Help choosing a mother board

linkinparkks · Post by **linkinparkks** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:32 am

These are specs of my new rig:

CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E6400 2.13Ghz
Graphic Card: ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB or Nvidia GeForce 7900GT
HD: Sata2

I plan on overclocking my CPU to 2.4 Ghz, does anyone have any recommendations on a good mother board that supports this and is not extreamly expensive

Also which Graphic card do u think i chould choose with that.

Thx in advance

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:23 am

GIGABYTE GA-965P-S3 865 chipiset $115

This is prolly the best bang for buck Core 2 motherboard......It can overclock well too. Obviously if you pay more for a motherboard, the better it should OC.
With your CPU you will want to run a high FSB to get some nice clocks......but the above board should do well from what I've read.
What's your budget?

Post by **dicecca112** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:26 am

7900GT or x1950Pro Pro is a little faster than the 7900gt and it is about 249$ at newegg.

I recommend the P5B-E or P5B (160ish and 150)

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... ode=247113

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... ode=247083

Sapphire x1950pro at newegg for $199.99 That's a steal

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814102061

linkinparkks · Post by **linkinparkks** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:37 am

Some one recommended the ASUS P5W DH DELUXE and the P5B-E
do they have good onboard sound and are they better than the you recommended

and by the way my budget is around $200

thx

Post by **dicecca112** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:43 am

your not gonna find anything but the P5B-E for under 200. As for the sound its onboard sound, its good not great. I don't use it, I use a M-Audio Revolution Card. But its more than capable of delivering good sound. P5B-E can hit 500FSB with the right cooling and whatnot, so you could possibly hit 4GHZ on that C2D with the right cooling etc. I'm using the P5B-E that you can see, I've not pushed my 6400 but on stock volts I'm hitting 2950, 3 isn't perfectly stable.

linkinparkks · Post by **linkinparkks** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:38 pm

someone told my that this board had some issues dealing with the ram voltages, what ram do you think i should get.

Post by **dicecca112** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:41 pm

yeah it does. It can only set the ram voltage to 2.2. But if you get this team group, you can easily hit 500MHZ on it way below 2.2volts on the ram.

This ram runs stock 400mhz at 1.8volts http://www.tankguys.biz/2x512mb-44410-8 ... def192dd5a

its what I run. 162$ for 512MB x 2.

linkinparkks · Post by **linkinparkks** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:51 pm

i kinda prefer to just buy it at a store, got lots of kingston and Crossair memorys here, could you recommend me one coz there's so many models and what are the differences between the XMS, kit, and the VS models for the Crossair memories

thx, sorry for asking so much

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:03 pm

linkinparkks wrote:i kinda prefer to just buy it at a store, got lots of kingston and Crossair memorys here, could you recommend me one coz there's so many models and what are the differences between the XMS, kit, and the VS models for the Crossair memories

thx, sorry for asking so much

The XMS memory can run with lower latencies and will overclock better
The XMS2 6400C4 should do well.....

Post by **dicecca112** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:07 pm

um kenc go over to XS, C4s newest revision are expensive and don't have D9 Micron anymore.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:10 pm

dicecca112 wrote:um kenc go over to XS, C4s newest revision are expensive and don't have D9 Micron anymore.

Opps.....I haven't been keeping up with ddr2 lately. I don't plan to switch for a few months.

Post by **dicecca112** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:15 pm

its cool. I mean XMS Corsair or HyperX Kingston would be fine. Its not gonna oc like my Team but whatever.

No kingston is gonna do 4-4-4-7 at stock volts when its rated for 4-4-4-10. Oced to 3.2 with a little bump in voltage. 1.325V