what motherboard for an e8400?

[rothchilds]

I have a gigabyte 965-s3 currently, and I have heard hit and miss from the beta bios for 45nm chips. I just pulled out an e4300 and popped in a quad core, but it really doesnt impress me, so I figured I'd try the 8400. Which mobo do people like? I will oc it.

 

[bryanW1995]

one of the higher end dfi mobos is 97 shipped open box at newegg right now. I almost jumped on that one earlier.

 

[rothchilds]

thanks, I'll go check it out. Have been looking at the GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L (sorry for the caps, copy and paste). Won't use sli or raid.

 

[Acanthus]

the bloodiron P35 from DFI is fantastic for OCing duals.

 

[soccerballtux]

so is the ip35-e

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
so is the ip35-e

I have heard if you cant flash with a 65nm cpu, they are incompatible with 45nm out of the box.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
so is the ip35-e

I have heard if you cant flash with a 65nm cpu, they are incompatible with 45nm out of the box.

That should no longer be the case. I got a IP-35E and E8400 back in January and it worked fine out of the box with no BIOS update needed. I didn't have a 65nm chip to flash it with anyway. Mine shipped with BIOS 13 and the newer 35E's probably have a newer BIOS.

 

[Bish]

I have built two systems based upon Gigabyte MB's. The first was a GA-EP35C-DS3R and the second was a GA-EP35-DS3R. The difference is the C version supports both DDR2 and DDR3. Both have been rock solid at mild overclock with stock cooling (400X8).

 

[toschek]

asus p5e-vm hdmi is a nice overclocking board, my OC is weak but I'm too much of a pussy to take it up a notch.

 

[Tempered81]

i ran 4600mhz benches, 4200mhz stable 24/7, 4730mhz validated, 4500mhz prime, 4400mhz in crysis on my ip35-e with an e8400

edit: pretty much anything above 4.2 failed. Stability can be found anywhere from 4.0-4.4 depending on your cooling and (I've seen 4.5 9+hours of prime now as well). It's possible to run super high like 4.6g-6.0g for suicide benches, but you'll need insane fsbs, water/dice/ln2/phase cooling etc, dangerous vcore, and an excellent mobo/ram for that. an ip35-e will do about 520mhz if you're lucky, and not with a quad, only a dual. (maybe quads if you're an expert)

also: my ip35e didn't work out of the box on 45nm until i flashed the bios using an e2140