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How about Intel Canterwood?

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snowwie

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Intel D875PBZ to be exact

I know it's a sin to consider Intel mobos, especially being the overclocker that I am, but I keep seeing it and I like it a lot

all of the reviews show it winning all of the benchmarks (almost all)
all the sites agree, it performs like hell

and it's intel, so it's stable as hell

I love the layout
simple, not full of all that crap you never use
giant heatsink on the NB
CSA of course (it's amazing how many mobo manufacturers opted out)
most of the USB headers on rear panel, so I don't have to drop another PCI slot to use those damn USB brackets on the back

but of course you can't overclock
I've been pondering over this for a while now, and I honestly wouldn't mind not overclocking a canterwood setup if I got one. Right now, overclocking your 800fsb 3GHz on a canterwood probably gives you very little. DDR400 already gives you plenty of memory bandwidth. Now 800fsb 2.4GHz may be a different story. But we don't know yet. I just love this board though.
 
Agree. If you dont overclock, there is not a better 875 board available. If you do, then you must look elsewhere.
 
I was interested in this board also, although i'm not much of an overclocker, I'd still like to have the option if the OC bug ever bites me....The review on the MSI FIS2R was intersting....it actually bested the Intel in almost all the benchmarks that they ran
 
I don't OC so I'm interested in the Intel too. And it comes with no audio! Very refreshing. But it only has 2 PATA and 2 SATA ports, which is a bit less than I'd like.
 
that's what I love about it

if you play games at all, you know that onboard audio is useless

also, if I want an extra SATA or IDE controller, I like to choose which PCI card to buy, not just the cheapest promise chip that's out there
 
Originally posted by: Junkman
I was interested in this board also, although i'm not much of an overclocker, I'd still like to have the option if the OC bug ever bites me....The review on the MSI FIS2R was intersting....it actually bested the Intel in almost all the benchmarks that they ran
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I ordered the MSI FIS2R, great reviews and extras.
 
Does the Intel 875 Motherboard have built in Serial ATA and Firewire Ports?

How many USB 2.0 Ports does it have?

Jonathan
 
only the built-in stuff on the southbridge I think

ICH5 has 8 USB 2.0 ports (Intel includes 6 on the rear panel, with internal connections for two more)
also has two SATA ports, and I think it's the RAID version too.
no firewire
 
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