Which Mobo to Pick With Wolfdales?

[swat565]

Looking to go from AMD to Intel for both me and a ground up build for my friend. Cant seem to find much on what boards support the new 45nm technologies, I know some can without anything done to them, some need Bios updates, and some motherboards cant at all. Also how do I flash the Bios without a working lg775 prossessor if I go with one that needs to be flashed? any recomendations would be nice, not looking for anything to special and in the 100 range would be nice ^.^

 

[Mondoman]

Just get a nice Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3x MB, and buy from a vendor with high stock turnover, like newegg, so you get a recently-made board.

 

[swat565]

thanks mondoman, was looking at gigabyte in the first place, they seem to make good overall boards, along with asus. also any Ram recomendations?

 

[Mondoman]

Just get some good DDR2-800 RAM spec'd at 1.8V-1.9V (no higher!). This is a decent 2x2GB kit: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146692