Best motherboard for my intel q9300

[sully3275]

I want to upgrade my motherboard to either asus or some other good mobo. The only mods i have is a new computer case with couple case fans. I need to know what is a good cpu cooler also. I have the G33 motherboard right now and the socket is 775

 

[Maziar]

How much do you want to pay for the motherboard and CPU cooler ?

 

[jsc]

I like the Gigabyte P45's. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer available.

I have one of these (good overclocker):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128372

That's if you plan on using DDR2 RAM with it. If you plan on using DDR3 RAM with it, get one of the P45T models.

 

[hundredislandsboy]

Asus P5Q SE PLUS is what i use for my Q9400, completely stable OC'd to 3.2 Ghz on 1600 Mhz FSB. Prior to that the mobo ran my E8400 all the way to a 2000 Mhz FSB stable but I didn't like the extra vcore so I settled for 1600 Mhz FSB.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

The Gigabyte EP45 series as well as the Asus P5 series are about as good as you can get. Either should work fine and both are great overclockers.

hunderedislandsboy I think you are confused? 2000mhz FSB on a Core2?? My FSB is at 400mhz with a 9x multi.

 

[hundredislandsboy]

Oh yeah, I'm very sure.

Futuremark thinks my e8400 ran to 4.5 Ghz because it assumes I kept the stock multiplier bu I ran 8 X 500 front side bus.

Operating system Microsoft Windows XP
System type 32-bit
Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard model P5Q SE PLUS
Hard drive model SAMSUNG HD321KJ
Memory 3328 MB
Module 1 2048 MB
Module 2 2048 MB
Processor information
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E8400
Processor clock 4500 MHz
Physical / logical processors 1 / 2
Multicore 2 Processor Cores
FSB 502 MHz

This is my 3DMark06 score validated @

http://service.futuremark.com/results/showSingleResult.action?resultId=10779061&resultType=14

If the link doesn't work the Project ID ## is 10779061

 

[hundredislandsboy]

I was also able to run my Asus P5N-D to a 2000 Mhz FSB stable!