Excellent AnandTech article on Conroe motherboards

[MplsBob]

AnandTech has an excellent article about choosing your Conroe mother board. In it they tested eight different motherboards. You might want to read it before you buy.

Also, NewEgg is limiting purchasers to a max of one or two boards, depending upon which motherboard. You might want to buy early and avoid the rush They could run out if supplies are limited.

 

[Trey22]

July 19th, 2006.

Create a poll to see who hasn't seen that article that is considering a Conroe setup.

 

[Some1ne]

Yeah...I think they were overly critical of the Asus P5B, and not critical enough of the P5W's funky SATA/RAID implementation.

 

[dexvx]

Article does not include the many 965 chipset based boards out now.

 

[dakotagts]

So before I jump off a cliff, what are some of the STOCK boards that will take IDE drives?

It seems that the P965's all have a PATA port, but is that the same as IDE???

The problem is that I heard of the 965"s only supporting SATA plugins, which is a problem if you have IDE Optical drives...


Ohh, STOCK = not overclocking so I dont need the board with good clocking Bios, rather a stable and low temp board for stock settings.

 

[Some1ne]

It seems that the P965's all have a PATA port, but is that the same as IDE???

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA

 

[dakotagts]

then what the heck was someone saying about no IDE ports, and what the heck is one port with 2 ata spots?

 

[Some1ne]

then what the heck was someone saying about no IDE ports

I dunno...who said it, and in what context? Quite possibly they just didn't know what they were talking about, or maybe there is a 965 board somewhere that does not include any IDE connectors at all, though that seems very unlikely.

and what the heck is one port with 2 ata spots?

Come again, without the confusion?

 

[Auric]

Blatant shilling for newegg is shameful. The article is just as bad representing an advertiser's price gouging as "street price". AT credibility -1. Now I can't be bothered to read it.

The manufacturer's suggested retail price of the GA-965P-DQ6 is $229 which is currently the average selling price. Normally, competitive pricing is well below MSRP but of course that may be effected by demand exceeding initial supply. In any case, at least one monger was recently selling for a reasonable $213 while others are $225-230 but meanwhile screwegg continues to figure that $280 is appropriate.

Don't be a sucker. Compare prices with froogle, pricegrabber and pricewatch.

 

[MplsBob]

I wasn't shilling for NewEgg, I merely related what my experience of the last few minutes had been. Since I too, was smacked with about a $70 markup as "street price",
my personal enthusiasm for NewEgg has been substantially reduced.