need a cheap but decent 775 mobo for a PD

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any recommendations? intels not really my thing. still learning.

short story - had a cheap PD 805 2nd hand in case my mobo needed one if it didnt recognise a C2D. dont need it now but would like to build a video encoding rig around it.

i want to clock this so would appreciate any mobo lga775 mobo that supports highish fsb and doesnt cost the earth

ta all :)
 
anyone?

just something cheap and cheerful but can take this chip quite far. afaik, this thing runs at 133 x 20 = 2660Ghz right? so something which can handle just 300fsb would run this chip very far

i've been looking at the ASROCK 865G DDR400 S775, or maybe a Foxconn 661FX7MJ-RSH Socket 775 Motherboard

quite cheap at around £30/35 but also takes DDR which would be handy as i have some spare

would the PD be ok with this or would it suffer due to not having enough memory bandwidth?
 
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Hi Tomos,

Hopefully I can be of assistance. Firstly though..

How far do you want to clock that PenD 805 ? And how much do you want to invest in doing so ?

I ask these questions because the 805 is a power hungry beast even at stock, and overclocking it makes the situation even worse. Its heat dump on overclocking is probably one of the worst scenario's I have ever encountered in any CPU.

But its not all bad! A modest overclock on this processor is achievable on even a simple board. If you pay attention to some particular area's, you'll have no trouble achieving half decent performance from this without going to the 'enthusiast levels' that I personally said.

Now, the board I would reccomend you go for is the [size=+1]P5VD2-MX by Asus, as its fairly cheap but offers Dual Core support, integrated video with PCI-Ex for further expansion and also a decent southbridge with support for 2 SATA drives in RAID, and there is an additional Jmicron controller on the board that supports another SATA drive internally and also E-Sata, or external sata. If you need storage, then this board will handle.

Overclocking, you can go upto FSB 165 on the board, which will give you a max overclock of 3.3Ghz. There an no voltage options here, but the chip should be able to do this without an increase in voltage anyway.

The only thing that lets this board down really is the fact it is a single-channel memory interface, that runs on DDR2. If you can afford to go for some DDR2, then this board with give you a nice 3.2Ghz overclock for your Video encoding needs.

I paired this board up with the Antec NSK4400 case that has a 380watt PSU, which at first seems to not be enough, but this machine has been running for well over 3 months now in constant operation at a local business I support. The Dual Core performance is there and does everything they could possibly want.

If the single channel/DDR2 memory puts you off this board then consider the boards you mentioned, although since their not on this site I can't really comment.

Hope that helps

Arthalen

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hiya mate, thanks for the reply and info.

re: the heat prob - i have a phase unit i have spare so figure i may as well use it.

re overclocking, i'd like to get above the low 3ghz. i think that 165fsb seems a little low to use phase on it.

one handy thing i found out is how to joins points of the cpu to force various vcores so get around motherboard limitations (thank you vrzone)

it doesnt help fsb limitations tho so it looks like a case of going for the asrock i think
 
:D Spare Phase unit just sitting around eh ?

Fair enuff then. Then you might want something a bit more upmarket to get the best out of it, if your willing to splash the cash.

My P5WD2 does the job nicely, and a simple pencil mod makes sure there's no Vdroop.

G/L with the OC, I'd love to give phase a try in the future. Can't afford a £500 unit though ;)
 
had it sincee mayish but never got around to using it.

decided to go for it and bought myself a ds3. more than enough oomph there i should hope for a chip with a 20x multi.

handy if i want to dump a conroe in there later on too :)
 
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