Hey, what's up, guys? I'm helping a friend build a cheap C2D build. A quick summary of his parts:
C2D E6400
eVGA 7600GT
pqi TURBO 1GB
I'm an AMD guy, you know, so I'm not sure exactly which motherboard to recommend. A few things to note: He will be overclocking. He is getting water-cooling for Christmas.
He doesn't want to spend too much money, $100 is a maximum. I want to make sure he doesn't waste the potential of his WC with a crappy motherboard that won't do 300FSB.
I thought about the ECS 570 SLi, but it overclocks very poorly, per the reviews I've read. So I wanted to go for a P965 chipset and the Biostar TForce965PT looks like the best choice. The pqi TURBO needs 2.0V, that shouldn't be a problem, right?
Anyone have any experience with this board? All the reviews of it see that it OC's very highly. I suspect with Water-Cooling, he'll get at least 3GHz..
Finally, are there any other C2D boards that I might have missed? How about that Foxconn? I checked out THG's Shootout of P965 and they believe the Foxconn was "business-oriented"? Any thoughts?
Thanks again!
~Ibrahim~
C2D E6400
eVGA 7600GT
pqi TURBO 1GB
I'm an AMD guy, you know, so I'm not sure exactly which motherboard to recommend. A few things to note: He will be overclocking. He is getting water-cooling for Christmas.
He doesn't want to spend too much money, $100 is a maximum. I want to make sure he doesn't waste the potential of his WC with a crappy motherboard that won't do 300FSB.
I thought about the ECS 570 SLi, but it overclocks very poorly, per the reviews I've read. So I wanted to go for a P965 chipset and the Biostar TForce965PT looks like the best choice. The pqi TURBO needs 2.0V, that shouldn't be a problem, right?
Anyone have any experience with this board? All the reviews of it see that it OC's very highly. I suspect with Water-Cooling, he'll get at least 3GHz..
Finally, are there any other C2D boards that I might have missed? How about that Foxconn? I checked out THG's Shootout of P965 and they believe the Foxconn was "business-oriented"? Any thoughts?
Thanks again!
~Ibrahim~