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Building a INtel system

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Hey forum i think this my first time posting. The name is Lavaughn, from Freeport, Grand Bahama in the Bahamas. Good will to all.
But i need some help. I am building a system around the Pentium D 930, mostly bcuz of price and i need it for school, currently am looking for a good motherboard that helps overclock well. More bang for the buck i guess. This coming from a AMD fan.....i guess it all depends on the product neh.... anyways..... some help will be really appreciated.
 
The Asus P5WD2 Premium all the way. It rocks for overclocking and is very stable. There is a guy on this forum who is selling his for 155 shipped I think.
 
I'd recommend one step up with the P5PWD2-E Premium. You get the 975 chipset instead of 955, 8 SATA ports instead of 6, an extra PCI-E x16 slot, and a better integrated RAID chipset.
 
I've got it, nothing special over the non "-E" version.

The reason I bought it is b/c the 975 chipset was supposed to support Conroe. While techinically it does, my motherboard in the current revision (PCB) doesn't support it ! Supposedly the next revision 1.03g (I think) is going to support it.
 
Abit AW8 overclocks nicely (955XE chipset). it's only 80 bucks. If you want the Abit AW8-Max, it's got more features, but you could do without. I've heard people gettin pretty good overclocks on those. Or the AW8-D motherboard (975X chipset), overclocks real nice. Some guy got his 631 up to around 5ghz on that board. But the Abit AW8-D goes for about 175.Or if you don't like Intel chipsets, you could go ECS NF4 chipset board also for 80 dollars. Benchmarks say that it's just as good as an Asus P5WD2 with all the overclocking features you need... etc.... All of em are good and keepin the price low =)

and yea, to the guy above me. The 975X doesn't support it right now without the revision because of voltage regs are incompatible with conroe. If you spend on a P5WD2-E in the end, I'd just pick up an Intel BOX975XBX board for about 230 and hope you get a rev 304 (or you can mod it by hand www.xtremesystems.org has a guide to doin that). That board is shown to be a good overclocker and supports conroe. Or just wait and see what the 965 and the Ati 600RD chipsets show for our overclocks =D
 
ya P5WD2 go with that, any of the product line will work fine, wouldnt hurt to invest in a slightly better than the min. model. I have the one listed above that is linked to newegg;s site. Great bored, VERY easy to install with dual processors, great deal, im very satisfied with the mobo.
 
chrisf6969 said:
I've got it, nothing special over the non "-E" version.

The reason I bought it is b/c the 975 chipset was supposed to support Conroe. While techinically it does, my motherboard in the current revision (PCB) doesn't support it ! Supposedly the next revision 1.03g (I think) is going to support it.
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There are some people who have gotten it to work. It does involve a soldering iron though. But hey, if you were gonna have to throw out the board for a new one anyway, might as well try.
 
Everyone's got the right idea with going with the ASUS P5WD2 series boards, they are great overclockers and performers on the whole. BUT i dont suggest buying teh 930, why? becauase its too EXPENSIVE! Buy the Pentium D 805 @ 2.66ghz 2x1mb L2 cache. From first hand experience, using a low end board like the P5P800-VM, I have it Prime stable at 3.4, and im sure that if you buy some quality RAM and that P5WD2 series board, and a good cpu cooler, you can achieve more!! the CPU itself is like, $170 Canadian!!!!!



Good luck!
 
IceyN1pPles said:
Everyone's got the right idea with going with the ASUS P5WD2 series boards, they are great overclockers and performers on the whole. BUT i dont suggest buying teh 930, why? becauase its too EXPENSIVE! Buy the Pentium D 805 @ 2.66ghz 2x1mb L2 cache. From first hand experience, using a low end board like the P5P800-VM, I have it Prime stable at 3.4, and im sure that if you buy some quality RAM and that P5WD2 series board, and a good cpu cooler, you can achieve more!! the CPU itself is like, $170 Canadian!!!!!



Good luck!
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Big differences there. 9xx chips can run 4.5 on air if you get a good one, if not that, at at least 4.0. Plus, they perform better than 8xx chips due to new cache architecture.
 
Oh ya, there is a huge difference between the P5WD2 series and the low end P5P800-VM im using. So i can imagin that with a better set up, you will be able to overclock much better than what i did, guarenteed!!
 
IceyN1pPles said:
Oh ya, there is a huge difference between the P5WD2 series and the low end P5P800-VM im using. So i can imagin that with a better set up, you will be able to overclock much better than what i did, guarenteed!!
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You're telling me. I am stuck with a P4PE that OCs like shit.
 
Well, obviously you should wait until the release of conroe as there's just too much performance gain to be had, as well as the parts you'd be buying now will greatly depreciate.

But if you need something now, why not pick up one of the intel bad axe (rev 304 at least) boards so at least you'll have something that will support conroe FOR SURE without any modding or voiding the warrenty. So when comes time for a processor upgrade then you can just pop in without having to buy a new board. The boards arn't as crappy as other model intel boards it seems as i've seem them doing over 450fsb.
 
NulloModo said:
Big differences there. 9xx chips can run 4.5 on air if you get a good one, if not that, at at least 4.0. Plus, they perform better than 8xx chips due to new cache architecture.
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true, and the 9xx series processors have 4mb cache instead of the 805's 2mb, but it's a great deal for a 121 dollar processor. Tie that in with a 975XBX or a cheap AW8 or something and you've got a processor that can overclock to about 4.1 and beat an X-2 4800+ and a stock 965 processor. Of course, you're not going to get higher overclocks than those processors, but you paid a third or even less for a processor that equals the 999 dollar or so processor's performance. I say that's a good deal, do you? $121 > $999 ? It'd be smarter to hold off with a cheaper processor if you need to have one just so you have the rest of your money waiting for conroe.
 
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