Conroe Mobo's Expensive for a reason?

kmistry · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:23

I might just be being dense but why are the Conroe motherboards so expensive, can we expect to see any in the region of around £60-90, if so which make?

Thanks in advance

EDIT: I've just seen an Intel one for 88 inc VAT, but are these any good, as im going to be going pentium for the first time when i upgrade my computer.....

WJA96 · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:32

In the beginning they all use the high-end chipsets so they are expensive.

But if you're not fussed about loads of overclocking options then;

ASRock 775 TWINS HDTV R2.0 is £40 Incl. (I like it, it will give a decent overclock on stock volts, but there is no Vcore option in the BIOS)

This uses the ATI chipset

and

MSI PM8PM will support Core Duo with a BIOS upgrade, but there are no overclocking options at all according to the manual. - £32 Incl.! but it's a VIA chipset.

fenderbass86 · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:35

I'm waiting for the MSI/Epox 965 chipsets or the nForce5 range. Should be less than £90.

kmistry · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:40

Wicked, thanks for the swift replies guys

UKTopGun · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:50

What im looking for is a board for around £70 which will let me overclock the E6600 to around 3.0Ghz.

gam3r · 5 Jul 2006 at 21:23

WJA96 said:
ASRock 775 TWINS HDTV R2.0 is £40 Incl. (I like it, it will give a decent overclock on stock volts, but there is no Vcore option in the BIOS)

There is a voltmod if your brave enough to do it

nikebee · 6 Jul 2006 at 02:17

kmistry said:
EDIT: I've just seen an Intel one for 88 inc VAT, but are these any good, as im going to be going pentium for the first time when i upgrade my computer.....

the intel ones are good yes

infact, most of the *classic* Conroe overclocks were done on the Intel "BadAxe" motherboard!

oh... and they're not pentium's any more

they're Core 2 Duo's (Conroe's)