Please suggest a good motherboard for Pentium D805

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Hello,

I am building a new system with Pentium D 805.
Please suggest a good motherboard.
I am not going to overclock it but I feel that at stock speeds the motherboard should give a good performance.

I have read that ASUS m/b with 945G have very poor memory performance.
Please suggest a good motherboard.

 

[The_Prophecy]

knowing the rest of your specs would be very helpful when recommending a board to you.

 

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knowing the rest of your specs would be very helpful when recommending a board to you.

P4 805 2.66 Mhz
1GB x 2 transcend or corsair DDR-II RAM 533 MHz
160GB SATA-II HDD
450W cooler masters power supply

 

[The_Prophecy]

Pretty much any Asus board based on the 900 series Intel chipsets except those with the chipset you mentioned would be suitable for a PD 805. The higher end ones like the P5WD2-E Premium which uses the 975X chipset will give you more upgrade potential (ram... video... etc.) The Asus boards based on Nforce 4 chipsets also aren't bad. Only thing about the NF4's is that they tend not to like Maxtor SATA2 drives very much. If that hard drive you have is a Maxtor, all you'll have to do is contact them about a firmware update for the drive. In this senario, I heard nothing but good things about Maxtor's response time on getting the firmware to people that need it.

 

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Thanks for the reply.

I heard that the 945G chipset has certain issues. It can't address all the 4GB memory.
Also the board P5LD2-Vm Asus mobo has poor memory performance 40% slower than an intel 945G based mobo.
Is it true?

I am gonna use Hitachi SATA-II based HDD

Any idea about Intel D945GNT motherboard?

The problem is that I am in india and we have very few choicec for mobo, besides there is no online seller like newegg.

Rgds

 

[INeedCache]

Skip the Asus boards for the Gigabyte GA-G1975X.

 

[The_Prophecy]

Skip the Asus boards for the Gigabyte GA-G1975X.

Provided stack can get one... that is another good option.

 

[Bluthyme]

I would stay away from ASUS P5WD2-E - I bought one after reading the TH article on overclocking the 805 and regret it.

Read about all the problems on http://vip.asus.com/forum

Could not get the 2nd IDE to work AT ALL!


Blu

 

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Hello all,

thanks a lot for all your help.
I am not getting the Gigabyte motherboard in india.
still searching, thinking of going for Intel D945GNTR.
will keep u posted.