AgentOmega
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Yeah I am eagerly wanting to find out what the most bang for the buck 8400 mobo is after being steared away from the 780i boards
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Look at the specs AND the box / packaging.
Like the Asus P5K-E says it on the box.. "45nm support"
and I know for sure it has out of box support as I popped an e8400
in to one last night & it booted right up.
One tip, select "Set to defaults/optimized settings" or whatever then start tweaking. I was having issues until I did that. Once I did that everything was fine, and I left the machine Priming (Orthos) at 3.9Ghz this morning.
With the P5K-E, I think it's the luck of the draw. Some receive boards with a newer bios. Others like yourself receive boards with an older bios.I got a P5K-E from mwave and it doesn't support the E8400 out of box even though it said "45nm support" on the box. Gotto RMA the board now since I don't know anyone with a socket 775 processor.
Update:
Well, apparently I've blundered and my PSU really is the culprit. I figured a relatively new PSU with EPS2 and SLI support should handle all the parts, since I don't SLI. I have 550 Watt OCZ Powerstream, and after installing the LANPARTY DK P35-T2RS (with solid caps) I've got a reset bug, just like on the GA P35 DS3R, but worse. This is a power hungry board.
However, the DFI board is resetting, like the PSU can't handle the power draw. The Gigabyte will cold reboot everytime I change any OC settings in the bios. The Gigabyte will boot into windows with all of my parts installed and video card and at least play games. It'll also OC the E8400 to 4.05GHz within windows using my weak PSU. The DFI will not even boot into windows at stock on my current setup with all HDDs unplugged.
BTW. The Gigabyte Marketing hype about efficiency is true! I almost regret RMA'ing the Gigabyte board, because it has 2 extra USB ports on the back and 2 more SATA ports. Sorry Gigabyte! Anyone experiencing a cold reboot with this board after Bios, should investigate their PSU.
As for the DFI. I have only one 8800GT and this sucker needs one of those 8pin cpu power plugs (optional in manual) and my 550 watt can't take it. Probably going to get an 850 watt to eliminate it as a problem. Sorry no review for the new DFI yet but there's another forum member who got one and hopefully his results will be fruitful.
Testing with a Kill-A-Watt, my Gigabyte DS3L with E8400 @ 3.6GHz and 8800GT does not exceed 250W at load, so wattage shouldn't be an issue.Update:
Well, apparently I've blundered and my PSU really is the culprit. I figured a relatively new PSU with EPS2 and SLI support should handle all the parts, since I don't SLI. I have 550 Watt OCZ Powerstream, and after installing the LANPARTY DK P35-T2RS (with solid caps) I've got a reset bug, just like on the GA P35 DS3R, but worse. This is a power hungry board.
Testing with a Kill-A-Watt, my Gigabyte DS3L with E8400 @ 3.6GHz and 8800GT does not exceed 250W at load, so wattage shouldn't be an issue.
From what I've been able to tell, the cold reboot problem on the Gigabyte boards is related to (1) poor quality power supplies and (2) memory that needs more 2.0V.
With a good power supply and 1.8V memory (like G-Skill DDR2-800 or DDR2-1000), you should not experience cold boot issues on Gigabyte mainboards.
There is no way you need a 850W PSU for an 8800GT an E8400 and a P35 board, there is something else wrong with your system.
Not to mention the OCZ PSU's have horrible ripple which is most likely the culprit, not that the wattage can't handle it.
So far we have out of the box support for E8400s on:
Asus P5K-E
Asus P5E (Don't know if I have the right model # Asus X38 mobo, like the formula)
Asus P5E-VM HDMI
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R 2.1 and 2.0
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4
Asrock 4Core1600P35-WiFi+
EVGA 780i SLI
Confirmed by Hardforum members.
DFI LANPARTY DK P35-T2RS (Still pending my successful install, will boot and post, still not stability tested yet.)
and the dfi lp ut p35 t2r, dammit. with 12/24 bios, and older ones with 11/07 bios also. since this is the same mb as the lp lt p35 t2r, but with heatpipes, you can add the lp lt p35 t2r also.
i have run th e8400 with 2 new lp ut's. one with the 12/24 bios, one with the 11/07 bios. there are no rev designations that i can find on the boards, so boards with the 11/07 bios are just older stock.
Ok after three weeks of owning the E8400 I have went through 1) motherboard already BloodIron (which i returned). I was thinking about getting the DFI Dark board but I decided not to. However, I am getting a Gigabyte GA-p35-ds3L tomorrow.
Here is my set up:
cpu: E8400 3.0ghz planning to hit at least 4.0ghz
mobo: Gigabyte GA-p35-DS3L
ram: Crucial Ballistics DDR2-1066 2x1gb. Stock timing 5-5-5-15 I will lower the latency to 4-4-4-12 and drop the speed to DDR2-890 @ 2.2volts
Heatsink: I have several heat sinks I'm going to test, I'll post which one has the lowest score
power supply: thermaltake 500watt
We now have out of the box support for E8400s on:
Asus P5K-E
Asus P5E (Don't know if I have the right model # Asus X38 mobo, like the formula)
Asus P5E-VM HDMI
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R 2.1 and 2.0
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4
Gigabyte GA-G31MX-S2
Asrock 4Core1600P35-WiFi+
EVGA 780i SLI
DFI LP LT P35 T2R
DFI LP UT P35 T2R
MSI P35 Neo2-FR
Confirmed by Hardforum members.
DFI LANPARTY DK P35-T2RS (Still pending.)
What kind of problems were you having with the Blood Iron Board? The Gigabyte boards have fewer settings (which is not a bad thing!) in the bios than the DFIs. But I'm curious as to why you didn't like the Blood Iron. Did the Blood Iron run the E8400 out of the box or did you upgrade a bios to get it to work?
If you read the other forums, a number of people are seeing crashes and reboots with the Blood Iron.What kind of problems were you having with the Blood Iron Board? The Gigabyte boards have fewer settings (which is not a bad thing!) in the bios than the DFIs. But I'm curious as to why you didn't like the Blood Iron. Did the Blood Iron run the E8400 out of the box or did you upgrade a bios to get it to work?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't ALL P35 boards support the E8400 (or any 45nm processors, for that matter)?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't ALL P35 boards support the E8400 (or any 45nm processors, for that matter)?