Socket 775 choices

[Hubird]

I'm looking for a socket 775 budget motherboard that supports the following:

45 nm processors
PCI-e 2.0 16x (2 full speed slots would be great but prob too expensive)
SATA 300
DDR3 would be nice but not sure if it is worth it

I'm not concerned about over-clocking...

Basically I want something not too expensive, I was looking at the Intel DP45SG but I've seen a lot of people complaining of trouble with it.

I thought it would be easy to find a inexpensive well featured motherboard now that i7's are taking over but it's doing my head in. Every one that I find is way too expensive, no longer available or doe snot have a decent set of features.

 

[Lmeow]

SATA III or SATA 3Gbp/s? If SATA III, I don't belive there is such a board.

DDR3 is only available on some Intel made boards, X48 based boards and 790i Ultra nVidia based boards.

How about the Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R?

 

[Hubird]

SATA 3Gbb/s (aparently SATA II is not the correct name for it).

As for your suggestion, that is very pricey for previous generation technology. I was hoping for something considerably cheaper than that.


I did stumble upon the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R which is considerably cheaper (would not want to pay much more), it does not have DDR3 or two full speed PCI-e slots but I doubt I will do much better.

Any thoughts / problems with that board ??

 

[GhislainG]

SATA 3Gbb/s (aparently SATA II is not the correct name for it).

As for your suggestion, that is very pricey for previous generation technology. I was hoping for something considerably cheaper than that.


I did stumble upon the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R which is considerably cheaper (would not want to pay much more), it does not have DDR3 or two full speed PCI-e slots but I doubt I will do much better.

Any thoughts / problems with that board ??

That Gigabyte motherboard is good, but you can probably get the GA-EP45-UD3P for the same price.

 

[Hubird]

Not sure what the difference with the GA-EP45-UD3P is but it is hard to find.

All suggestions are welcome and will be looked into though...

 

[jsc]

newegg has it.

The "P" supports on board RAID. Good motherboard, easy to overclock - even if it is technically obsolete.