I need a motherboard that will have excellent overclocking ability. I will be overclocking the E4300 chip so I need a motherboard that can overclock to a high fsb.
I don't need anything that fancy, just something with atleast 1 pci-e slot and 2 pci slots. I don't need any of the bells and whistles of built in wifi ect.
trying not to have to create a new thread if I don't have to..my DS3 board with a E4300 is water cooled, so I no longer have a big CPU fan blowing secondarily on the northbridge...so my northbridge heatsink gets hotter than I would like it to...is there a low noise solution (without changing to a bigger heatsink) such as a low speed fan that could attach to gigabyte's heatsink? otherwise I might just mount a spare 120mm fan to the side of the case blowing directly onto the heatsink at low or medium speed.
on the same subject..what is the cheapest board that supports Overclocking? I use the DS3 but I am trying to make my friend a E4300 overclocked with a cheaper mobo...a mild OC at that, probably only 2.4 GHz
The easiest, cheapest, fastest and works well is to mount a 40MM fan on the stock heatsing using screws that will fit in to the stock slots atop the stock HS. I used a Zalman speed controller and went from a NB that I could cook on to a cool to the touch that I cannot even hear. Really before it would burn your finger, now cool. Cost about $4 and 10 minutes without removing anything. This is with a Ninja CPU HS that is about as large as they get. pPcture.
