What S775 mATX?

Dingleberry88

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For an E5200 and 4GB RAM.

Got about £80 to spend. I'm quite liking Gigabyte at the moment, but am open to suggestion, though I don't really want an Asus.

Onboard graphics would be a plus, and an HDMI port handy, but by no means essential.

So what say OcUK?

:)
 
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This is the Gigabyte mobo i am using, with E5200 and 4gb ram. Its a reasonable board for a HTPC, hdmi works well even with blu-ray, (although i did get a cheap grafix card to play a few games). It is worth noting though that you can only fit two sticks of ram, also you cant alter volts for the ram so not a overclockers board.
 
I actually have that board in my HTPC already. :D

This build is for someone else so I was hoping to overclock it a bit, and that board's an old chipset so I was looking for something a bit newer.

The GA-EG45M-DS2H looks ideal apart from the 4x PCIE slot, because I might need to put a decent graphics card in sometime in the future.
 
I've got one of those aswell! :D

I was ideally looking for something with a newer chipset though, but I know the G33M-DS2R is decent if there's nothing else.

Another thing to note; Not really a fan of nVidia chipsets since my 680i board, so Intel would be preferred.

Not giving myself many options am I? :D


Edit: It's not going to be used for games (or if it eventually will be there'll be a dedicated graphics card) so graphics performance doesn't matter, as long as it can run Aero.
 
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Well the thing is, apart from the DFI LP P45-T2RS, the Intel 4 series mATX boards are all pretty rubbish.

I've seen some that don't overclock at all, some that don't even have locked PCIe frequencies. Some that don't even have a single PCIe x16 slot! It's a minefield of trash quite frankly.

I'd stick to the 3 series, trust me on that one. ;)
 
Yar. I was tempted to go for the Gigabyte 9400 one, but there's not much difference, either one is going to be poo compared to a discrete gfx card :D
 
As long as it's can display a desktop that's all I need. But I want a 16x PCIE slot for a graphics card in the future. Almost all of them seem to be 4x though. :/

That Asus looks pretty good, but apparantly with the nVidia chipset runs quite hot.

The P5Q mATX board with the Intel chipset look alright though. I just need to figure out what Asus' naming scheme means with P5Q/E-EM/CL/VM/etc.
 
ASUS P5Q-EM

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