Stuck And Need Advice! (Motherboard Related)

Mista.Gee

Mista.Gee

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I have been browsing about on the internet this past week looking to make a new Intel upgrade starting with the Motherboard.

There's so much choice out there I don't know where to start. I've got £80 maximum to spend on a quality, stable, decent and future proof motherboard as I don't intend to upgrade again for awhile.

I don't need SLi or Crossfire but I do want to use the Core 2 Duo E2140 to start of with, I also want to do alittle bit of overclocking and later move on to a Core 2 Quad around June time when Intel's released some of their 45nm processors and hopefully the prices will drop for the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600.

So if anyone can be so kind to point me in a solid direction on what to get then that would be great.
 
There's no real need to go for the DDR2 + DDR3 combo boards. It's very unlikely you'll ever put DDR3 into them. Plus the combo version of the DS3R has been giving a lot of trouble for a lot of people, whilst the standard DS3R has been going strong.
 
Been looking strongly at the Asus P5KC Combo to be honest on another e-tailer quite cheaply. Got £90 notes to spend on good motherboard and want it to last.
 
I've decided to go for the Asus P5KC Combo over the Gigabyte P35C-DS3R.

Have I made a good choice? Been reading some reviews about the both motherboards and some user comments about the Gigabyte been problematic.

Alway purchased Asus because i've never had any problems with there products.
 
I would go for the Asus P5K-Pro:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-266-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913

or the P5K:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-235-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913

Both in your price range. My past experience of boards that support more than one memory type is not positive to say the least. The design is overly complicated and you will be more than satisfied with DDR2 memory for some time to come.

Having said that don't go by my experiences, everyone has different mileage. Asus are a solid brand full stop.
 
Mista.Gee said:
Hey Eisenhorn.

What's the difference between the ASUS P5KC apart from the obvious DDR3, ASUS P5K-PRO and the ASUS P5K.
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By the looks of it the P5K-Pro has 8 phase power regulation and better components, the features on all the boards is quite comprehensive. For the difference in cost between the Pro and the P5-K I would go for the Pro. But really you can't go wrong with any of them.

If you are going to be overclocking then maybe the Pro with the 8 phase power regulation might give you an edge though.
 
Thanks for the help Eisenhorn.

The ASUS P5K-Pro looks like the decent option to me. Don't need DDR3 and it's to expensive at the moment so it looks like it's going to be this ordered next week along with some decent memory to boot.
 
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