Where to find good LGA 775 boards?

[Hi-Fi Man]

I recently acquired a Core 2 Duo E7200 from a buddy. But the system I want to upgrade has a Asus P5DW2 Premium which is i995X which means no Core 2 support.

So all I need is an ATX LGA 775 board that supports Core 2 and is around $50 but that's the hard part. Finding decent boards isn't easy so I would like to know if anybody knows where to get older boards like this?

I found some decent ones on ebay like this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-MS-7345...238080325?pt=Motherboards&hash=item4acb481b45

^Wondering if that's a decent buy^

Buying a whole new board and platform is out of the question. It'll cost more and this build is only for basic use.

EDIT: Meant to put this in motherboards. If somebody could move it that would be great!

 

[tweakboy]

You can even get a micro LGA 775 board.

 

[Arkaign]

Many many P35 boards experienced extreme vdroop after long term overclocking, which would make me not trust a used one. You don't need P35 though, you can get by with a newer chipset on a more basic mobo.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157359

G41, I've used them countless times. They're stable, and the great thing about that one is it has a pair of DDR2 slots and a pair of DDR3 slots. You can use your existing RAM, but in the future you might pick up a pair of 4GB DDR3 sticks for cheap, giving you an easy option to 8GB.

It won't have SLI/CF/Bluetooth/USB 3.0/etc, but you can add in the USB 3.0 via a PCIe card if you want, they actually work just as well as the onboard Renesis/NEC/etc non-Intel USB 3.0 controllers. Intel official native USB 3.0 is better still, but of course no P35 board (no S775 board at all in fact) will have native USB 3.0.

Forgot to note :

I've overclocked with that board and E5200, E7300, a few C2Ds, it actually works fairly well. Stable and capable. You just won't have as high a ceiling as you get with P45/X48/etc on boards with more robust OC design.

 

[webmaster1]

Hello,
Yes that's true that you need to buy a new set so i guess this is good option for you...😉