Looking For A Good LGA775 Board?

[AfroThunder]

I have a good C2Q 8200 that is still good but needs a new Motherboard. I have done a lot of looking around, newegg, etc., but have not seen anything that stuck out as "buy me."

Any good ideas for an ATX board that will play nice with 1 ATI GPU and 4 gigs of DDR2 800Mhz RAM?

Also, I am not crazy but if DDR3 1600 or usb 3.0 were an option I would be interested.

I appreciate the help, maybe someone else is in my same situation and has already found something that would work well...

 

[God Mode]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157175

Your choices go down if you need raid chipset.

 

[perdomot]

This one seems popular: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131232

 

[chuckm]

http://www.microcenter.com/search/se...rt=NewProduct&

 

[schmunk]

I really like my Gigabyte EP45-UD3P. It runs way cooler and more stable than my EVGA 680i or 780i did because of the 65nm chipset and the thicker copper layer. Also supports crossfire and can be moded to run SLI.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I really like my Gigabyte EP45-UD3P. It runs way cooler and more stable than my EVGA 680i or 780i did because of the 65nm chipset and the thicker copper layer. Also supports crossfire and can be moded to run SLI.

Who has it for sale?

 

[schmunk]

Let me google that for you

http://www.google.com/products/cata...og_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CEYQ8wIwAQ#

I would avoid the 750i board that was recomended like the plague! I have had 2 nvidia 680i boards die and one 780i, they seem to work great for about 2 years then nothing. Loved them, but I think the chipsets were flawed. Intel chipsets are great.

ALso, the Nvidia boards I had were very finicky with running 4GB of ram, had to actually flash my OCZ ram with a tool to get it to work. I now use patriot in all the builds I do.

You should go to newegg in the motherboard section and filter on 775 socket and P45 chipset boards. MSI boards are usually very robust, Asus is hit and miss. Read the user reviews to help.

 

[pcmax]

Let me google that for you

http://www.google.com/products/cata...og_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CEYQ8wIwAQ#

I would avoid the 750i board that was recomended like the plague! I have had 2 nvidia 680i boards die and one 780i, they seem to work great for about 2 years then nothing. Loved them, but I think the chipsets were flawed. Intel chipsets are great.

ALso, the Nvidia boards I had were very finicky with running 4GB of ram, had to actually flash my OCZ ram with a tool to get it to work. I now use patriot in all the builds I do.

You should go to newegg in the motherboard section and filter on 775 socket and P45 chipset boards. MSI boards are usually very robust, Asus is hit and miss. Read the user reviews to help.

Yes the EP45 board is a great board however for what looks like $150 based on the google shopping I would strongly suggest the P43 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128467 for $79, much better bang for the buck and yes I have both these boards and both work great overclocking included.

ps. ignore my rig sig, wayyyyyyy outdated

 

[darckhart]

i highly recommend gigabyte ep45 line and abit ip35 line. i have had fantastic stable oc results with both.

 

[schmunk]

One for sale on this forum!

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2134571&highlight=775