Need a mobo please £80 max.

James07 · 17 Sep 2008 at 20:02

I need a mobo to run this system please lads

£80 max, need it to hold a lot of ram and to be reliable, durable and good quality, needed for gaming.

Let me know,

Cheers,

James.

Chimerical · 17 Sep 2008 at 20:04

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3

For £8 more, you can get the P45 version.

James07 · 17 Sep 2008 at 20:07

Is there a big difference between them?

Chimerical · 17 Sep 2008 at 20:13

Slot layout looks to be the main thing.

Possibly a difference in overclocking ability. But the P43 is no less reliable or anything like that. P45 can take 16GB of RAM, P43 seems to be a maximum of 8GB.

Will you be overclocking?

James07 · 17 Sep 2008 at 20:18

Chimerical said:
Slot layout looks to be the main thing.

Possibly a difference in overclocking ability. But the P43 is no less reliable or anything like that. P45 can take 16GB of RAM, P43 seems to be a maximum of 8GB.

Will you be overclocking?

Probably not... I'll probs have 8 gb in there at some point...

I want ut was gaming, css, bf2, quake etc

Chimerical · 17 Sep 2008 at 20:19

Just get the P43 then.

Unless someone identifies any major problems with it....

James07 · 17 Sep 2008 at 20:50

Or unless anything better comes along..

MeatLoaf · 17 Sep 2008 at 22:38

Whats up with the P5N-D?

Alternatives to that are the P35/45 chipsets.

Ive got a P35 board but im missing my nvidia SLI board

Tetras · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:12

Ive got a P35 board but im missing my nvidia SLI board

Why, do you like pain?

(sorry, couldn't resist :rolleyes:

)

James07 · 19 Sep 2008 at 08:45

Ordered my case now!! Should be on it's way today, Antec Nine Hundred.

Now time for the mobo, I'm buying parts weekly so that it dosnt seem as expensive as the rig altogether with no screen is just short of 800..

Can't wait now though...

Darg · 19 Sep 2008 at 09:02

The Asus P5Q range are right in your price bracket and are all P45 chipsets. I went for the cheapest and it's a great overclocker. If you have £80 though I'd go for the cheapest that has 2x PCI-E slots just in case you want to go xfire sometime in the future.

James07 · 19 Sep 2008 at 17:29

Darg said:
The Asus P5Q range are right in your price bracket and are all P45 chipsets. I went for the cheapest and it's a great overclocker. If you have £80 though I'd go for the cheapest that has 2x PCI-E slots just in case you want to go xfire sometime in the future.

Have you got any linkys?

Cant find much here..

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Suppose this looks orite.. bit over what i was hoping to spend but tbh, ill spend more to get this

The one i showed u looks awsome..

James07 · 19 Sep 2008 at 17:34

Any decent CPUs?

Looked at the E7200 or the E8400

Any major differences in performance?

shaffaaf27 · 20 Sep 2008 at 02:54

E5200 and clock it over 3.6

and IMO i dont like the P5Q due to the position of the 24pin ATM connector