Hey All,
I just wanted to know if anyone has any experience with the P5L-MX, (and this build in general). I know it isn't the best board for overclocking, but I am planning on building a new computer (my first build, and my first overclock) and I am trying to keep the cost to a minimum. It looks to me like the E4300 will be the perfect chip to overclock (and a good price), so that's why I'm going with it. Now, I know that this board is low end, but it seems to have what I need; dual channel memory, pci express, since I'm not a gamer the onboard video should do fine for now (I can always upgrade later if I feel like it), and from the reviews it seems to be OK for overclocking, at least up to ~320 FSB. Apparently the onboard NIC stops working at 320, but people have just bought a cheap NIC and went up to ~360. Either way, since I plan on using stock cooling I probably won't be able to reach much higher than 320 anyways, and I'd be perfectly happy with 300FSB on the E4300, which would be 2.7GHz, a 50% overclock.
So, with that in mind, I'd love to hear from anyone who has any experience with this board, or any of the other components as well. I'm not sure of all the options that will be in the bios, so if anyone knows what is and isn't there that would be relevant to overclocking, please let me know. Also, any other comments, suggestions, concerns about this build are welcomed.
Here's my planned setup.
E4300 C2D
ASUS P5L-MX Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 945G Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR2 667
Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Thanks in advance!
I just wanted to know if anyone has any experience with the P5L-MX, (and this build in general). I know it isn't the best board for overclocking, but I am planning on building a new computer (my first build, and my first overclock) and I am trying to keep the cost to a minimum. It looks to me like the E4300 will be the perfect chip to overclock (and a good price), so that's why I'm going with it. Now, I know that this board is low end, but it seems to have what I need; dual channel memory, pci express, since I'm not a gamer the onboard video should do fine for now (I can always upgrade later if I feel like it), and from the reviews it seems to be OK for overclocking, at least up to ~320 FSB. Apparently the onboard NIC stops working at 320, but people have just bought a cheap NIC and went up to ~360. Either way, since I plan on using stock cooling I probably won't be able to reach much higher than 320 anyways, and I'd be perfectly happy with 300FSB on the E4300, which would be 2.7GHz, a 50% overclock.
So, with that in mind, I'd love to hear from anyone who has any experience with this board, or any of the other components as well. I'm not sure of all the options that will be in the bios, so if anyone knows what is and isn't there that would be relevant to overclocking, please let me know. Also, any other comments, suggestions, concerns about this build are welcomed.
Here's my planned setup.
E4300 C2D
ASUS P5L-MX Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 945G Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR2 667
Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Thanks in advance!