Need recommendation on a good motherboard.

Strike Viper · 16 Jan 2007 at 23:34

Hi everyone.
I'm new at OcUK as you can probably tell from my post count.

I need a recommendation on a good motherboard, as stated in the topic title.
I've bought a case (a Thermalake Tsunami Dream) and I'm hoping to scrape together enough money to have an amazing gaming PC ready for the release of Crysis sometime within Q1/Q2 '07. Obviously I need something that can handle games and whatnot well, and preferably one under £100 if possible... =/

I know very little about PC hardware, as you've probably guessed, and I thought OcUK would be a good place to ask, so... any help would REALLY be appreciated.

FirebarUK · 17 Jan 2007 at 00:12

My recommendation would be;

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-221-AS

Quad core support and the option of SLI if you ever come into some extra cash

hashcake · 17 Jan 2007 at 00:16

If you are never going to go for SLI then I would suggest looking at the Asus P5B range.
I've used loads of them in system builds and not had one faulty or go faulty as of yet.

Snapshot · 17 Jan 2007 at 07:14

The alternative, if you don't need SLI, is the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 which is a favourite with the overclockers here.

TheDean · 17 Jan 2007 at 09:21

Snapshot said:
The alternative, if you don't need SLI, is the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 which is a favourite with the overclockers here.

+1 - Brilliant board from what I have been reading - Solid as a rock and good value for £££!

Strike Viper · 19 Jan 2007 at 16:28

Nice, thanks for the replies everyone. I'll have a look at some of these.