IMO, P35 chipset is the way to go though, meets all your needs. :)
 
Nicksy said:
Best available at this price?
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No one can ever answer a question like that! :p

Before the price hikes on everything a few months back there was quite a lot of choice for a £80 motherboard but now they are nearly all an extra £30 :(

I think if I had a strict budget of £80 I would be buying a quality used P45 Express chipset or perhaps a new P43 Express based mobo.

If your buying some DDR2 then splash a bit extra for something faster (i.e PC2-8500), a fast Processor and Fast system BUS can make good use of fast memory also! :)
 
littlepuppy said:
DIdnt gigabyte do a really nice p31 board, not sure if ocuk have it in stock, they definatly used to and it was really cheap..
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The latest version is the EP31 DS3L and you can find them for around £50 if you look hard enough. They are a fantastic little board and i was really dissapointed to see no cheap P4* series boards. I had a E2180 to 3.6Ghz on one of these.
 
Am I right in thinking that the only difference between the Intel® P45 Express Chipset and the Intel® P43 Express Chipset is the latter lacks support for Crossfire?

If that's the case it would be good to see what Intel® P43 Express boards fall near the £80 mark for Budget/Single GPU machines . . .
 
I'm not sure about that 95thrifles, the P45 runs crossfire just fine, also where are you getting your info that the P45 clocks better than the P43 please? :)
 
Yep p45 supports crossfire @8x per lane, i think the difference between full x16 and x8 would be minimal, probly a few fps.
 
Yeah sorry I was meaning it doesnt support native crossfire
And it just seems to be general concensus on these forums that the P45 chipset OC's better than P43 or lower
 
The P45 does support native Crossfire? :)

Your thinking of the high end X38/X48 chipset where both PCI-E 2.0 slots operate at the full 16x whereas on the P45 they operate at PCI-E 2.0 8x (which is the same as PCI-E 1.0 16x).

It's been shown that X38/x48 don't really come into their own until you Crossfire two really phat cards (like HD4870x2) and again mainly at the higher screen resolutions!

re P45 vs P43 I'm aware that the former overclocks great but not seen any results from a P43 board in the hands of a skilled overclocker? would be interested to see what the score is myself as not everyone wants a Crossfire set-up . . . so the P43 *may* be a great solution for a gamer on a budget, I will look into it!
 
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