Cheap Core 2 Duo Mobo for OC'n!

jrodga2k5 · 6 May 2007 at 17:30

As title guys, im sick of this Asus P5LD2-SE motherboard as it has only the 945 chipset and hence is not great for overclocking at all! It hits a limit @ 2.45Ghz and I am lookin for a cheap alternative to try and push to the glorious 3Ghz mark! Does anyone have any suggestions? and also what boards should I look out for?

Cheers

Cob · 6 May 2007 at 17:36

The Gigabyte 965P S3 at £70 is probably as cheap as it gets. It's the exact same as the DS3 except it doesn't have solid capacitors.

Tarty · 7 May 2007 at 09:15

I'm at the same sorta problem, been looking at the Asus P5N-E 650 and the DS3 personally, and from reading a load of reviews there's not much to pick between them. Personally always had an Asus mobo, but apart from that I'm lost

MeatLoaf · 7 May 2007 at 09:20

Tarty said:
I'm at the same sorta problem, been looking at the Asus P5N-E 650 and the DS3 personally, and from reading a load of reviews there's not much to pick between them. Personally always had an Asus mobo, but apart from that I'm lost

Depends if you will need SLI or not - If you do get the asus, if not go for the DS3

timmorris · 8 May 2007 at 14:30

What about the Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9?

Is the 650i chipset particularly good for clocking? Is the 680i any better?

Tim

Cob · 8 May 2007 at 14:35

The 650i chipset is grand. Tho most people are buying the ASUS P5N-E 650i board.

timmorris · 8 May 2007 at 18:12

Cob said:
The 650i chipset is grand. Tho most people are buying the ASUS P5N-E 650i board.

Even though I have a 550W PSU I get PSU related shutdowns when running repeated 3DMark tests on my P5N32-SLI DELUXE which I didn't get with the DFI Lanparty UT with X2 (which itself draws more power) which leads me to wonder whether the board is being starved of power.

The DFI had a drive connector on it in addition to the standard 24V connector for use when running SLI as does the Fatal1ty. That's what drew me to it initially. It might be a red herring, but I can use the same PSU and graphics cards with a different mainboard and they run 3DMark all day.

Tim

timmorris · 8 May 2007 at 19:41

Well, Well, Well. I'm involved in beta testing some home cinema calibration software. One of the authors works at NVidia and wrote the memory controller code on the 650i. Apparently the optimised code is one of the reasons it clocks so well.

Does the Zalmann passive heatsink fit on the Fatal1ty?

Tim