Hey folks. I'm putting an E8400, 2 x 2Gb PC2-6400 ram and an 8800 GT on a m-ATX board and need to know what the difference between the G31, G33, G35 and Q35 chipsets are?
Basically I'm interested in the best performance/price ratio.
 
Thanks in advance.  

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We had asked all of the large motherboard manufacturers to send us their latest products based on Intel's integrated G33 chipset. This core logic product largely equals the P35, supporting FSB1333 and DDR2 memory together with the latest ICH9 Southbridge

I have an Asus P5k-VM G33/ICH9 board with an e2160 in a 2nd machine.
 
Does 300x9 with onboard with out issue, corrupt graphics at 333
 
does 333x9 with PCI-E card installed with ease, didn't try faster

Well, the reason i ask is that i simply can't find a big difference between the four chipsets.
The price vary a bit tho.

I think the main difference is that G31 ties with the ich8, but i may be very wrong,  
 
G31 with the ich9, but they both had poor built in graphics, so intel have a new gpu which they used in the G35. There is a new g45 due soon too.
 
I was looking for a bid range board which is why I went with the G33 the machine is only used as a PVR using Vista MC so the only 3d work it does is Aero

Ok, seeing as I'm not gonna use the onboard graphics i can take that out of the consideration.

must it be micro atx?

I guess the G45 are gonna let us have the first m-ATX boards with PCI-E 2.0.

you won't get a perfomance hit using pcie <2.0 I have a P35 with a 8800Gt and it flies

G33 info and reviews
 
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdo [...] i=3111&p=1

Yep, already settled on a case. Actually i posted it all here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/foru [...] ack-wanted, but i didn't get any feedback on the chipset question.
 
The case is this one http://silverstonetek.com/products [...] F&area=usa if you were curious

it's the support for DVI-D, VGA and HDMI. I think that the G35 support HDMI/DVI-D/VGA, the G33, DVI and VGA and the G31 only VGA...
 
Q35 is for the business segment  
 
for your need a G33 will do the job.
 
http://compare.intel.com/pcc/showc [...] ture=en-US

 
 
Ah ok, I got mine in a Full ATX case... I wanted onboard igp

Thanks a lot! That cleared up some things!
I was gonna go with an ASUS P5E-VM HDMI as that was the only one sporting a G35 chipset.
Gonna find me a G33 board now, prob Gigabyte.
 
Cheers  

the Gigabyte G33 board is rumoured to run very hot...
 

Ok, that might be a problem as its getting crammed in my case.

The Asus doesn't S3, which is a pita as I use mine as a pvr
 
The Msi is supposed to be the best all rounder

Sorted out the S3 issue, now this board is 95% rated, if it had the ich9r then it would have been 100%

Ivcc for G35 chipset is 15.5 A (from datasheet), this IC will be very hot!?