hi,
sorry to bore you with another person asking for the best motherboard, but ive tried looking around and its been a while since i bought one, so am a little hazy on the new chipsets and dont want to pay for something i dont need.
my existing board is a gigabyte GA965p-DS3 and i had the old core 2 duo conroe 1.8. i also had (still have) 4; 512mb sticks of ddr2 800mhz coirsair xms2 (totaling 2gb), i wanted a quad core cpu so took advantage of the fact my board will take the kentsfield q6600 g0 which is going cheap. i overclocked my old core 2 duo cpu so was going to do the same for my new quad core, i bought some new ram as well, i got the dominator 1066mhz twinx, x2 2gb sticks (4gb in total). when i put the q6600 and dominator ram in my ga965p-ds3 it wouldnt boot, after a while i tried my old 800mhz ram, it worked fine. so ive established my board wont work with the dominator ram. if i want it to work i need to buy a new board.
this is where your advice comes in please
i need a board with good overclocking (as good as my old DS3, and as simple to do)
will support my kentsfied q6600 go. (no need for 45nm support as the next upgrade wont be for a while and ill just buy what ever new tech is out then, but if it has it it doesnt matter)
will support my dominator 1066mhz ddr2
has x1 pci express slot (no need for sli or crossfire as i wont use it)(i currently have a 8800gt, soon to get a 4870x2)
has x3 pci slots, for xfi gamer audio card, tv card and wirless lan card.
raid 0 for my x2 500gb sata drives
for below £100, cheaper the better as its an unexpected upgrade.
if anyone could point me in the right direction id be very gratefull, ive been looking for a while but there is always 1 feature missing from the board im finding, ie overclocking wise, raid, amount of pci slots etc
thanks for any help in advance
sorry to bore you with another person asking for the best motherboard, but ive tried looking around and its been a while since i bought one, so am a little hazy on the new chipsets and dont want to pay for something i dont need.
my existing board is a gigabyte GA965p-DS3 and i had the old core 2 duo conroe 1.8. i also had (still have) 4; 512mb sticks of ddr2 800mhz coirsair xms2 (totaling 2gb), i wanted a quad core cpu so took advantage of the fact my board will take the kentsfield q6600 g0 which is going cheap. i overclocked my old core 2 duo cpu so was going to do the same for my new quad core, i bought some new ram as well, i got the dominator 1066mhz twinx, x2 2gb sticks (4gb in total). when i put the q6600 and dominator ram in my ga965p-ds3 it wouldnt boot, after a while i tried my old 800mhz ram, it worked fine. so ive established my board wont work with the dominator ram. if i want it to work i need to buy a new board.
this is where your advice comes in please
i need a board with good overclocking (as good as my old DS3, and as simple to do)
will support my kentsfied q6600 go. (no need for 45nm support as the next upgrade wont be for a while and ill just buy what ever new tech is out then, but if it has it it doesnt matter)
will support my dominator 1066mhz ddr2
has x1 pci express slot (no need for sli or crossfire as i wont use it)(i currently have a 8800gt, soon to get a 4870x2)
has x3 pci slots, for xfi gamer audio card, tv card and wirless lan card.
raid 0 for my x2 500gb sata drives
for below £100, cheaper the better as its an unexpected upgrade.
if anyone could point me in the right direction id be very gratefull, ive been looking for a while but there is always 1 feature missing from the board im finding, ie overclocking wise, raid, amount of pci slots etc
thanks for any help in advance