Which of these mobos to go for?

tomanders91 · 3 Nov 2007 at 11:50

Which of these P35 mobos are best for overall stability, easy to set up and overclocking, i will have 4gb of ram and either my current e6400 and oc it or buy a new Q6600.

Abit IP35-E (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £64

Gigabyte GA_P35_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £76

Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £82

Asus P5K Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £82

cheers for any suggestions.

BUFF · 3 Nov 2007 at 11:53

the IP35 & IP35-E are the same board bar the ICH9/ICH9R & firewire & chipset cooling differences, share the same BIOS & as such no difference between them in terms of ease of use, oc etc.

tomanders91 · 3 Nov 2007 at 12:04

ive heard the ip35-e has some booting problems though?

BUFF · 3 Nov 2007 at 12:32

you mean the double boot behaviour (common to both)?
fixed in BIOS13.

tomanders91 · 3 Nov 2007 at 15:00

ok cheers, i was reading a review for the abit ip35-e earlier, and it says that all the ip35 boards seem to quite often have problems with the corsair 520 and 620w psus, is this true?

BUFF · 3 Nov 2007 at 15:21

atm there are under 25 recorded cases of that according to Corsair - there are far, far more working together than not.
It's being investigated by abit, Corsair & Seasonic (who make the Corsair HX PSUs) but because it's so infrequent & therefore not easily reproducible I don't think that they've found the cause yet.

Similar has also been seen on other mobo mfrs' boards & indeed boards with other chipsets too.

caithomas44 · 3 Nov 2007 at 15:34

why not the p5kc with ddr2 and ddr3 support for the same sort of money?

tomanders91 · 3 Nov 2007 at 21:12

think i may just risk it and go for the ip35-e shame there doesnt seem to be any psu's to rival the 520w corsair for reliablity/stability in the same price range, look great boards for the money.

Do the boards ship with the latest bios installed?

BUFF · 4 Nov 2007 at 09:19

they'll ship from the factory with whatever was the latest when they were made.
After that with transport & stock rotation in distribution it's quite possible that they will be behind what is the latest available.

WJA96 · 4 Nov 2007 at 09:49

If you can hang on a little there are some new NVidia chipset boards coming that are both budget friendly and clock Quads well.

Search on N610 and N630 - especially with EVGA.

BUFF · 4 Nov 2007 at 12:01

abit has the I-N73H & HD coming with the 630i chipset too.

tomanders91 · 4 Nov 2007 at 12:06

tbh im not sure if i cba to wait, theres always something new round the corner whenever you order.

WJA96 · 4 Nov 2007 at 14:05

These are coming in the next 5-10 days. Supposedly a very sweet chipset to take on G33.

tomanders91 · 4 Nov 2007 at 14:53

price?

Out of the current P35 mobos, which one would you say is easiest to set up, not have have to gay about in the bios changing settings or anything when you first boot up, would going for something more expensive like the abit ip35 pro be better? Or even a cheap X38?