LGA 775 Motherboards to look for

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Hi guys,

I'm looking to build a budget 720p gaming rig. I will be buying secondhand.

All I need is a motherboard, ram and cpu.

I have the following components already:

Nvidia Fx 3700 quadro
Antec Basiq 500w psi
500gb Samsung Hard drive
Case
Windows 7 pro

My question is what LGA 775 boards should I be looking for? I'm going to a second hand pc shop tomorrow and they have a variety of LGA 775 boards. And will the fx 3700 be ok for lite gaming on low settings?

I will most likely get a q6600 or better along with it and would like to overclock.

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Oops looks like we got side tracked, heh. Well my ASUS P5Q is still running like a champ, so I'd start there with ASUS boards. :D

This is probably as good a guide as you are going to get from 2008 right here on Tom's for P45 chipsets, and note a variant of my P5Q Pro was tested here (Deluxe which was one step up from the Pro). It's one reason I chose that board based on price for performance back then being $50 less than the premium boards with >90% of the performance and features, but that cost is a non-issue now if course:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-p45-motherboard,2001.html

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Here's a 3DMark benchmark link a guy did in 2013 with your video card and a Q9000:

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm06/17377613

Only 2,913. Your GPU was an excellent workstation card (I would hope so costing well over $1,000US in 2008) but as the 3DMark benchmark shows, it's not a gaming card. It was actually slower in gaming than the 8800GT it's based on due to a lower clock speed. I'd strongly recommend getting a used video card there while you are at it, like maybe a GTX 750Ti or older GTX 660 or something along those lines about 3-5 years old that was a mid-tier card for their time. Keep in mind you are still buying 8-9 year old hardware with an LGA 775 chipset.

And the last DX version that an 8800GT played in games was DX10. It will not work in today's DX11/12 games.
 
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Thanks 10tacle. I'm aware that the hardware is old. I haven't considered that ithe fx 3700 wouldn't play some games although I would only be playing games like csgo and path of exile which should be playable.

If the fx 3700 struggles I will look at the suggested alternatives. Is the fx 3700 not overclockable or would it not provide the performance boost to at least be on par with. the 8800GT?
 
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Unless someone gave you all that second hand hardware it makes no sense to go that route. While a Q6600 is cheap LGA 775 motherboards even second hand are shockingly expensive given they're ten years old. Get a G4560 for $65 and a B250 motherboard for $65. It will be infinitely better.
 
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I remember people saying they could overclock it in Riva Tuner (no longer exists), but I'm not sure if that card can even be read with today's Precision X or Afterburner GPU tools. With that said, the cooling is not designed for it (small fan, single vent slot out back). I would not push it far.

Good luck!

 
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Going with new hardware(G4560 and gtx 1050) will cost R5000 ($385) while the older hardware will cost R1000 ($70). OK obviously the new hardware will perform much better but I don't mind low settings and it will be on 720p
 
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^^I second that but he appears to want a 775 chipset. One reason I have held on to my LGA 775/C2D/DDR2 build is that the components themselves have actually gone up in value. I don't understand it either other than it's just got to be people buying replacement components that have died in their 775 builds that are no longer found new. I am actually thinking of parting it out in the next month or two just because of that.

 
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Just as an example of the components of my build, here's what the motherboard and RAM are selling for on eBay in the US:

Motherboard: ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 - $85 <-- and there are 8 people watching that item for sale)
Memory: G.SKILL 2x2GB DDR2 1066 - $50

The CPU, the E8400 Wolfdale, is essentially worthless at $5-$10 LOL. I'd sell everything for $125 as a core package.
 
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Oops looks like we got side tracked, heh. Well my ASUS P5Q is still running like a champ, so I'd start there with ASUS boards. :D

This is probably as good a guide as you are going to get from 2008 right here on Tom's for P45 chipsets, and note a variant of my P5Q Pro was tested here (Deluxe which was one step up from the Pro). It's one reason I chose that board based on price for performance back then being $50 less than the premium boards with >90% of the performance and features, but that cost is a non-issue now if course:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-p45-motherboard,2001.html

 
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OK thanks will keep eye out for Asus boards.
 
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