Most reliable overclockable motherboard for a 775?

Biomanic · 29 Jan 2008 at 23:02

I need to know if there is anywhere out there regardless of cost, a motherboard for the socket 775 that is actualy reliable, and clocks well with good pasive cooling for the chipset.

Just to exclude some here is what iv had.

EVGA 680i based motherboard. (killed my ram)

Asus P5N32 e sli ( Killed 4 sets of ram, then finnaly died itself)

Gigabyte P35-DS4 (wont retain overclock or boot from cold with USB device pluged in)

Al my components are of very high quality. I have never had such a problem ever in all my years making computers till I went from AMD to Intel.

jak731 · 29 Jan 2008 at 23:06

what RAM are you using?
could you be overvolting the RAM, even unintentionally?

the Abit IP35 or IP35Pro, maybe a choice to look at

Biomanic · 29 Jan 2008 at 23:22

Im using Ocz Reaper PC 640, this is only tempory ram till I get my Ocz Titanuim VX2 kit back from RMA. I have my Ram at +0.3 which when added to the stock 1.8v, is the stock voltage for this ram, 2.1v. Iv had such bad luck I just feel like selling the whole lot and getting a pre made PC, for me to say that is a lot as iv built over 60 computers.

Tetras · 29 Jan 2008 at 23:29

Al my components are of very high quality. I have never had such a problem ever in all my years making computers till I went from AMD to Intel.

Two 680i chipset boards? Do you like to suffer? In a cold dark corner all alone with a rabid chipmunk? :eek:

Look at a P35 or X38 board, if you really don't care about cost the DFI P35-T2R and X38 are extremely well built with a price tag to match. Abit IP35 series are also pretty solid. Difficult to find a bad Intel chipset board tbh

Biomanic · 29 Jan 2008 at 23:34

I have a P35 board right now and it cant even hold my overclock unless I force it to by doing a sequence of powering down and up again, very hit and miss. I can no longer have my external USB pluged in as it will force my board to reset bios to default clock speeds. I asume this is only a Gigabyte issue and not the chipset?

Thanks.

Tetras · 29 Jan 2008 at 23:38

I asume this is only a Gigabyte issue and not the chipset

Sounds like a board issue, more precisely a "my mobo is borkage" issue. If it can't hold BIOS settings (for overclocking or otherwise) then that is a valid RMA but I can understand you not wanting another.

Vipernet · 30 Jan 2008 at 00:31

ABIT IP35 Pro.

I upped the voltage a couple of notches across the board on mine and it's rock solid @ 500x7 with an e6420. Would like to get a q6600 g0 just to see what the board will do with that.

Biomanic · 30 Jan 2008 at 08:16

ABIT IP35 Pro looks to be a good board. I just need to see if there are any major issues with it. I did look at the board I have now, and everybody seemed happy, plus good reviews. Id rather fix this problem but thats all iv been doing the last 6 months.

does the ABIT IP35 Pro have savable bios profiles, iv got so use to just loading them up when I had to clear the bios, very handy.