Motherboard Advice

[DennyCraneBL]

I need a Motherboard which will handle overclocking a Core 2 Duo E6300.

My only requirements are:
2 x IDE slots
DDR2 memory
and
PCI-E graphics
Micro-ATX

I have a budget of upto £80, I have found some Asus boards but the ones on sale in the UK, don't seem to have good overclocking features, a board on their site looked very good but I can't find it on sale anywhere here.

 

[Guest]

Cheapest, Ocable board is the Biostar, make sure it has enough feature because it is pretty stiped down.

Look at this article here

Biostar and Gigabyte are probably your best pick, the P5B-E is a good choice too

 

[BUFF]

there aren't any good overclocking mATX C2D boards yet.

 

[Guest]

shoot mAtx, sorry about that....no clue is my new answer

 

[DennyCraneBL]

How about ATX then? I could always ditch the case.

 

[Guest]

What I suggested =)

Biostart Tforce, gigabyte s3/ds3, asus P5b-E.

Depending on wether you need Raid firewire and so on, I suggest you look at that anandtech article I linked, there's also one on THG and another 2 article on anand to help you make up your mind.

For Ocing, mAtx is less then optimal. airflow doesn't help either

 

[operaman]

I don't know of any mobo's using this chipset yet, but the nForce 650i Ultra sounds like it'd be very nice for you.
I think it's the most modern and fully featured chipset with 2 IDE controlers that's come out yet.

Here's a compairsion chart of the 650i's vs the 680i:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2869&p=2

And here's a bit more on the 650i explictly (same article):
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2869&p=4