mATX core 2 duo motherboard?

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Skott

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ASUS has two mobos that are pretty decent from what I hear. Forget their model numbers. The HadForum talks about them in their SFF section. I think AMD still reins supreme in this area though for a OCing mATX mobo. Read the entire thread/s though because at first the users couldnt get the mobos to OC till they figured out they needed to change the PCI settings to over 100.

Edit: P5B VM is one of them. Just now remebered the model. I think the other is a P5N series. Not sure.
 
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over 100? weird. I'm trying to playback HD-DVD and it is still stuttering, even at half res. maxing out my stock x2 4200+. Most benchmarks show the e6300 @ stock beating the x2 3800, 4200 and 4600 in almost every benchmark.

so there really aren't any that do any o/c at all?

I just want something reasonable on default voltage
like an e6300 @ 2.4 or e6400 @ 2.8?

for hd-dvd playback and 1080i mpeg-2 .ts files

even the e6400 @ 2.5ish would kill the x2's right?
 
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looks like I should expect around 330 fsb out of that asus board, which puts an e6400 @ 2640 mhz which would beat all the x2's (even the 5000+) at stock and the e6600 at stock in almost all encoding, application benchmarks
 
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Skott

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No, they overclock. The P5B VM has to have its pci setting raised past 100. Posts I read people were setting it 1110-120. Then they were able to get 300+ fsb out of it. The other Conroe mATX was able to do 300 out of the box from what I understand. Not sure what its topend was. Put a E6600 in it and you got a mATX OCed to 3.0GHz. Not too bad. But yeah as far as cheapest chip OCed then the AMD mATX still rules. 2.7GHz I think I read with a 3800 X2. Not 100% on that. I didnt read too much into AMD mATX. Go to ardForum and read their SFF section for better details.

The stock E6300 supposedly about an equivalent to a 4200 X2 I have heard in performance. AMD's only title claim is its cheaper price but considering the OCing potential of the 6300 on a good OCing mobo sorta defeats that claim IMO. Conroe mobos typically have a better upgrade path but not sure if the Conroe mATX mobos are Quadcore compatible. If they then heck with the AMD chips definetely go Conroe.
 
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Originally posted by: Skott But yeah as far as cheapest chip OCed then the AMD mATX still rules. 2.7GHz I think I read with a 3800 X2. Not 100% on that. I didnt read too much into AMD mATX. Go to ardForum and read their SFF section for better details.
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Abit nF-M2 has done 3.1-3.2GHz that I know of & possibly more.

 
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Gary Key

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If you do not want to overclock then we are having good results with the Biostar P4M890-M7 PCI-E at this time. It is a barebone board but is very affordable.

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Originally posted by: Gary Key
If you do not want to overclock then we are having good results with the Biostar P4M890-M7 PCI-E at this time. It is a barebone board but is very affordable.

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I remember reading that you guys were working on a Conroe mATX roundup. Is that still in the works? I've personally been somewhat waiting for this myself.
 
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Gary Key

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Originally posted by: lordbob99
Originally posted by: Gary Key
If you do not want to overclock then we are having good results with the Biostar P4M890-M7 PCI-E at this time. It is a barebone board but is very affordable.

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I remember reading that you guys were working on a Conroe mATX roundup. Is that still in the works? I've personally been somewhat waiting for this myself.
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Yes, it is. I was getting ready to make a general post about it. I have to admit that the AMD AM2 boards outnumber our Conroe boards by 3:1 and to a certain degree are more mature. The Intel based mATX boards are very slow in arriving at this time although we have three or four coming in December now.
 
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Are there any conroe boards that do not include intergrated graphics? I realize this not
typical of mATX boards, but I do not want something intergrated that I am not going to use.

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lordbob99

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Originally posted by: Gary Key
Originally posted by: lordbob99
Originally posted by: Gary Key
If you do not want to overclock then we are having good results with the Biostar P4M890-M7 PCI-E at this time. It is a barebone board but is very affordable.

Pic
Click to expand...

I remember reading that you guys were working on a Conroe mATX roundup. Is that still in the works? I've personally been somewhat waiting for this myself.
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Yes, it is. I was getting ready to make a general post about it. I have to admit that the AMD AM2 boards outnumber our Conroe boards by 3:1 and to a certain degree are more mature. The Intel based mATX boards are very slow in arriving at this time although we have three or four coming in December now.
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Any update on this? I'm currently running the ECS via based matx board, and would like to see what other matx contro options are on their way...
 
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Skott

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Yeah, any info on that new ABIT Conroe mATX would be welcome news. IB-90 HD I think it is? Forget its model name.
 
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