Decent stable and cheap S775 (C2D) board required

Scottland · 22 Nov 2006 at 22:37

Hi,

I'm building a new system soon, and want a board that is nice and stable, overclocks well enough, and I don't need many other features really other than SATA(II) really.

Whats the best out at the moment? I'd rather not spend upwards of £100.

Overclocking wise, I'd want to get about ~450FSB. I'll be running it with 2gb of PC6700 and an E6300.

I've been looking at the Asus P5B, Gigabyte S3/DS3 and the Foxconn 8EKRS2H (cheapest).

What do you think would be most suitable?

I'm also considering getting the cheaper ASrock board until some more decent and cheaper boards come out, maybe an NF6 one.

FrostedNipple · 22 Nov 2006 at 23:06

p5b is good, p5b deluxe is better obviously
cheap as well

Scottland · 22 Nov 2006 at 23:07

Would I be right in assuming that it's just more "features" though?

FrostedNipple · 22 Nov 2006 at 23:08

errrmmm personally i would say yes, im not 100% sore thoug, but hell i got my pd805 up to 3.8gigz stable, but my cooling isnt good enough atm, my lian li is in the post lol

what ide stuff do you have though???

Scottland · 22 Nov 2006 at 23:10

FrostedNipple said:
errrmmm personally i would say yes, im not 100% sore thoug, but hell i got my pd805 up to 3.8gigz stable, but my cooling isnt good enough atm, my lian li is in the post lol

what ide stuff do you have though???

None, SATAII hard drive, and SATA DVDRW.

Whats the difference between the P5B and P5B-E?

FrostedNipple · 22 Nov 2006 at 23:14

errrm i cant really tell you without looking cuz ocuk dont sell it

but the deluxe has heatpipes for northbridge south bridge etc
deluxe has crosfire support if you ever wanted it

ide can be an issue, because oif the jmicron chipset that most intel boards use nowadays but that isnt an issue for you lol

FrostedNipple · 22 Nov 2006 at 23:16

but loking at your price i would go with the p5b vanilla there relly isnt that much differnce, but dont just buy it becasue of what i said im pretty shore otheres will recomend things other than p5b range

Scottland · 22 Nov 2006 at 23:16

Cheers for you input, I'm leaning towards the Asus.

It's identically priced as the DS3, but £20 dearer than the Foxconn. Although the latter doesn't seem to be too hot on overclocking.

My last 2 boards have been Gigabyte, and have been disappointing, so I might try Asus

Cheers

FrostedNipple · 22 Nov 2006 at 23:18

no worrys, i havnt had any issues with my board apart from the jmicron chipset, but that isnt the boards fault, just old drivers

and as i said before it wont affect you-you have no ide

clone · 23 Nov 2006 at 07:44

DS3 or 4 both very stable boards.