Help needed for budget mobos for Core 2 Duo?

[johaness9]

I am just a beginner, so I probably won't OC right away, but maybe later. Anyways, I'm looking for the best bang for the buck. Which of these should I pick? And how will choosing a 965 over a 945 affect the performance/speed of my CPU/system?

I will use a Core 2 duo E6600, 1 SATA hard drive, 1 gig of RAM(does the difference between 800 and 667 of the 965 and 945 make a big difference?), Geforce 7600 GT, and 2-3 OS's on my system(will the BIOS/bad BIOS of some of these mobos be an issue?).

1 MSI 945P Neo3-F Socket T (LGA 775)
2 BIOSTAR 945P-A7A (8.0)

3 Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H Socket T (LGA 775)
4 ECS P965T-A (V1.0) Socket T (LGA 775)
5 BIOSTAR TForce965PT Socket T (LGA 775)
6MSI P965 Neo-F Socket T (LGA 775)

The 4th(ECS P965T-A (V1.0)) one is just as cheap as the 945s, but from the reviews, the cheap 965s(3-6) seem to have more problems than the first two 945s. It seems like a lot are IDE problems, but I will be using SATA. RAM compatability problems seem to be an issue too.

The 3rd one(Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H ) is the one that was used in one of Toms hardware mobo reviews for the core 2 duo in an earlier article, and from what I recall, the article said it was pretty good(but some of the newegg reviews say otherwise).

Thanks!

 

[Xazax310]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2473506&Tab=11&NoMapp=0

here my suggestion run you 100(only 80 with the rebate) it uses the newer* 570 chipsets which are good for moderate OC'ers the heavy OC'ers go with the new 680I but im going to hold and wait for the buget 600I's 670,650 so forth...

 

[yas]

Im not sure exactly which one to choose from the list youve made but make sure you go with the P965 chip not the 945 or the nforce.