Conroe basic motherboard

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Hey...

I am just wondering, what is a nice and cheap motherboard for Conroe?

I dont require anything like Wifi onboard, I dont require SLI, and I sata is not really important to.

All I need is a nice basic motherboard, good overclocking features would be great, and obviously stable would be a bonus :D

Thanks if anyone has any info :)
 
Thanks,

Hmmm, got any idea when those boards are coming out?

BTW, was just playing with the fonts, never used anything other than the default one before :)[/FONT][/FONT]
 
ASRock 775 Twins HDTV R2.0 is £40 and available now from competitors. ASRock will have 4 boards that are Core 2 Duo compatible for 24/7/06. One based on the ATI R200 chipset, one based on the 945G, one based on the 965 chipset and one based on the old 865 chipset.

None will be more than £70.
 
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ASRock 775 Twins HDTV R2.0 is £40 and available now from competitors. ASRock will have 4 boards that are Core 2 Duo compatible for 24/7/06. One based on the ATI R200 chipset, one based on the 945G, one based on the 965 chipset and one based on the old 865 chipset.

None will be more than £70.
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the ASrock conroeXFIRE-eSATA2 is now in stock in uk for £56inc vat, has crossfire support and 800/1066fsb and locked pci buses as well. Looks pretty sweet for the price, not hardcore but decent value with potential.


Rob H
 
Wow... thats pretty impressive...

I HATE you guys... you make me wanna spend money :p

Seriously though, any word on its overclocking ability? I am trying to build a decent work station/secondary gaming machine...

Damn, forgot to mention :(

Does this motherboard support the CPU out of the box, I dont have any other 775's to flash it with otherwise :(
 
yes it does :)

ive used 2 of the asrocks twins

make sure its the Rev 2.0 and your fine, rev 1 doesnt do conroe no matter what

i'll let you know the crossfire one does tomorrow ;)
 
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This ASRock one looks pretty tempting, expecially condsidering the problems that people are having with the other boards. I'm thinking about getting one of these and they maybe upgrading once the prices have lowered and the glitches have been ironed out on the other ones.

Just a couple of things concerning me though, maybe I'm being dumb but I can't see how many regular PCI slots this mobo's got, can anyone confirm? Also only 2 USB ports, is that correct?
 
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3 regular pci slots

2 external usb ports

but has 3 internal headers (i can connect all 6 from the stacker though)

will give it a try later on :)
 
<maddness> said:
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3 regular pci slots

2 external usb ports

but has 3 internal headers (i can connect all 6 from the stacker though)

will give it a try later on :)
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Great, just found the full spec actually, I'm gonna go for this one, gotta be worth taking the chance for £56. Is it quiet?
 
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yeah its not got any active fans on it :confused: :D

it has dual channel support rather than single like its sister board (twinS)

i dont think it has any vcore adjustments though.
 
<maddness> said:
yeah its not got any active fans on it :confused: :D

it has dual channel support rather than single like its sister board (twinS)

i dont think it has any vcore adjustments though.
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Yeah sorry I'm a first build n00b so I'm just making sure.

I have the Asus 7600GS GPU, it's showing support for the 7600GT, will my GS still work in it as well?
 
yeah its got a standard pci-express port so any pci-express card will work.

works with crossfire as it has a AGI pci-express port? not sure about sli via hacked drivers though.
 
<maddness> said:
yeah its got a standard pci-express port so any pci-express card will work.

works with crossfire as it has a AGI pci-express port? not sure about sli via hacked drivers though.
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Excellent, just ordered - £64.53 all in, can't be bad :)
 
ok, up and running with the ASrock conroeXFIRE-eSATA2 board, its not bad to be honest,
it is a nice and solid board using the 945 chipset. Nice to see the Realtek NIC, and also doesnt have the annoying ULi chipset,
also you dont need a floppy drive at hand to install WinXP (TwinS does with SATA drives).
It has a usb backplate giving 4 ports from the back.

the bad:

Overclocking wise it wont budge past 300Mhz fsb no matter what, i didnt expect much in this department though

max fsb is 350 from bios, but clockgen through windows might help, cba trying lol.
There is not voltage adjustments on the vcore

Overall it is an impressive stopgap / cheap board which supports crossfire + should do SLi too, its worth the £14 over the TwinS in my opinion if size doesnt matter ;) .

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I am wondering if OCUK will ever stock these boards? I am hoping so :(

which is the best of the Asrock boards to go with, and finally what type of overclocks could I expect from a Conroe E6300?
 
<maddness> said:
ok, up and running with the ASrock conroeXFIRE-eSATA2 board, its not bad to be honest,
it is a nice and solid board using the 945 chipset. Nice to see the Realtek NIC, and also doesnt have the annoying ULi chipset,
also you dont need a floppy drive at hand to install WinXP (TwinS does with SATA drives).
It has a usb backplate giving 4 ports from the back.

the bad:

Overclocking wise it wont budge past 300Mhz fsb no matter what, i didnt expect much in this department though

max fsb is 350 from bios, but clockgen through windows might help, cba trying lol.
There is not voltage adjustments on the vcore

Overall it is an impressive stopgap / cheap board which supports crossfire + should do SLi too, its worth the £14 over the TwinS in my opinion if size doesnt matter ;) .

asrocl6vt.jpg
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Sounds perfect, not planning on majory overclocking so this'll do me fine.
 
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