Any upcoming P965 boards look promising for stability and affordability?

[yacoub]

Any news on upcoming budget boards worth looking at for C2D on P965 chipset?

Wait until C2 revision boards of the current crop show up?
Any new boards on the horizon?
Any previews of new c2d boards coming soon on Anandtech?

 

[MattM76]

I too am wondering about this. I'd probably jump on a Conroe (probably E6400) if I could decide on a mobo that offers stability and affordability...

 

[yacoub]

This is what the Intel P965 board was SUPPOSED to be... you know, made by the CPU maker, a giant OEM that you would expect to make a very straightforward product with stability and price its key assets. Instead it seems to be a bit of a problematic P.I.T.A. of a board.

 

[TheSlamma]

I have never had an nVidia board.. I am thinking I want to wait for more 570's and 590's to hit and see how they do.. the 975 just seems like overkill but the 965 as you stated seems wy too flake.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: yacoub
This is what the Intel P965 board was SUPPOSED to be... you know, made by the CPU maker, a giant OEM that you would expect to make a very straightforward product with stability and price its key assets. Instead it seems to be a bit of a problematic P.I.T.A. of a board.

Keep in mind that most of us here are overclocking and/or otherwise running the machine outside specifications. By all accounts the Intel boards are rock solid. When you start overclocking, all bets are off.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Actually the Asus P5B is really nice. I've worked with it just don't own one. Get the right memory (i.e. NO OCZ) and it's fine.

 

[fire400]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: yacoub
This is what the Intel P965 board was SUPPOSED to be... you know, made by the CPU maker, a giant OEM that you would expect to make a very straightforward product with stability and price its key assets. Instead it seems to be a bit of a problematic P.I.T.A. of a board.

Keep in mind that most of us here are overclocking and/or otherwise running the machine outside specifications. By all accounts the Intel boards are rock solid. When you start overclocking, all bets are off.

haha I couldn't put it better myself. it'll be a few months until we might actually be seeing an express version of the 865 at a lower cost, but I mean, the technology may or may not change signifigantly, and the prices only a few dollars lower?

might as well slow down on the highway so we can save our pennies to get that 975, work the extra shifts or stop buying too much money wasting junkfood. if you set aside one weekend to put in ten hours a day for 2 of the days, you'll hit 200 bucks for ten bucks an hour. find those nickels under your bed, and you got the overkill motherboard you always dreamed of. it's not like we're buying the XTX series.
if you're a true fan, you just go all out on things you can only dream of, so don't be lazy and settle for crap that can't overclock as your primary rig.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: fire400

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: yacoub
This is what the Intel P965 board was SUPPOSED to be... you know, made by the CPU maker, a giant OEM that you would expect to make a very straightforward product with stability and price its key assets. Instead it seems to be a bit of a problematic P.I.T.A. of a board.

Keep in mind that most of us here are overclocking and/or otherwise running the machine outside specifications. By all accounts the Intel boards are rock solid. When you start overclocking, all bets are off.

haha I couldn't put it better myself. it'll be a few months until we might actually be seeing an express version of the 865 at a lower cost, but I mean, the technology may or may not change signifigantly, and the prices only a few dollars lower?

might as well slow down on the highway so we can save our pennies to get that 975, work the extra shifts or stop buying too much money wasting junkfood. if you set aside one weekend to put in ten hours a day for 2 of the days, you'll hit 200 bucks for ten bucks an hour. find those nickels under your bed, and you got the overkill motherboard you always dreamed of. it's not like we're buying the XTX series.
if you're a true fan, you just go all out on things you can only dream of, so don't be lazy and settle for crap that can't overclock as your primary rig.

I think that $150 or so for a DS3 or a P5B to be reasonable. I just think the cooling solution (no active fan or heatpipe) is lacking severely. The boards can do up to 400+ FSB easily, but there's a heat issue when you try to give a little voltage for stability and the board becomes problematic as a result. I don't like having to replace the heatsink or adding a fan right away when the manufacturer should have put the proper cooling on it to start. The DQ6 or the P5B Deluxe have heatpipe cooling which is much better, but they're as much money as a 975x motherboard which would be better all around IMO.

 

[FreedomGUNDAM]

i'm looking at the Biostar TForce 965 Deluxe motherboard. Heard it is really stable and with the proper BIOS can o/c to 530 FSB 1:1.