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30th April 2009, 14:11 | #1 |
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| Ideal mobo for E8400 (in 2009) Hi All It's all your fault MadShrimps. After reading that E7400 vs E8600 article, I got myself an E7400. Not satisfied with it, I then went to get a E8400. What a brilliant chip has it been! So brilliant in fact that I managed to kill one of my motherboard's memory lanes Good news it is still under warranty. Soooo, I'm in the very fortunate position to pick a mobo that is better suited for getting the most out of an E8400. So, dear Madshrimpians, what do you suggest? P.S. Running single card, not bothered about Crossfire or SLI. |
30th April 2009, 14:21 | #2 |
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30th April 2009, 16:38 | #3 |
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| Thanks Jmke In terms of 2009 prices what do you think makes more sense? |
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| if you're not into (extreme) overclocking, any fully featured P45 motherboard with DDR2 (cheaper) or DDR3 (future proof) will do
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30th April 2009, 18:56 | #5 |
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| It depends how you define extreme...but i'm not prepared to do anything more than adding an extra fan to blow on the Northbridge and my Ultra 120 extreme. Also, I'm looking for a 24/7 overclock and probably nothing past 4GHz. If P45 chipset: Asus or Gigabyte? I do have the option to go X48. Is P45 still the better choice? |
30th April 2009, 18:58 | #6 |
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| Also, I forgot to say that I would like to try 8*500 but nothing past that. |
30th April 2009, 19:30 | #7 |
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| About any P45 could do 500 fsb I guess.
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30th April 2009, 19:58 | #8 |
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| any recent P45 of known OC brands will reach that goal; now what brand to choose comes down to price and extra's you want/need
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30th April 2009, 20:35 | #9 |
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| EDIT: Yes, I forgot to mention that I run DDR2-1000, which can do 4-4-4-12 at 500MHz. Well, the site offers Gigabyte, Asus, and MSI. I'm not pleased with MSI so I'd rather avoid it. The ones costing about the same as the one I'm returning (£119) are:
P5QPRO - £123.97 Asus S775 INTEL P45 DDR2 ATX AUDIO LAN P5Q PRO P5Q-E - £120.86 Asus S775 INTEL P45 ATX DDR2 AUDIO LAN P5Q-E P5Q - £105.71 Asus S775 INTEL P45 ATX DDR2 AUDIO LAN P5Q P5QC - £103.15 Asus S775 INTEL P45 ATX DDR2 AUDIO LAN P5QC
Gigabyte S775 Intel P45 DDR2 ATX Audio Lan 6SATA11 GA-EP45-DS3 - £107.24 Gigabyte S775 Intel P45 DDR2 ATX Audio Lan 6SATA11 GA-EP45-UD3 - £109.97 Gigabyte S775 Intel P45 ATX A L UltraD3 GA-EP45C-DS3R - £114.29 Gigabyte S775 Intel P45 ATX A L Combo GA-EP45-UD3R - £121.09 Gigabyte S775 Intel P45 ATX A L UltraD3
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