Hi

Anyone can please suggest me a good motherboard for Intel 2.66 Ghz (LGA 775)/533/1X2(DUAL CORE)

What about the following choices
a. ASUS P5RD2 VM
b. INTEL D102 GGC2 (Radeon)
c. Gigabyte 865

I need a mB for best gaming experience with a tight budget .

Regards
Dhinesh

If you're getting it ASAP, I'd go with the Asus board. The X200 graphics on the Intel board is kind of redundant.

AMD's coming out with a renamed ATI chipset that has an AVIVO capable variation of the X700 GPU but I'm not sure if there will be Intel variants.

Is your CPU a Smithfield 805? Make sure you have good cooling. I'm not sure any of the boards you list are good overclockers, and the main claim to fame of the Pentium D 805 is that it overclocks to high heaven, while overheating up like the pit of hell.

What are you willing to spend? None of those boards are particularly interesting.

Hi

8O Ok. Can you suggest me a good motherboard?
No need for over clocking , but should have a decent performance in terms of gaming.

Regards
Dhinesh

Well, if you can afford $125, then this board is very good, with the added benefit that it supports Core2Duo...for if/when you decide to upgrade to one.

Gigabyte GA-965P-S3: $124.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128017

If you want something a lot cheaper, the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA is very upgradable, supporting Core2Duo,DDR1/DDR2,AGP/PCI-e. From a purely budgetary standpoint...this motherboard is hard to beat. One thing that will keep it from being a top-of-the-line gaming board, is that the PCI-e slot is only x4 instead of x16. In real world play, this has proven to not be as bad as one would think(anything over a 7900GT will likely notice the bottleneck). GL

ASRock 775Dual-VSTA: $56.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813157092