What motherboard is good for e8400 cpu?

[bball1523]

What motherboard is good for e8400 cpu? I want one that is reliable and has firewire on it too. I was thinking about a Gigabyte board, but they are expensive! Any recommendations?

 

[chuckm]

Asus P5K-E.
With or without wifi.

 

[yzedsled]

Just stay away from 680i boards.

 

[lou61166]

I Love my P5e board a little bit of a pain setting it up with the 8400,you must flash the bios with the latest version,i had to install my old cpu first to do this,once i was able to do that all is great,running it at 3.6 MHZ, 1611 FSB,with just the cooler that came with the cpu.

 

[bball1523]

Is there a board that doesn't require flashing the Bios? I don't have an old Intel cpu to work with to flash the bios. I really want a board where I can just plug and play.

 

[chuckm]

Needing a bios flash is dependent on what bios the board ships with. I would contact the place or site you're buying the board from and see if they know which bios the board of choice has.

 

[ZeSpacecrab]

What about an Abit IP35-E?

 

[Arcanedeath]

Originally posted by: ZeSpacecrab
What about an Abit IP35-E?

No firewire and it requires a bios flash

 

[DarkRogue]

I haven't bought it yet (plan to when E8400 comes in stock) but from what I can tell via my research is the Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P supposedly supports the CPU out-of-the-box. It's supposedly a Rev 2.1 of the P35-DS3P. It has 2 Firewire ports and headers for one more iirc. $155 on Newegg atm, don't know if that's outside your budget, but you could try looking into that.

 

[bball1523]

this is the one I've been thinking about buying.

Now I just need to know what ram to get.

Is this 2 gb crucial any good? And will it work with the gigabyte?

http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16820146565

 

[Fern]

Bump for more recommendations of mobo's with this cpu.

It's been several months now, I hope there are more choices that don't require flashing.

BTW: I don't anticipate OCing as this new rig will be used in my work/office. So, I do NOT need firewire. But I DO need onboard graphics.

Edit: If easier, someone can just tell which chipsets are good, and which ones suck, I can take it from there.

T.I.A.

Fern

 

[DarkRogue]

Fairly old thread, but I have bought and assembled a rig with my suggestion a few posts above, and it works wonders.

GA-EP35-DS3P, has onboard Firewire, USB galore, and supports my E8400 out of the box.

A good chipset right now is the P35 and is generally recommended around here, so you can't go wrong with that. Onboard graphics, I have no idea about though. I know Gigabyte has a few of those (Look for ones with a G in the model number.. like the S3G I think.) but no idea how good it is.