but no really, does anyone know if the P5ND2-SLI is a decent MB for this?
Hi, I bought this very same board a couple of days ago and it works fine(so far). It lacks a few features of the deluxe model (like extra USB ports, firewire, and an external SATA connector), but the BIOS seems to give me seperate control over FSB, PCI-E, Memory speeds etc.
I'm currently at 190MHz fsb and (touch wood) everything seems stable. I'm cooling on air at the moment using a Vanessa L Type cooler. With the case closed, the temp seems to bounce between 44-45 degrees at idle and raises to 54 when I run PC Mark 2005.
I'm very happy with the cooler as it came with fittings for several different board/CPU types. Prior to buying this board I was using it on an Asus P4P800SE board with a Prescot 3.2E processor. The temperature with this new CPU seems pretty much identical to the prescot when running at 4GHz. It seems a heck of a lot faster than the prescot though.
I'm new to the forum so I'll have to read up on what results others are having with temperatures. For me the results I'm getting seem quite good, but it's not a particularly hot day today.
very nice, haha i'm in a very similar situation. I currently have a Asus P4P800SE w/ a Prescot 3.2 Processor as well. Would you say it is worth upgrading to the 805 and OCing it with this board? My Prescott just isn't cutting it for quake 4 and my current geforce 6800 just isn't cutting it either so this is a chance for me to up to PCI-express x16. If so i'm gonna jump straight on it.
thanks!
also, i'm looking for 2GB of memory if anyone see's anything worth buying hah
On the flipside does anyone think it would be more wise to upgrade to a conroe ready MB instead and are there any on the market as of now?
http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Intel_D975XBX_Motherboard,__16029938
Supposedly Currently newegg is shipping the Rev 304 required. too bad newegg isnt the cheapest.