Need to sort out Mobo for Build, last component b4 BUY :D

GLeN · Jan 2, 2008

I overlooked the mobo in my build and today i was going to buy mysetup then luckily relised the lack of attention I gave to it. So finally if i get this sorta i will have my first build in my grasp :respect:

So just browsing through the same site Im ordering the majority of my parts from I found this. Honestly I dont have a clue what each means :laugh:

Basically i want it to be lower than £80gbp around 60-70 is more comfortable. I dont care about sli, It will be used via ethernet cable so wifi isnt a factor. I willbe using a core 2 duo cpu that will be ocd, will be upgrading to quad core soon though, will be using 800mhz ballistix ram wantto oc them too :rockout:

. thanks as much of i can think right now. Im not limited to that site but any uk or ireland site would do me fine. If i get this sorted i will be buying everything except vid card and ram this week :laugh:

Thanks in advance guys, Happy new year!

Asus P5N-E SLI 650i £66.36
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/125082/
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=925&cid=3

ASUS P5K-VM AiLifestyle £70.16
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132097

ASUS P5KC AiLifestyle Series £72.62
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132275

ASUS P5K AiLifestyle Series £68.58
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/129125

Gigabyte GA P35C DS3R £77.81
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131173

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 £70.33
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/136363

ABIT AB9 Pro iP965 £79.99
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/116163

pt · Jan 2, 2008

any chance in getting the dfi blood iron?

GLeN · Jan 2, 2008

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132698

This it? Yeh if its really worth it hehehe

panchoman · Jan 2, 2008

well in general, with dfi, you gotta know your way a bios preety well. if thats not the case, you're better off with the

Gigabyte GA P35C DS3R £77.81
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131173

as long as you dont plan on using 4 gigs of memory.

oli_ramsay · Jan 2, 2008

I would go with the blood iron MoBo, I'm gonna do the same as soon as I get some cash. I've seen people get some mental overclocking results with this board 690FSB+
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2661746
Not sure what cooling he used on the NB/SB because the sock one looks a bit small. Apart from that, looks like an awesome board.
http://www.overclock.net/intel-motherboards/251387-dfi-blood-iron-thread.html
^^^ There's another thread about the board.

Good Luck

PaulieG · Jan 2, 2008

pt said:
any chance in getting the dfi blood iron?

I'm running the Gigabyte DS3R in my primary rig and the DFI Blood Iron in my second. Both are great boards. Gigabyte is awesome when it comes to stability. DFI has the best tweaking bios in the business. So many choices to fine tune, but it does take some time to get used to it.

GLeN · Jan 2, 2008

panchoman said:
well in general, with dfi, you gotta know your way a bios preety well. if thats not the case, you're better off with the

Gigabyte GA P35C DS3R £77.81
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131173

as long as you dont plan on using 4 gigs of memory.

I was planning to upgrade to 4 gigs later on? Why what will happen :eek:

As for the blood iron, i seem to want to stay as far a way from the bios at first haha

Deleted member 24505 · Jan 2, 2008

What about this?-http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-131-AB&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913--abit ip35

Richieb0y · Jan 2, 2008

panchoman said:
well in general, with dfi, you gotta know your way a bios preety well. if thats not the case, you're better off with the

Gigabyte GA P35C DS3R £77.81
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131173

as long as you dont plan on using 4 gigs of memory.

what will happen i run that board whit 4gig of ram and no problem here
but can u plzz tell me thx

keakar · Jan 2, 2008

GLeN said:
I overlooked the mobo in my build and today i was going to buy mysetup then luckily relised the lack of attention I gave to it. So finally if i get this sorta i will have my first build in my grasp So just browsing through the same site Im ordering the majority of my parts from I found this. Honestly I dont have a clue what each means Basically i want it to be lower than £80gbp around 60-70 is more comfortable. I dont care about sli, It will be used via ethernet cable so wifi isnt a factor. I willbe using a core 2 duo cpu that will be ocd, will be upgrading to quad core soon though, will be using 800mhz ballistix ram wantto oc them too . thanks as much of i can think right now. Im not limited to that site but any uk or ireland site would do me fine. If i get this sorted i will be buying everything except vid card and ram this week

Thanks in advance guys, Happy new year!

ASUS P5K AiLifestyle Series £68.58
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/129125

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 £70.33
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/136363

either of these two would be a good choice but i prefer the Gigabyte

keakar · Jan 2, 2008

panchoman said:
well in general, with dfi, you gotta know your way a bios preety well. if thats not the case, you're better off with the

Gigabyte GA P35C DS3R £77.81
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131173

as long as you dont plan on using 4 gigs of memory.

AFAIK the ASUS P5KC and the GA P35C boards are both for ddr3 ram only unless you limit it to only 2 slots? at least thats the way i understood it in the specs from manufacturer. all 4 slots can use ddr3 but only 2 can run ddr2.

panchoman · Jan 2, 2008

GLeN said:
I was planning to upgrade to 4 gigs later on? Why what will happen

As for the blood iron, i seem to want to stay as far a way from the bios at first haha

gigabyte bios's currently have a flaw which causes the board to not work very well with 4 gigs of ram, especcially wiht a 64 bit OS, so if you wanted to use 4 gigs of ram, especcially with a 64 bit os, the bios may give you some trouble. HOWEVER, gigabyte is working on a bios update which should fix the problem. so unless if you're getting 4 gigs of ram atm, i'd say stick with 2 for now, and get 4 once the bios update comes out.

GLeN · Jan 2, 2008

If said supported ram ddrII and III I have no intent to use ddr3 in the mean time so i dont care about that hehe.

Ok it comes down to the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/136363/show_product_specifications and GA-P35C-DS3R http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131173/show_product_specifications
So is it worth the extra 8 gbp for the Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R

panchoman · Jan 2, 2008

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2E16813128067,N82E16813128048,N82E16813128064

i'd like to recommend GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3P Rev 2.0 just cause its rev 2( not sure whats the difference between the original and rev 2 but yeah) and it supports all ddr2 1066 natively & its got dual x16 slots and its in between the other 2 boards you pointed out so yeah.

tkpenalty · Jan 2, 2008

Okay, out of all the motherboards I'd purchse the GA P35 DS3 Rev 2.0. Reason being that this board is VERY stable and is a massive overclocker. Moreover on the other boards; GA P35 DS3P, etcetra. The Crossfire setup is not a 16x by 16x but a 16x by 4x thanks to the P35 chipset limitations, thus even AMD said that crossfire is rather hampered with 16x by 4x.

GLeN said:
If said supported ram ddrII and III I have no intent to use ddr3 in the mean time so i dont care about that hehe.

Ok it comes down to the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/136363/show_product_specifications and GA-P35C-DS3R http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131173/show_product_specifications
So is it worth the extra 8 gbp for the Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R

Lets have a look, the P35C DS3R compared to the P35 DS3. First off the P35C DS3R isn't much of a stellar overclocker, it brings two more JMircon SATA two ports and an extra set of DDRIII slots. However, it's not much of an overclocker thanks to the chipset supporting more than usual; meaning that stability suffers. The board can only do around 450FSB, which is rather low for a P35 board. Now, we look at the P35 DS3, its basically the same board without those features which are rather useless in my opinion, do you really need an extra two SATA ports when you already have six? Do you really need DDRIII when its extremely expensive? I don't think so and even 8 quid can do a lot. Therefore go with the GA P35 DS3.
Err with what you save, I'd get something like a new tube of thermal paste, or some case fans.

panchoman said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2E16813128067,N82E16813128048,N82E16813128064

i'd like to recommend GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3P Rev 2.0 just cause its rev 2( not sure whats the difference between the original and rev 2 but yeah) and it supports all ddr2 1066 natively & its got dual x16 slots and its in between the other 2 boards you pointed out so yeah.

Hes in UK if you didnt notice.

panchoman · Jan 2, 2008

tkpenalty said:
Hes in UK if you didnt notice.

i did notice, i use newegg so that i could show him the specs of multiple gigabyte p35 boards side by side.

tkpenalty · Jan 2, 2008

panchoman said:
i did notice, i use newegg so that i could show him the specs of multiple gigabyte p35 boards side by side.

Its clearly out of his price range btw, and as I said, crossfire is a rather redundant premium that he probably wont come around to using.

Darren · Jan 3, 2008

GLeN said:
I overlooked the mobo in my build and today i was going to buy mysetup then luckily relised the lack of attention I gave to it. So finally if i get this sorta i will have my first build in my grasp So just browsing through the same site Im ordering the majority of my parts from I found this. Honestly I dont have a clue what each means Basically i want it to be lower than £80gbp around 60-70 is more comfortable. I dont care about sli, It will be used via ethernet cable so wifi isnt a factor. I willbe using a core 2 duo cpu that will be ocd, will be upgrading to quad core soon though, will be using 800mhz ballistix ram wantto oc them too . thanks as much of i can think right now. Im not limited to that site but any uk or ireland site would do me fine. If i get this sorted i will be buying everything except vid card and ram this week

Thanks in advance guys, Happy new year!

Asus P5N-E SLI 650i £66.36
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/125082/
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=925&cid=3

ASUS P5K-VM AiLifestyle £70.16
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132097

ASUS P5KC AiLifestyle Series £72.62
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132275

ASUS P5K AiLifestyle Series £68.58
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/129125

Gigabyte GA P35C DS3R £77.81
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131173

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 £70.33
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/136363

ABIT AB9 Pro iP965 £79.99
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/116163

I'd reduce the motherboard budget by half, spend £40 on a motherboard and spend the extra £40 saved on a better processor or graphics card version.

pt · Jan 3, 2008

you obviously don't overclock

panchoman · Jan 3, 2008

http://microdirect.co.uk/(29126)Gigabyte-motherboard-GA-X38DS4-LGA775-Intel.aspx
...

Darren · Jan 3, 2008

pt said:
you obviously don't overclock

I overclock on a budget :laugh:

Pikem4n · Jan 25, 2008

Hi guys

I am bidding on a GA-P35C-DS3R motherboard (currently winning atm!) and i have read some pretty negative feedback about the said board, which has kind of put me off the board now so my question is - what is the main issue with it and is it a wise move to buy it?

Pikeman.

Darren · Jan 26, 2008

Pikem4n said:
Hi guys

I am bidding on a GA-P35C-DS3R motherboard (currently winning atm!) and i have read some pretty negative feedback about the said board, which has kind of put me off the board now so my question is - what is the main issue with it and is it a wise move to buy it?

Pikeman.

I read one review, and it scored well - Suppose it has all the key features, supports dual and quad core and both DDR2 and DDR3. Whether it's good depends on what you want to achieve with it.

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2326&cid=6&pg=9

Pikem4n · Jan 26, 2008

Darren said:
I read one review, and it scored well - Suppose it has all the key features, supports dual and quad core and both DDR2 and DDR3. Whether it's good depends on what you want to achieve with it.

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2326&cid=6&pg=9

Hi darren

Yeah i have checked the reviews, and it seems a pretty damn good mobo on paper, but i have seen that alot of people who have bought this board, have had somekind of problem with booting the system and , i am going to build a system solely to play games on and nothing else, it is kind of worrying that if i buy the board (especially off ebay) that it wont work properly.

Just hoping someone outbids me as i am still the winning bidder- i am really put off by these negative comments i see lol

Darren · Jan 26, 2008

Pikem4n said:
Hi darren

Yeah i have checked the reviews, and it seems a pretty damn good mobo on paper, but i have seen that alot of people who have bought this board, have had somekind of problem with booting the system and , i am going to build a system solely to play games on and nothing else, it is kind of worrying that if i buy the board (especially off ebay) that it wont work properly.

Just hoping someone outbids me as i am still the winning bidder- i am really put off by these negative comments i see lol

Stop bidding. Try to find the same board or better elsewhere from a computer retailer, that way you get full warranty.

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