Which p45 mobo?

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A friend has a Foxcon P35a at the moment, he's after a better overclocking board.

The rest of his setup is

Q6700
4 x 1gb sticks of Geil DDR2800
Antec TruePower Quattro 850W PSU
9800GX 2

He's wanting a p45 chipset board under £150 pounds and has to be a good over clocking board which is not too difficult to use.

I recommended the Asus P5Q deluxe, heard so many good reviews about this board but it's been out a while now and don't know if there's maybe something better out now.

The board would have to have LLC as well.
 
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P5q deluxe would be a good choice, or alternatively the p5qe if he wants to save a few quid.
 
I went from a ASUS P5Q Deluxe to a Gigabyte GA-P45 UD3P before moving onto i7. The ASUS P5Q Deluxe is very good, I moved to the Gigabyte after read some reviews and threads which claims it would clocks better, but I'm not able to confirm this as I was only able to push the E8500 to 4.2GHz (stable) and 4.5GHz and booted into Windows, but had to drop down due to cooling limitations. I also was able to run 4.2GHz (stable) on ASUS P5Q Deluxe.
If I want a socket 775 mobo now, I would still buy a Gigabyte P45 UD3P or ASUS Rampage Extreme (if cheap enough).

In the end you won't go wrong with either TBH.
 
My advise is, avoid x48, old chipset that only comes ino its own in crossfire, theyre good boards if u need crossfire at x16 per pcie slot, if your using a single card and you want to stay on s775, the p45 boards are better.
 
Holy thread revival :O

Rather than creating a new thread, I searched for the one I created for my firend a fe months back.

I am also looking to upgrade my aging Abit IP35 motherboard.

Is it still the same P45 mobo's that I should look at??

I am leaning towads the Gigabyte GA EP45 UD3P and can get one for just over £100.00, whats your views?
 
Garyj881 said:
Holy thread revival :O

I am leaning towads the Gigabyte GA EP45 UD3P and can get one for just over £100.00, whats your views?
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You do realise that the board is only £85 from Overclockers right? :p The P5Q boards are good too but they all overvolt badly, not heard of any problems like that with the Gigabyte board though.
 
DFI UT P45-T2RS is very overclockable if the person is into the fine tweeking ive seen screen shots of the e8500 @ 5.15ghz on that board.

its cheap on the net now. not sure if OC can get some in??
 
El Jimben said:
The P5Q boards are good too but they all overvolt badly
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El Jimben unless you have tested a dozen P5Q series boards personally using a multi-meter then I don't see how you can say they over-volt badly! :confused:

The ASUS P5Q series are top notch, don't pay any attention to a few chinese whispers being spread around the interweb, its nonsense! :p
 
Im not sure how accurate this overvolting issue is regarding p5q's, but personally ive always set the voltages manually with my deluxe, as i prefer to have control over them myself when overclocking. Aside from that im extremely pleased with the p5q dlx, awesome board for overclocking on.
 
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