Micro-ATX motherboards for E8400 at stock with one PCI-E 2.0 x16 ?

[DaveSimmons]

I'm thinking of giving in to the temptation of a 4870 and E8400 to replace my aging X2 4200+ and 7900GT, and possibly trying to go small with an X-Qpack2 since they fit 12" cards.

This will be a gaming system, it just needs to support a single dual-slot video card (ATI 4870 or GTX 260), 2 hard drives (not in RAID) and 4 GB DDR2. Decent onboard audio is a plus, as is a PATA port for a DVD drive.

I don't see any P43/P45 (edit: or G43/G45) micro-atx boards at newegg yet, are they due Real Soon Now?

If I can't stand to wait, what are the recommended mATX boards for a stock E8400?

 

[Heidfirst]

other than the DFI I don't know if there will be any other mATX P43/45s, mATX tend to have IGP so that would be G43/G45.

think that Asus P5K-VM is the current favourite mATX but I could be wrong.

 

[Skott]

Latest info is July/August. It looks like the new DFI is going to have a price tag of just under $200. No word yet on ASUS and Gigabyte models.

http://www.*****.com/DFI-LP-Jr-P45-T3RS-DDR3-CrossFire-Micro-ATX-Motherboard-p-660.html

Actually the P5E-VM HDMI is the more popular mobo currently. The P5K-VM is still a very worthy mobo though. If you need something now I'd suggest one of those two.
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[DaveSimmons]

July/August for G43/G45? "But I'm angry nowwwwww" -- Homer at the gun shop

I wanted to finally build a QPack2 system, but I'm not sure if I can resist upgrade fever for a month or two to get PCI-E 2.0.

 

[Skott]

IMO PCIe 2.0 isnt all that. v1.0 hasnt even been maxed out yet. No word yet on when ASUS and Gigabyte make their G45 launch. I'd have to go back and find the info but I think DFI launch is sometime July now. There was a schedule floating around recently. The thing that makes the DFI so hot to look at is CF setup.

 

[Skott]

Here it is... Late July

http://forums.extremeoverclock...p=3125405&postcount=11

 

[Gary Key]

Intel commences production of the G45 chipset in the third week of July, boards will hit retail in August. I am still waiting on DFI to verify their schedule from Computex in regards to the P45/P43 uATX boards, expect to see ASRock and maybe a couple of others follow suit.