Need motherboard for $70 or less to hit 3.0ghz with E2180?

[quadomatic]

Can someone give me a tip for the cheapest motherboard I can get so that I can hit 3ghz with an E2180?

Thanks

 

[BlueAcolyte]

what other features do you want? IP-35E or GA-P35-DS3L. spend a bit more ($20) for the DFi blood iron if you want.

 

[quadomatic]

I just want to spend less than $70 on the mobo. The only "feature" I can think of is PCI Express.

 

[Tempered81]

bought my 965 from mwave.com for 68 bucks open box last summer.

 

[21stHermit]

Originally posted by: quadomatic
Can someone give me a tip for the cheapest motherboard I can get so that I can hit 3ghz with an E2180?

$69.99 + S&H.

Read the reviews, seems like a nice OCer.

 

[quadomatic]

I was looking about this. It seems decent, but I'm not positive about it. I'll look into it.

 

[Tempered81]

firewire optical and sli. 60 bucks Open box though.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16813130051R

 

[quadomatic]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
firewire optical and sli. 60 bucks Open box though.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16813130051R

Oh man, that looks fantastic. My current motherboard was purchased Open Box from Newegg too, and that had no problems either. It's a good enough deal that I may be willing to risk having to send it back if it doesn't work out.

 

[Tempered81]

hey this 1 is better...
it has a p35 w/ sli and heat pipes all over

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...ntel-_-MSI-_-13130098R

 

[quadomatic]

It's OOS

Not sure about the platinum anymore, can't find anything about oc'ing any E21xx with it

 

[quadomatic]

anymore recommendations?

 

[nonameo]

Hope you don't hate ECS

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813135047

Conclusion to a review, did 387FSB with an E6300
http://www.ocworkbench.com/200...s/NF650iSLIT-A/b10.htm

better results with this review:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/466/17/

 

[quadomatic]

Gah, looks good but rebate

 

[rogue1979]

Asrock Conroe1333 D667 $47 at mwave.com

Just need to paint a couple of dots on the cpu to set it to a native 266Mhz fsb.

It will hit 350Mhz, faster than the 2180 will go.

If you haven't bought the cpu yet, a 2160 will hit 3Ghz with room to spare.

 

[quadomatic]

Originally posted by: rogue1979
Asrock Conroe1333 D667 $47 at mwave.com

Just need to paint a couple of dots on the cpu to set it to a native 266Mhz fsb.

It will hit 350Mhz, faster than the 2180 will go.

If you haven't bought the cpu yet, a 2160 will hit 3Ghz with room to spare.

Thanks for the tip. This sounds like a hot deal.

By painting a couple dots, you mean BSEL mod of course. Do you have any guides to that please?

Thanks

UPDATE: Wow on this I can save. I can get an E2180 and this mobo for $139 shipped.

 

[secretanchitman]

you want the asrock 1333fsb mobo. i got mine from mwave for around $80 1 week ago. supports 45nm and has my favorite "amibios", so it'll overclock nicely. my pentium D is currently at 3.75Ghz, completely stable (250FSB).

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
hey this 1 is better...
it has a p35 w/ sli and heat pipes all over

Crossfire, not SLI.

As for the ASRock board, Newegg has it for $49. There are two versions, one is the Conroe1333-D667 and the other one (looking identical) is the Wolfdale1333-D667. I'm guessing the latter ships with a 45nm capable BIOS. Note that while it does have FSB adjustments, you will have to raise the PCI-E speed along with it as the 945 series chipset only has a pseudo lock on the speed. If you leave PCI-E at 100MHz then you won't get good clocks. Additionally, while you can do the BSEL mod for FSB, the board does not give you Vcore settings so you may need to do the Vcore mod as well. Search VR-Zone for details on both of those mods. The board does have two voltage adjustments, one for memory and one for chipset. Settings are limited to something like NORMAL/HIGH. For any overclocking you'd want to set both to HIGH.

Have fun, and let us know what you end up getting and how it overclocks. :thumbsup:

 

[rogue1979]

http://www.techspot.com/gallery/data/501/DSCF0044.JPG

1066Mhz fsb pin mod.

Voltage mods for 1.35v C2D and 1.2875v.

http://www.techspot.com/gallery/data/501/DSCF0044.JPG