E5200 Need Mobo for Gaming

Asus P45 chipset with ATI 4850 should do great. The Asus is a good OC'er as well. P5Q might be a good choice.

this is my cpu i picked, looks like the specs dont match up.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

i do plan on overclocking it, mind throwing something else out here as well   ?

matx or atx?

Well, here's an atx board.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

The case i bought is here: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/ite...

either or works.

btw i think my cpu is of right choice, it is solid and i hear its good to overclock. i dont think i will have trouble playing any games with it.

I'd go with Gigabyte on this one. It's tried and tested and you're guaranteed to get a nice big OC out of the cpu. I'd go for the GA-EP35-DS3L or the GA-EP43-DS3L unless you want to go big, so get the p45 version. I've reached so far 3,83Ghz OC perfectly stable on my EP43 and I still haven't messed with the memory or NB voltages or the GPU. There's great potential in this chip.

Well, I have a Gigabyte matx board that's really nice. Your better off with the Asus board though. I would have gotten Asus but they didn't have a matx board with voltage control in my price range. They only have really good one that cost a lot.

The gigabyte board I have costed me $53 dollars to get to 3.9 ghz. If you want to try it out it's really good, but read up on the features to make sure it has everything you want/need.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Idk, I kind of miss that Asus board I had to return. If I could use ATX or had a higher budget for that $150 board it would have been nice.

yes i have a budget too, i rlly want to keep it on the low. this pc will be my forever pc lol, i will have it for a long time so i want to make sure everything is up to par =]

correct me if im wrong but don't the FSBs need to match on cpu and mobo?

Yeah, the Gigabyte matx board is totally worth it. I wouldn't spend much money for a board and that cpu. Not necessary, and it's a perfect board really. As long it has everything you want, then it's really nice. Although, just one thing kind of got to me. It only supports two fans, one for your cpu and one for you case. So, if your running more then one system fan, you need a splitter like this. You could plug it into your power supply, but then it runs at full speed.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $1.59 <--- seriously, if you don't have a $1.59... It enables two system fans to be run. Buy as many as you need. It's irritating for me cause to ship it by itself is not worth it.

No. And your going to oc anyways, your going to need a board with a higher fsb for your overclock.

Thanks for working with me on this, i have never overclocked before but do i need to overclock before i put it in the case to match the speeds?

i believe riva tuner is what is needed to OC?

i was looking forward for this board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

if there are any others, and ill keep yours in mind matx =] then shoot.

Why get the EP35?? For 2-3 dollars more, you can get the EP43 which is basically the same but has the much better ICH10 instead of 9. The max fsb is 1600 which is more than enough for a good OC and it supports ddr2 up to 1200 OC which is enough. Plus it has all solid capacitors and it's designed to use all the new power saving options for the new 45nm CPUs.

thats what im getting, not a bad setup. now time for the ram =]

blashyrkh, both motherboards were sold out! aye yaghy

I am doing my first DIY right now and I am using the same CPU and the ASUS board below. I paired them based off of recommendations in the New System Build section in Homebuilt Forum.

It isn't sold out at the moment. $99 after MIR.

ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Lol. Looks like your going to have to wait. G.Skill, Corsair, Crucial, and OCZ are good brands of RAM to get. Stay away from generic ones.