Need advice! g31 board

[gaborell]

Im planning to buy new pc

and im kinda confuse wich one to take.. i chose the Gigabyte model ga-g31m-es2l or ga-g31m-es2c

whats the difference between es2c? and es2l?

a e5300

9800gt or gt220 or 4670

with atleast 4gig ram.

is gigaybyte ga-g31m-es2l / ga-g31m-es2c ok?

or will you suggest a better board cheap and efficient please.

 

[jsc]

Those are older boards. Get the later G41 board if you are going this route.

The G41 is not as good of an overclocker as the EP45-UD3 is, but it appreciably less expensive.

Currently, newegg has the ES2L for less than $60:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128388

 

[bilbat]

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_ComparisonSheet.aspx?ProductID=3135,3134
Looks like the only appreciable difference is the gigabit LAN on the ES2L...

 

[gaborell]

the g41 board is not available in our country howbout asus p5kpl am ps? someone did oc the e5300 3.5g and uses stock cooler.. im in a tight budget sad to say.. thanks for the reply!

 

[tcsenter]

Intel G31/P31 chipset is hard limited to 4GB total RAM. Many G31/P31 boards do not implement memory remapping and will be limited to 3.25 GB when 4GB is installed, maybe a little more or less, depending on other hardware addressing space needs.

Further, any G31/P31 boards that have four DIMM sockets will have an additional limitation in that when installing four modules, all four must be single-rank or single-sided.

 

[gaborell]

so whats my best option???

 

[bilbat]

Where are you? Post some pointers to suppliers you do have access to, and we'll try to advise...

 

[gaborell]

I still need assurance with the ga-g31 es2c/es2l board if this can detect 4gig at maximum dim slot installed!