MicroATX (C2D) overclocking boards?

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Hi.

I am looking to build a new pc in a compact case. I am going to get a 4300 and aim to overclock to 2.5ghz or so.

What micro atx boards out there will give some overclocking options? I am not looking to push the chip far, just what i can get out of it with stock cooling in a decent case.

I am looking to keep costs down so i dont want anything fancy. I will be using one pciE graphics card (dont need sli) and one pci slot for a wireless card. only need 2 ram slots.

What can you recommend?

anyone used an Asus P5B-VM series board for overclocking?
 
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i suggest getting a g33 chipset motherboard too. at least by my experience, the g965 chipset only supports a 20% overclock increase. very useless.
 
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i'm not sure how well the mATX p35's do, but i know that the ATX Asus P5K Deluxe can take a Q6600 to 2000FSB, and a C2D to 2050FSB. If anything i'd probably go with a p35 chipset but as far as mATX is concerned, just look up some reviews on newegg.
 
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450fsb is a very big difference from 2000fsb. if he meant that you could experience up to a 2000mhz increase then that is different.
 
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exactly why i was under the WTF MATE train of thought. but back to the thread's original purpose. get a decent not necessarily asus motherboard with the g33 chipset and you'll be fine.
 
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as long as i can overclock i dont really mind about support for future processors. In all my PCs so far i dont think i have ever upgraded the processor. I have always just sold the entire machine and started from scratch again.

So as long as i can overclock, a decent priced overclocking board is all i will need.
 
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G33 is just a better chipset all around. If you want to overclock higher than you originally anticipated, you have the option. If you ever want to upgrade the CPU, now you have the option. G33 also adds support for DDR2-1066 memory.

G965 is ok, but now that G33 is available for roughly the same price, why not go with it?
 
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the p35 boards are the standard atx sized motherboards variant. i.e. they will not fit in a small form factor case. if you wait a couple weeks the g33 motherboards should arrive in au which are microatx.
 
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G33 only controls 1 PCIe slot at x16 mode. For two PCIe slots in a mATX format, a company will have to make a P35 or X38 chipset mATX board.

Shuttle will be producing X38 and P35 machines soon, they showed them off at Computex '07.
 
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click here and scroll down and you will see
" Model GA-G33M-DS2R
CPU Type Socket 775
FSB 1333/1066/800
Chipset Intel G33 chipset
Memory type Dual Channel, DDR2 1066(OC)/800/667
Memory socket DDR2*4
Max. Memory 8 GB
Graphics interface PCI-Express
PCI-Express X16 (X8 ) 1
PCI-Express X1 (X2,X4) 1*PCI-Express x4

but when i searched for the intel g33 chipset on yahoo it shows that this chipset have x16 bandwidth
 
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