Recommendation of Motherboard beside of Gigabyte?

Hi Guys,


I recently bought P35 - ds4 and it was lemon as **** maybe my batch was like that.

But I never buy one again,

Could you please recommend me some motherboards it can be asus

Chipset could be P35 or X38 preferrebly DDr2 + Firewire on board.

Well after gigabyte has been disqualified only Asus I have got and MSI.


Please some help....

System Config:

Core 2 duo E8400
4GB ram Corsair XMS - C4
2 x 320GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA
2 X Asus Sata Burners
512MB Gigabyte 8800GTS
Corsair 620WHX PSU
Creative XIFI Platinum Sound Card


Thanks,

Unless you want to run Crossfire you'd likely be best with a P35. The ASUS P5K series is nice. The P5K E boards are really full featured and run $140 - $150 depending on if you get WIFE

It didn't die on me mate,

I know that because I have done this so many times besides I always wear anti-static strap anyway if I am doing installations.

This is the first time I bought Gigabyte board I am a fan of Asus but they sad on this forum Gigabyte's are not bad as well so I want it to try.
But failure...

So I guess you guys right... Initially I was thinking about X38 Asus P5E Vanilla but people are saying not as good P35 P5K Deluxe this motherboard specially installing big cooling fans....!

The P5E has nice new features but I dont know compare to the P5K Deluxe how they stuck up...

Do you guys have any idea about these boards how they compare?

Thanks,

I love my gigabyte board, but any Asus P35 board would be fine also.

i mite have missed it.... But what are you going to be doing with this computer?

i myself like the Abit
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] BIT%2bIP35

i would have picked on up my self, but it is crossfire and not SLI

I think the 'E' is the best board for the money. The P5E is an X38 chipset board and will work better if you're going to do a crossfire GPU setup, otherwise the P35's are going to perform just as well, I doubt you would be able to tell the difference. If you are considering going with the deluxe, there is also a 'premium' model, sometimes known as the Black Pearl model, I'd get that one over the deluxe.
Motherboards are the hardest components to give advice on, ask 5 different people and you're going to get 5 different answers. It also is a problem if 'money is no object', because you get into 'x' costs more than 'y' so isn't 'x' better? The boards that cost more usually just have more features (firewire, raid, optical outputs, ect.) than one that cost less, and with the Asus boards you get the better heat pipe. The chipsets and related electronics that make the board work are EXACTLY the same. If you go to the different forums, you will see that every board is not perfect, they all have issues, mostly "my board won't post" which 75% of the time is owner error. There is no such thing as "best", for some only the best will do, for others, like me, show me the bang for my money. No one here will give you a bad recomendation, there are just so many possibilities than YOU have to decide how to spend your $$$.
The only other thing, you have 3 differnet threads going about this,they are all saying the same thing, I think you should pick one and let the other 2 die. I'm not complaining, just kind of a waste of bandwidth. Good luck.