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[Solved] Best motherboards for Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz

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Tin   02-02-2009 at 10:40:37 PM

Hi!!!

I'm looking forward to buy an Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz.

I want to know what's the best motherboard for this processor, (motherboard budget US$200), also it would be good to know which RAM to use (RAM budget US$130).

Thanks.

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Yea Gigabyte UD3R will do the job,
Ram, go with G.Skills top 2(2x2gb) ram, usually i would say OCZ Reapers but, G.Skills will be fine at DDR2 800 (PC2 6400).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231122

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231209
This one has tighter timings on the Clock.

Cheap, your pick.

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Bronze Motherboards badge GhislainG   02-03-2009 at 04:52:22 AM

You should define your requirements and then ask which motherboard would best meet them. Tell us if you need Crossfire or SLI, how much memory you need, what OS, etc.

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Tin   02-04-2009 at 02:00:29 AM

For now I don't need SLI but it's good to leave the option open for the future (Graphics Card: EVGA 512-P3-N884-AR GeForce 9800 GTX+ Superclocked Edition 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16) 2Gb of RAM, Windows XP Professional 32bit until Win7.

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caniba   02-04-2009 at 02:37:48 PM

Then definitely go with the Gigabyte EP45-UD3R. Great value, great board, stable, super easy to OC.

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fullmetall   02-04-2009 at 02:55:05 PM
Best answer

Yea Gigabyte UD3R will do the job,
Ram, go with G.Skills top 2(2x2gb) ram, usually i would say OCZ Reapers but, G.Skills will be fine at DDR2 800 (PC2 6400).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231122

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231209
This one has tighter timings on the Clock.

Cheap, your pick.

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natsibley   04-03-2009 at 11:03:56 PM

This board doesn't leave the option open for SLI does it? It only has 1 PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot.

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Tin   04-08-2009 at 05:59:46 AM

Yes the Gigabyte UD3R it just have 1 PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot.

Let me tell you that I tried the Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz on two mobos: Gigabyte UD3R and MSI P6N SLI Platinum and the performance of the processor on the MSI is way better, u can notice the performance at once you don't have to run too much tests to compare and see the difference, I did not like the Gigabyte UD3R, for now on I will stick to MSI or ASUS mobos.

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