Looking for a good P45 board

[Maziar]

Hi all hope u are fine
What is a good P45 board for $100-$200 price range? i was looking at ASUS P5Q-E but i have heard the BIOSTAR TPOWER I45 is a good choice,what do u say? any other recommendations
thanks alot

 

[Commander_Keen]

i use the p5q and its wonderful as i will only be using 1 card its all i need
just my 2 cents

 

[Maziar]

thanks i am looking for more comments too
btw i dont need either SLI/CROSSFIRE

 

[fshaharyar]

MSI P45 Neo 2 is better than Asus P5Q series. it has good nb cooling with heatpipe

 

[Maziar]

Thanks,still looking for more comments.

 

[badge]

If it's good, I don't know. Is it the only Micro form factor P45 I know of, yes. No onboard video, yes it has no onboard video 8). Micro build Xfire capable, oh hell yes!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136055&Tpk=N82E16813136055

 

[ThePatriot]

MSI P45 Platinum is 45nm ready,
wil fit DDR2-1200, ICH10R, 8 SATA, eSATA, 1394a, SPDIF, 8 x USB 2.0, 2 x PCI Express 2.0 and FSB can be jumped to 1666 (1333 native), excellent cooling of chipset en MOSFET.
I am happy with it, running a simple E8400.

 

[mtyermom]

You might consider this:
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $107.99

 

[techgeek]

I have the P5Q Deluxe, and it's a great board. As I'm pretty sure that GigaBytes board is as well. I don't like MSI, to many failures.

 

[Maziar]

So no one recommends the BIOSTAR right? i may go for either ASUS P5Q or the MSI one,i wont get GIGABYTE because i had problems with it

 

[swanlee]

I have an Asus P5Q deluxe and it is a very nice baord is very stable and runs very cool.

Also Express gate is a cool feature of the Asus boards. It's a linux kernal that allows you to surf the web download patches updates access files etc. even if your operating system is fried. It also allows you to copy file to and from a usb stick.

 

[Maziar]

Ok thanks,i will go for ASUS P5Q board but dont know which one, P5Q DELUXE, P5Q PRO or P5Q-E,if they are like their P35 brothers then i think the P5Q-E is the best bang for buck.