Which Motherboard

Jesqwik · 20 May 2007 at 11:25

Hello everyone, In 2 weeks time i will be purchasing a new motherboard but im not totally sure which one to buy. I have a budget of around 80 quid. I will be putting a 8800 gts, 2gb ddr2 4300, 250gb sata and currently a e6300 chip (hopefully a 6600 very soon) inside the pc. Could you please advise me which are the best to get. Im changing coz the board ive got now doesnt have a pci-e x16 slot only 4x so it wont fit my new card when it arrives. Thanks in advance

Cob · 20 May 2007 at 11:55

Wait for a week til we see what the new Intel boards are offering.

Tho I assume you're not planning to overclock with PC4200 memory?

Jesqwik · 20 May 2007 at 13:08

not really sure i didnt know that ram had anything to do with overclocking but then again i dont really know anything about it the mobo i was considereing is

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-221-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=205

and i could always buy another 2 gb of memory as 5300 is quite cheap at the moment. But is that a good idea? Ive also seen this but not sure if its good

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-018-GS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=813

Thanks again and appreciate your help

Cob · 20 May 2007 at 13:25

The G.Skill seems to be fine.

Whilst you can run your memory slower than the CPUs FSB speed with the P5N-E, the difference between your pc4200 and what you would be aiming for your FSB to get to would be too much IMO.