what mobo to get

bonsc · 8 May 2007 at 22:54

what mobo to get
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4
Gigabyte GA_965P_S3
Abit AB9 Quad GT
Asus P5N32-E PLUS SLi nForce
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650
i want to order in the morning before i go the bank

Cob · 8 May 2007 at 23:06

The Abit AB9 Quad GT seems to be the flavour of the month.

Tho the new Intel P35 boards are released tomorrow lunchtime and may give you something else to think about.

bonsc · 8 May 2007 at 23:11

ive been putting this together for ages now and eveytime i go to order something new pops up.Are they coming on here tomorrow or soon and whats the benifits of it over those other mobos

BUFF · 8 May 2007 at 23:22

had a DS4 & imo the QuadGT is better (& also better than the P5N-E SLI that I also have).
Really depends upon what features that you need & how much that you want to spend though.

Cob · 8 May 2007 at 23:24

bonsc said:
ive been putting this together for ages now and eveytime i go to order something new pops up.Are they coming on here tomorrow or soon and whats the benifits of it over those other mobos

Yip three of the ASUS ones are already up here.

They've got updated chipsets and other bits and pieces.

Personally I'm waiting for the new P35 DS3. Tho because the NDA isn't lifted until tomorrow we know very little about how they preform.

bonsc · 9 May 2007 at 00:01

BUFF said:
had a DS4 & imo the QuadGT is better (& also better than the P5N-E SLI that I also have).
Really depends upon what features that you need & how much that you want to spend though.

i would like just a good mobo that would last and when i do learn to overclock it can handle that to.Say i got ever the ds3,ds4 or the quad gt what could i get to use for now for my ide harddrives just for now till i update them at a later date

BUFF · 9 May 2007 at 03:11

the 965s only have 1 IDE channel (2x devices) via an addon controller (JMicron) although you could add a PCI IDE controller card if you needed.

650i SLI has 2 IDE channels (4x devices) natively on the chipset.

WJA96 · 9 May 2007 at 07:20

The only one of those I definitely wouldn't get is the ASUS P5N32-E Plus. Any of the others would be fine for almost any use.

The ASUS P5N-E SLi is the only one that has two PATA ports to use the older style parallel ATA optical drives and HDD.