What a good cheap LGA 775 mobo for use w/ Pentium 805 Dual Core

[Techie333]

Hi, I am building a new system. Need recommendations for good cheap motherboard for use with Pentium 4 805 Dual-core processor. Needs to have PCI Express, and I will be OCing but stock fsb is at 133mhz so it won't go above or near 200mhz. Thanks!

 

[eplebnista]

Foxconn 915P7AC-8KS 915P

 

[Bakwetu]

Long-term oc'ing with a cheap mobo will be difficult. I have just gone through two Asus p5p800se mobos that burned; the first one after two weeks the other one after just a few days. They simply cannot supply the cpu with enough juice and quickly disintegrates if you put the cpu uner prolonged stress (as you should be able to do). I had watercooling in mine so perhaps that's why they broke down so quickly as the rest of the mobo did not get enough cooling, I did analyses on mine that taxed both cores 100% and have no airconditioning which explains things, but they wouldn't have lasted no matter what IMO.

They didn't oc well either the up to 3.4 ghz at first, but after a few hours neither of them oc:ed at all.

 

[Just4Ever]

I wouldn't even bother getting a decent mobo if you are going to get a 805D. I'm still pretty new to the whole oc scene but from what I'm hearing you are not going to want to buy an 805D cpu because Conroe is coming out soon.

You best bet is to wait for Conroe and then either get an AMD X2 4800+ or get a Conroe. The 805D is roughly %40 percent slower than a Conroe cpu at the same speed.

 

[Techie333]

eplebnista, their website says the 805 is not approved yet I think. thanks but are there any other ones that have DDR2?

Bakwetu, I suppose that is true, can you recommend any that won't break down then, regardless of cheap price or not?

Just4Ever, problem is that I need to build it ASAP. Right now I figured I could get most value out of buying Pentium D 805 and OCing on air to approx 3.6ish which is what some ppl are easily achieving.

 

[avi85]

I will never understand why people insist on putting space heaters in their computers

 

[Bakwetu]

Look at the power supplying parts of the mobos you interested in. Here in Sweden they are selling out high quality mobos of the last generation at quite a good price f.x Abit A8w. These will possibly not be conroe campatible though. I was considering that mobo, but opted for an Asus p5w dh deluxe, which was twice as expensive, but guaranteed to be conroe ready. I am oc:ing it at 3.8 ghz and running it at full load on both cores- it gets really hot here!!

Instead of putting a lot of money now into an expensive mobo and cooling, I would rather wait and get a cheaper conroe ready mobo, that doesnt have be built to take the massive amounts of power that an oc'ed 805d needs.

 

[busmaster11]

Originally posted by: Techie333
Hi, I am building a new system. Need recommendations for good cheap motherboard for use with Pentium 4 805 Dual-core processor. Needs to have PCI Express, and I will be OCing but stock fsb is at 133mhz so it won't go above or near 200mhz. Thanks!

The way I see it, if you're going cheap, the 805 still can't be beat. A good stable Conroe setup cpu/955 or 965 setup will still start at around 350$.

The 805 running at a 3.4GHZ sweetspot will NOT require massive amounts of juice nor generate massive amounts of heat, though going over this threashhold may, if THG's dissipation charts are to be believed. It will be quite comparable to everything else in its performance level, just much cheaper at ~200$, when paired with what I consider to be the best chipset for it, the 945P. Trust me - no newer chipset (946-975) offers significant performance boosts with the P D's... SIS and VIA offer vastly inferior legacy chipsets with only things like AGP and DDR and SATA1 support, etc, and nforce4 has the annoying problem with data corruption with SATA...

I highly recommend one of these for around 100$:


http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductCo...1288%2CN82E16813121293&SubCategory=280