Motherboard for a E5200

MarkW7 · 6 Apr 2009 at 10:53

I am in the middle of building a new pc.

Antec 300
E5200
320gig hdd

And the rest is undecided, i need a nice, cheap motherboard to equip a E5200.

Any ideas?

95thrifles · 6 Apr 2009 at 12:37

Either this gigabyte at £80 or if you want to spend a little more get a P45 which would support crossfire

MarkW7 · 6 Apr 2009 at 14:29

Is there a cheaper one than £80.

95thrifles · 6 Apr 2009 at 14:39

not thats going to support a PCI-E gfx card no, which I take it you'll be wanting?

MarkW7 · 6 Apr 2009 at 16:29

There must be.

zeppelin` · 6 Apr 2009 at 19:04

get a cheap p45 board

hawker1986 · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:46

Get a P31 board something like a gigabyte P31-ES3G is around £45, good board for that CPU, got one overclocked recently to 3.75ghz no trouble at all.

Hawker

pastymuncher · 7 Apr 2009 at 13:32

This. For price and performance it's unbeatable. Fantastic board that overclocks like mad. It's B grade so you will probably only get the board with no accessories. You could do a search for the Gigabyte EP31 DS3L (latest version) which you can find brand new for around £50.

zAndy1 · 7 Apr 2009 at 13:52

That one you linked to doesn't explicity say it's B grade, is everything in the clearance section B grade by default? Would it be boxed? Tempted to get one of those myself to be honest!

pastymuncher · 7 Apr 2009 at 18:35

zAndy1 said:
That one you linked to doesn't explicity say it's B grade, is everything in the clearance section B grade by default? Would it be boxed? Tempted to get one of those myself to be honest!

Did'nt notice that to be honest. It look's like a clearance item which is just end of line stuff. Probably a full retail box and brand new. Tempted myself now.

MarkW7 · 7 Apr 2009 at 20:22

What do you think of this;

ASUS P5B-VM SE iG965 Socket 775 Socket onboard VGA 6 Channel Audio mATX

pastymuncher · 8 Apr 2009 at 10:20

It's an old chipset. That would'nt be off the bay by any chance?

MarkW7 · 8 Apr 2009 at 12:35

Nope.

Yeah someone said something about the old graphics but i could add a card.

MarkW7 · 8 Apr 2009 at 20:40

My choices;
Need to get tonight really.

ASUS P5B-VM SE iG965
or
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3
or
MSI P43 Neo-F iP43

pastymuncher · 9 Apr 2009 at 13:19

The Gigabyte, easily. For god's sake do not get the MSI!! The Neo-F boards are abysmal.

MarkW7 · 9 Apr 2009 at 17:08

PistolPete · 10 Apr 2009 at 22:26

Slightly more expensive http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-144-GI (£50.59) but I've got 3 of these boards in use now.
2x S2Hs and 1x S2. I've got my main machine, my temporary server and my HTPC all running on these boards. My HTPC even has a E5200 in.