Conroe motherboard - ABIT AW8D Motherboard

Mikey · 20 Jul 2006 at 17:33

Looking at one of these boards but with a few of getting a cheap non conroe chip to tie me over till money is better for a conroe chip.

Any thoughts?

TREE · 20 Jul 2006 at 17:37

get the gigabyte ga-g1975x turbo , according to tech support its going to have Conroe support with some new bios.

james32 · 21 Jul 2006 at 00:12

Mikey said:
Looking at one of these boards but with a few of getting a cheap non conroe chip to tie me over till money is better for a conroe chip.

Any thoughts?

not conroe ready that board

TREE said:
get the gigabyte ga-g1975x turbo , according to tech support its going to have Conroe support with some new bios.

no bios makes a board conroe ready, thats the bios for the newer revison board when it comes.

Mikey · 21 Jul 2006 at 10:43

Oops misread things then. Any other thoughts then. I haven't looked at the hardware market for ages (proliant servers - more my thing) in the past I had great stability from Abit boards. Abit AB9

Any recs?

Stelly · 21 Jul 2006 at 10:51

According to sources the Abit Conroe range is supposed to be lacking... a lot

Stelly

Mikey · 21 Jul 2006 at 11:08

Ah well time for some further reading.

Basically selling my ST20G5 shuttle as i think it's crap and sticking with my company laptop.. So looks like for some further reading.

Stelly · 21 Jul 2006 at 11:23

You might wanna consider the Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI)

Stelly

fenderbass86 · 21 Jul 2006 at 11:29

Stelly said:
You might wanna consider the Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI)

Stelly

Bingo, I think that's the one i'm gonna get. Either that or if OcUK can get the Epox range in, the EP-5P965+ GLI (first on the right) in particular. The MSI P965 Platinum looks good too.

Stelly · 21 Jul 2006 at 11:31

fenderbass86 said:
Bingo, I think that's the one i'm gonna get. Either that or if OcUK can get the Epox range in, the EP-5P965+ GLI in particular. The MSI P965 Platinum looks good too.

I just bought the... Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-062-GI) for the hell of it

Stelly

fenderbass86 · 21 Jul 2006 at 11:34

Man you're just buying everything! A whole new Xtreme system, a Celeron if i'm not mistaken, and now the Gigabyte DS4! Was the Intel Bad Axe no good then?

Stelly · 21 Jul 2006 at 11:37

fenderbass86 said:
Man you're just buying everything! A whole new Xtreme system, a Celeron if i'm not mistaken, and now the Gigabyte DS4! Was the Intel Bad Axe no good then?

Bad Axe I'm not sure will work... I'm going to see if it does.... if not then RMA it, then use the gigabyte one, if that does not work I'm going to hang myself...

I'm going to run both motherboard to see which is the faster then I'm going to use the fasters... the Cely is to test to see if its the processor thats not working

Stelly

Arsenal · 21 Jul 2006 at 11:49

Heh great minds think alike Stelly.. i changed my order from the Bad Axe to the DS4 a couple of days ago and now it has all arrived, the DS4 looks excellent! Now i just need my processor.

Mikey · 21 Jul 2006 at 11:51

Looks like I'll be investigating these Gigabyte boards. Time to go and find that tomshardware doco.

TREE · 21 Jul 2006 at 11:55

james32 said:
no bios makes a board conroe ready, thats the bios for the newer revison board when it comes.

actually if the motherboard already supports the lower voltages required to run the conroe then i think you will find otherwise, and from the range of voltage options on the gigabyte board i would not be surprised if it did. However if you want to clarify that go and ask Gigabyte support and see what they say.

stoofa · 21 Jul 2006 at 12:17

I took delivery of a DS4 this morning.
I'm now just waiting on stock of the CPU's to appear and then I can build my Conroe system.
The DS4 looks nicely made and it looks well featured as well.

I've been a Gigabyte user for the past three motherboards I've owned.

TREE · 21 Jul 2006 at 12:26

Iv used a number of brands for my past motherboards and so far before the release of Gigabyte's new boards id have said Asus have the highest quality. However with the new p965 boards from gigabyte using all solid capacitors my view has changed. However if the big G has cut corners else where is yet to be seen, but im sure thats unlikey.

enjoy the board bud.

Mikey · 21 Jul 2006 at 16:52

Have to say I like the look of the Gigabyte board so my initial plan is to get this board and the other bits and pieces. Get a 2nd hand 775 P4 CPU and then go from there.