What say you about this motherboard? For non-overclocking Quad Core system?

[MichaelD]

GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R

I've been asked to build a system for someone. Light gamer, does graphic design and coding. He specified a Quad Core processor, NO overclocking, WinXP.

I've been looking at this Gigabyte board and it looks pretty darn good for the price. It IS 45nm Yorkfield compatible with the BIOS released just a few days ago.

The only thing that concerns me is the lack of an 8-pin motherboard connector. Quad core CPUs like juice and I'm not sure if just the 4-pin will be enough.

Thoughts?

 

[DannyLove]

Never been a huge gigabyte fan. At least back in the days, they had some serious BIOS issues. Sorry, I'm not contributing to this discussion

 

[mjavid]

How about the Intel DP35DP. Very stable, cheap, with hardware RAID (ICH9R Southbridge), firewire, eSATA.

 

[MichaelD]

Hi guys. Thanks for the replies.

Danny: You are contributing. You don't like GB boards, and that's OK. I don't like MSI boards. We're even. LOL!

Mjavid: I will check that board out. I actually am looking at the GB board for this guy b/c my P965-DS3 has run w/o a hitch since day one, 19 months ago. Very happy w/it.

*edit*
The Intel board has more old style capacitors than new solid ones; that is a no-no in this day and age. I had two Epox boards die on me from leaky/exploding caps. No more old-style caps for me.

 

[MichaelD]

Anyone else?

 

[LR6]

I plan to go with the Intel board, I am not worried about the capacitors. I understand that the problem with the bad caps was a manufacturing error and not something inherently wrong with the design of electrolytic caps.

 

[jonmcc33]

Non-overclocking? Still would be better off with a Abit IP35-E which is far cheaper in price.