[Solved] What's the best mainboard for Q6600

I need to buy a new mainboard for my Q6600. My Asus-P5Q is death and I am out of warranty. I want spend a max of 100$.

Please which mainboard would you suggest? I found some answers from 2007 here but obviously I am not interested in 3 year old suggestions...

Thanks

The warranty for the P5Q is three years. Currently the best available chipset is P45.

http://support.asus.com/repair/rep [...] uage=en-us

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131297

RMA request Form:

http://vip.asus.com/eservice/usa_rmaserv.aspx

Call support: Tel: 510-739-3777 option 2

@Gitchi I didnt want to post the whole story, but I just went to repair my board and when I drove back on a motorbike taxi, the bike hit another car (me on his back) and my brand new board (which was just exchanged) fell down and broke. So no warranty.

Maziar, Yes I plan to do so. I clocked my Q6600 with my P5Q to 3.2Ghz and would like to use that config again. Important is that it has 4 memory slots (got only 1GB RAM sets)

I look at the moment at P5QL PRO - http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=YYermRswb7n46yAX

The problem always is that they not show what options the bios has and I am really worried to buy a board with bad clock options.

Appreciate your answers =)

Jow

I forgot to mention that I use 4 SATA HDD's. 2x250 - 1x 500 and 1x 1000GB.

That GA-EP45-UD3L looks interesting and its not expensive too. I've got a G0 stepping Q6600 too but never went all the way to 3.6Ghz.
3.2 is enough for me =)

I will buy the board in 17 hours from now and I hope to get a few more board suggestions,
especially from Q6600 users.

any other ideas?

Best answer selected by jowunger.

I have managed to go on 3.2 GHz. with that MB and CPU.
Can you please share with me how did you do it.

Hey guys!

What's a good Motherboard for Q6600 (NO Overclock) and Crossfire 4870 (2 x XFX HD4870)??? Hopefully the most Performance for Cost one!

Thanks!