DDR3 mobo choice?

Ripper-X- · 18 Oct 2008 at 18:07

Just bought a E6850, looking for a mobo that will take ddr2 & ddr3 1333mhz, thats good for overclocking, with at least 6 sata conections, onboard hd audio & able to take the new 45nm cpu's for future cpu upgrade, can anyone recomend a mobo that is not gonna be to expensive that has all this?
reading all the mobo specs is startin to do my head in lol.......

Popov · 18 Oct 2008 at 19:16

Hmmm dual ram motherboards tend not to come cheap so your going to pay a premium unless you decide which way you want to go with regards to memory and get a single memory type board. Of the dual memory types I'd favour http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2/DDR3 Motherboard (as I'm a bit of an Asus fanboi) or slightly cheaper is the gigabyte http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...cket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard both are p45 chipsets I believe so should have some life left in them as far as cpu upgrades go (unless intel ditch socket 775 ofcourse)

Ripper-X- · 18 Oct 2008 at 20:08

i found this gigabyte mobo thats cheaper http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-127-GI hows that compare to the other gigabyte you mentioned. If i were to go ddr3 only what would u recomend ?

Monkeynut · 18 Oct 2008 at 20:13

Ripper-X- said:
Just bought a E6850, looking for a mobo that will take ddr2 & ddr3 1333mhz, thats good for overclocking, with at least 6 sata conections, onboard hd audio & able to take the new 45nm cpu's for future cpu upgrade, can anyone recomend a mobo that is not gonna be to expensive that has all this?
reading all the mobo specs is startin to do my head in lol.......

All of them will do a 45nm Core 2 Quad/Duo.

benktlottie · 18 Oct 2008 at 20:51

Ive got one of these and it is seriously superb and rock solid for my E8500!

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...X48 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Smirnoff · 18 Oct 2008 at 22:09

Combo boards are just epic fail, Stick with DDR2 or DDR3 imho

Pneumonic · 18 Oct 2008 at 22:22

yup I would go with a good DDR2 board... DDR3 at the moment is not worth the extra

Ripper-X- · 19 Oct 2008 at 14:39

benktlottie said:
Ive got one of these and it is seriously superb and rock solid for my E8500!

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...X48 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

wow thats one hell of a mobo, one hell of a price too, hmm lots to think about but i would think a ddr3 mobo would be more future proof, & under £60 for 2 gig of ram now, surley ddr3 would be the better choice?

jakelovatto · 19 Oct 2008 at 14:54

Personally DDR3 is an improvement on DDR2 obviously but I don't think its feasible when in less than 6 months the prices will fall (they surely have to what do people think).
You can get DDR2-8500 chips and overclock and get comparable performance to the low-end DDR3. If you've got the money definitely DDR2, if you haven't get some top notch DDR2 for far less money.
Of course it depends on your processor, if your thinking of eventually upgrading to a Core 2 Extreme, get a board that supports DDR3 spend your money and wait for the Core 2 Extremes to drop.