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Which P35 for an E2180?

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I gather the Abit IP35 and the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 are the ones people are getting the best overclocking results with. Is there any substantial difference between them? I wanted to go for the Abit due to how pleased I've been with my NF7 these last few years (great board!:)), but now I'm rather leaning towards the Gigabyte due to the Abit's lack of Crossfire support.

Any comments?
 
Is there any reason NOT to go for the P35C-DS3R instead? It's the same price and surely would give a bit of futureproofing, right?
 
The P35C-DS3R seems to give more problems than the standard P35-DS3R.

DDR3 won't be needed for Socket 775 anyway. We'll be on a new socket by the time DDR3 becomes popular.
 
Is the Abit a lot better than the Gigabyte? They have a solid reputation and the one I've had from them is excellent, I'm willing to sacrifice CF support if I'd be getting a better board....
 
Personally I'd go for the Abit IP35, it performs brilliantly and I've never had a bad Abit mobo
 
Ive got an e2180 with Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3 and had no problems at all with it, it runs prefectly. Got it clocked at a measley 2.5ghz on stock cooling but will be upping that when I get a new cooler.
 
Got a p35-ds3, 500mhz fsb with ease. No need to change to change motherboard voltages.

Also, unless you want crossfire or RAID, you may as well get a DS3L since they overclock just as well as its more expensive counterparts.
 
I've got an MSI P35 Neo2 FIR with the E2180 and I'm chuffed with it...and its got loads of LEDS! :D (Looks cool with me side-windowed case!)

None of those horrible parallel and serial ports either, the MSI comes with extra USB's in lieu. Nice.
 
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ghost101 said:
Also, unless you want crossfire or RAID, you may as well get a DS3L since they overclock just as well as its more expensive counterparts.
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If I didn't want CF I would have gone for the Abit which is (to me) a proven brand tbh :) I don't really NEED CF, I just want to have that option as a cheap upgrade path in the future, so I'm STILL thinking of going for the Abit anyway...
 
I have just got a P35 DS4, upgraded from a P965 DS3 and am very happy so far with it, gonna be tinkering this weekend to see what sort of overclock i can get.
 
DS3R is great for me too, only thing i can complain about is the vdrop on it, which is a fair old bit higher than id like.
Oh and the hidden RAM timings, ctrl +F1 everytime you go into bios isn't cool.
 
Which is the best Abit to get then, as there are three IP35's ?
A normal one, a pro and an -e. I can't see much difference between them apart from the price.

:)
 
I have the E2160 and Abit IP35-e and its a brilliant combo :)

Only minor issue wid the Abit is the double boot issue a few people are having, its starts up then reboots itself... there are no side affects of this but i can become annoying lol (theres a BIOS fix)
 
hehe, sounds like both mobos have issues :)

Think I'll check out some E1280 overclocking threads and see which one gets the best results...
 
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