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I don't want to overclock, one video card is enough

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jimmyj68

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By what I've read thus far, the boards out there now are being judged on their overclocking capability. When memory is talked about, overclocking again is the central judging parameter.

I have no intention to overclock my coming 6600. How do I determine the best conroe board out there and the memory for it?

In the past I've used Intel boards because they weren't jury rigged for overclocking. I'm biased because I think boards capable of large overclocks are also as skittish as a high strung racing stallion. I want to plug CPU and memory into the board with a good video card and hard drive and go - no fiddiling and diddiling just to get the thing to post.

I'm also concerned that folks like Asus and Gigabyte et al put there quality efforts into the boards with all the bells and whistles and slack off as the bells and whistles (read price) go down in number. Should I wait for Intel to bring out a solid middle of the road board for 965 or try one of the "middle of the road" boards from Asus or Gigabyte - Abit was asleep at the switch when they installed the IDE connector.

And here's hoping that Intel will stick an IDE controller on a board.
 
Yeah I'm in the same boat: Considering upgrading but not interested in the expense of a high-end board. I don't care about overclocking either. Just something stable, reliable, and featureful with the expected items: one PCI-E x16, SATA 3GB, USB 2.0, at least one IDE connector, DDR2-800 or better, and no moving parts (passive chipset/mosfet cooling).

What are our options? What's the Conroe board that meets these needs? No drama, no onboard video, no SLI, no need for overclocking prowess.

That Intel board looks good and solid but I'd want to read some owner reviews.
 
hey guys make some room cause i need on the same boat. i just need a basic board for no OC'ing and one video card. just want a stable platform for a 6300 and probably 1gb ddr2 ram. possibly 2gb.

any recomendations ?
 
That Intel board was what i was waiting for - didn't expect it until maybe mid August. My order is placed with the Egg. They didn't have that board up yesterday. Thanks NINaudio:thumbsup:
 
Let me know how it is when you get it. I may use that to upgrade my friend's pc. Waiting on some reviews, either professional or owner based.
 
Oddly enough, I can't find this board on the Egg using normal search parameters. I placed my order using the link provided by NINaudio. How did you place your order cRaz Ydood? How did you discover the board NiNaudio?

I read through all of the technical data on Intels web site and the board looks good. Solidly built and engineered. Basic build and board layout differs very little from my D945PSNLK I'm currently running. I opted to get DDR2 800 rather than use the 667 I have in the 945, I suspect the board would run with 667 but they don't say so. Maybe I'll try it and see what happens but I prefer having the board run with DDR2 800 memory.

I won't be mounting the board until my E6600 shows up from TankGuys. Hopefully that will be by mid August. Truth be known I'm too lazy to tear my system down, install the new board with my D940 CPU and then have to go through the whole thing again when the C2D shows up. Part of the problem - - - I dumped a P160 case for a new Solo. The P160 was aluminum. The solo empty weighs almost 21 lbs. The totally constructed system weighs enough to have taken a toll on my 70 year old back while I fiddled with different fan arrangements. Took over a week to get my back to normal again.

Well now I have two scythe 92 mm fans in front undervolted at 7 volts, the 1600 RPM Scythe Sony bearing fan in the back at exhaust running full speed, and the Scythe ninja on the CPU mounted passively. I haven't done a real stress test, but Everest says at idle my motherboard temp is 42, CPU 42, GPU 61, Samsung 160 gig SATA 42, Hitachi 80 gig 34. Go figure - - - -. I'm comfortable with those temps because the system is real quiet with a slight wind noise from the perforations at the exhaust side of the rear fan.
 
I also noticed that it wasn't showing up on neweggs search earlier.

I bought it through the link posted earlier.

It is showing up on newegg's search now.
 
You know you can get the gigabyte ds3 board for $144 😛

good board and it oc's well. (I know you dont care thats why I put it there)
 
🙂 😉 :music: :wine: :roll:

Just because the Gigabyte board is overclock capable is why i reject it. But thanks for the thought! :cookie:
 
From what I can tell, the Intel board doesn't support RAID. It seems like every "mid-range" Conroe board I've run across is missing something.

Is it unreasonable to expect a Conroe board in the $100-150 range that supports RAID and firewire?
 
Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
that's the catch!!-the cpu is cheap for the performance BUT, you must buy a $300 mobo.

no thank you, intel.
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They're just milking the early adopters right now, give it a couple months and prices will normalize.
 
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