Advice on what Motherboard to get?

[Csst]

Well I'm getting my QX6850 in about a week now the question i have is what motherboard should i get? I have watercooling but the motherboard i have doesn't support the 1333 FSB i want to get a motherboard that going to be a good ocing MB and supports all my devices that i have now? ( listed in SIG).. What motherboard do you recommend i get

 

[Heidfirst]

there's every chance that the 965P-DS3 will be able to run a 1333 fsb CPU if you setup the BIOS manually - abits & Asus' 965s can.
Still a P35 based mobo will probably oc slightly better & slightly cooler - abit, Asus & Gigabyte P35s all seem to be good.

 

[Csst]

Anyone have any clue how this can be done? the rev. i have is 1.2 it says on there site you will need a REV. 3.3 in order to run a FSB of 1333? does anyone know how to run this manually. I have seen other post of people making there BIO run at 1333FSB.. just need some advice if this really can be done?

 

[Heidfirst]

if you read through http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=1908390&enterthread=y I'm sure that you'll find advice on overclocking & all that you're doing is overclocking the board's default 266fsb to 333 (quad pumped bus so 4x333=1333).

 

[mojaveron]

Here is a link to a interesting review by driver heaven of the top four P-35 boards.


http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/p35moboroundup/

 

[Csst]

i will look a little more into this one thanks.. Anyone have any more info feel free to touch of this subject thanks again guys

 

[JustaGeek]

If you want the motherboard to provide you with the excitement of the Action, affection of Romance, and agony of Horror movies, go with P5N-E SLI.

Seriously, when you get all the settings worked out manually, it is an awesome performer.

Today, I would probably go with P5N32-E SLI Plus, with better cooling, solid-state capacitors etc.

Good luck!

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: mojaveron
Here is a link to a interesting review by driver heaven of the top four P-35 boards.


http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/p35moboroundup/

That website gets the award for most annoying background ever. I tried to muddle thru the review to get to the good-stuff, but ultimately gave up as the pain on my eyes attempting to figure out what to focus on was just not worth wading thru 20 pages to get to the performance results.

They should take a look at AT's website, so much easier to navigate thru the reviews.

 

[Csst]

Thanks for all the input i'm going to review it all.