Which 775 board?

OneWingedAngel · 11 Mar 2006 at 21:55

What is the best mATX socket 775 board available now for around the £80 mark. looking to run a pentium D 920 chip with 2GB of DDR2 667mhz.

Would prefer a board with integrated graphics, although this is not essential.

R B Customs · 12 Mar 2006 at 01:50

have you already bought the 920 ?

only reason im asking is if you havnt, id go for the 930,
there seems to be a lot of issues with mainboards supporting the 820s and 920s, just to throw another spanner into the works, the 920 is using the new 65nm process... also mainboards are hard to find for this too as its a very new technology

i think it has somethign to do with the multiplyer being x14, ( where as the others are x15, and when the multiplyer is dropped to 14 the chip will only work in suingle core mode !

ive only been looking at SLI boards though,
but just to let you know ive noticed very little support for this CPU.
i might be totaly wrong though !!
Rick

maddness · 12 Mar 2006 at 09:56

if your running a dualcore chip, there are only 2 options (afaik)
the Abit LG-81 or the P5LD2-VM, both are avaliable here on ocuk.

they are both based on the 945G chipset, the asus one does not clock as high as the abit one. both have built in graphics.

Ive used both and can say the abit is good for clocking, currently sitting here with my 920 @ 4Ghz. (max vcore is 1.48-1.49 bios allows) the PWM on the abit does get a bit warm though on high load (80+ degrees) probably worth investing in better PWM cooling (external fan / better sink etc).

The Asus doesnt really like to go past 220fsb unless you up the pci-express bus to around 110+, the maximum ive attained were about 240 on the fsb, you proably can get higher with pata drives rather than sata. On the asus the PWM does not get as warm though.

but for what its worth i would go with the abit unless something better comes / is out.

OneWingedAngel · 12 Mar 2006 at 10:47

Looks like the Abit is going to get the nod then, thanks for the help. <maddness> is the 4ghz on the cpu limited by the board or by the chip? Also do you have any extra cooling on your PWM? If so, wha do you use?

monkeypants · 12 Mar 2006 at 10:49

What exactly is PWM on the board?

maddness · 12 Mar 2006 at 11:22

OneWingedAngel said:
Looks like the Abit is going to get the nod then, thanks for the help. <maddness> is the 4ghz on the cpu limited by the board or by the chip? Also do you have any extra cooling on your PWM? If so, wha do you use?

i used an external fan and applied as5 (dont think its the paste best to use tbh), might reapply some ceramique or what not.

the max fsb is limited to 299 (before this board goes all flakey).
and the power regulators / caps are bound to go in the 3 figures and pop.

maddness · 12 Mar 2006 at 11:25

monkeypants said:
What exactly is PWM on the board?

the power regulation mosfets and caps (usually near the cpu)

the abit and asus have a small ish sink on them.

WJA96 · 12 Mar 2006 at 13:37

<maddness> said:
Ive used both and can say the abit is good for clocking, currently sitting here with my 920 @ 4Ghz. (max vcore is 1.48-1.49 bios allows) the PWM on the abit does get a bit warm though on high load (80+ degrees) probably worth investing in better PWM cooling (external fan / better sink etc).

If you use a freezer 7 Pro it blows air directly over the PWM heatsink.