Good conroe mobo

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Looking for a good conroe motherboard. Going to get the E6300. A 7900GT and 1-2gb of DDR2 ram. Nothing amazing but worth buying. I currently have Asus which has proven me well so I know they are good :) SLI would be an upside. Maybe 1gb ethanet also :| Standard ATX board.
 
Hawk said:
Looking for a good conroe motherboard. Going to get the E6300. A 7900GT and 1-2gb of DDR2 ram. Nothing amazing but worth buying. I currently have Asus which has proven me well so I know they are good :) SLI would be an upside. Maybe 1gb ethanet also :| Standard ATX board.
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Same question as above *bump*

Money no object. What is best mobo for conroe? anyone have a link to some comprehensive benches?
 
Hawk said:
$125 max really.
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$125 max isn't going to get you much for now. That Gigabyte board is probably the cheapest board I'd get at this point. Asus boards are way overpriced right now. Might have to wait a month or two for them to come down to reasonable levels. The ASRock boards are obviously budget boards, but should work (although there are no voltage options for the CPU).
 
yevaud said:
Now that's very interesting. I wonder how Conroe does with straight D DR memory, particularly the really low latency stuff. HMMMMMM
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Probably does okay. Don't forget you can use either an AGP or PCI-E card too. It looks like a decent option for those who want to upgrade in pieces.
 
^^^ August/September

Nvidia version should be out a little earlier than the ATI version.
 
Thought I replied, how odd. Anyway, he needs time to save up and will be a month or two so that should be fine. Will the DFI mobos be under 125?

Thanks for the replys :) The suggestions are really good :)
 
Hawk said:
Thought I replied, how odd. Anyway, he needs time to save up and will be a month or two so that should be fine. Will the DFI mobos be under 125?

Thanks for the replys :) The suggestions are really good :)
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No...I can't imagine they will be even with normal pricing unless they come out with an Infinity version of the 965P chipset.
 
GoldenTiger said:
AWESOME article, makes me feel good about my choice of Asus P5W-DH Deluxe yesterday :D! That is one heck of a guide!
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Yup, sure is, will save people lot's of time. :D
 
Yup, it's what I was waiting on. In reality, I don't think any of the boards ended up looking "bad" as they all seem to do what they're supposed to.
The only knock on the Asus (other than price) is that there's still never any mention of 7950 support. I was really interested in that card considering it's not much more than a 7900gtx or x1900xtx. So far only the Bad Axe and Gigabyte boards can definitely use it. I'm hesitant to buy it until I'm sure they'll end up supporting that card in the near future.
 
He's getting a 7900GT and won't upgrade for a long while yet :)

Thanks alot for the link! :D
 
There's some info floating around on the net (neoseeker & elsewhere) about nForce 5xx boards that mentions that Asus is supposed to make a 570 SLI board in the $110 price range. Should be out by the first half of August. That's what I want and I haven't even seen it yet!
(I've got a 7900GT and so I'm planning to stick with an SLI solution for a while down the road when I can get another for $50 or something, so nVidia only for me!)
 
My brother wants Nvidia only lol. Their cards have never failed either of us so it's not a stupid choice :)

Hope that board is true :eek: Find any news on it, please tell me :D

EDIT: Where did you hear about it?
 
Domingo said:
Yup, it's what I was waiting on. In reality, I don't think any of the boards ended up looking "bad" as they all seem to do what they're supposed to.
The only knock on the Asus (other than price) is that there's still never any mention of 7950 support. I was really interested in that card considering it's not much more than a 7900gtx or x1900xtx. So far only the Bad Axe and Gigabyte boards can definitely use it. I'm hesitant to buy it until I'm sure they'll end up supporting that card in the near future.
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Yes I am thinking of same thing, if the Board supports the 7950gx2 it would be fantastic
 
Abit was my choice of MB's for a number of years, back in the old P2 and P3 days. I was glad to hear they are moving back to focus on enthusiasts again. I am disappointed though they always seem to be behind other manufacturers on getting a board out early. Conroe boards should have been done and ready a month ago, no reason to be waiting still. I've never liked Asus that much, especially with their prices. But I may just have to bite the bullet this time.
 
Hawk said:
But don't cards work on boards that don't support them?
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Yeah, the 7950 likely works on mobos that don't officially support it, BUT...with a lot of 'em it doesn't. The ASUS is one of those that doesn't support it "accidentally." As of today if you plug it into one of those, I think it still shows up as a single 7900 GT. That's not the end of the world, but at the same time, what if they never bother to have a BIOS update that makes it show up properly? The odds are slim, but it's possible.
We know that for sure the Bad Axe and Gigabyte boards already work with it...so I'm leaning toward them.
I wouldn't mind using a 7900GT for the moment and getting a DX10 card later, or even jumping in and getting an x1900xt but in terms of money, the 7950 beats those cards pretty easily and the price of it in comparison is a steal.
 
I think the Asus P5W DH Deluxe is a good board, if you want to run Crossfire.

I'd go with the Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe for an SLI setup
 
I guess my issue is that I don't want to run SLI or Crossfire. I like the 7950 card because it's SLI all in one card, but with even BETTER performance. If there were a single card (that didn't even have to use any kind of SLI trickery) that were $100 more than the 7950 I get that just because at least I'd know it'll work with EVERYTHING without having to do any tweaking.
 
The abit board didnt make the roundup because Anand & crew didnt get the retail bios revision so they werent satisfied with it because they couldnt change memory timings. He says there will be another motherboard roundup soon (they are getting about 20 conroe motherboards within the next 4 weeks)

I would suggest looking for the gigabyte DS3. (its sold out on newegg but look around, you'll find its still in stock some places) One guy on xtremesystems.org brought his up to 512fsb with the latest bios revision. Others are claiming similar results (most getting around 485)
 
Is the ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe a good buy i really want to be able to build a gaming rig as soon as conroe drops and i want a sli motherboard does that asus overclock well. This is gonna be my first build ever and i want a sli motherboard is there gonna be a real difference with the 590sli and how much u think cost of those mobo's will be?
 
"Holdover for Conroe" board in every sense of the definition http://pcclub.com/product_details.cfm?itemno=A4803016 .
This one is similarly priced but has a few deal making perks such as raid(okay just one) http://pcclub.com/product_details.cfm?itemno=A4830978 .

I would go for the gigabyte because I don't think Asus should command the huge premium for its motherboards.Why should you pay $200 for a motherboard that should really cost $150? IMO, Asus is becoming the Bose of motherboards because it makes good products but charges a massive premium for quality that is marginally better than its competitors.
 
Thanks alot. That motherboard is below the price range by 25NZD, 15USD. But is 8x SLI compared to 16x SLI have a big difference?

Do you mean boss of mobo's? Not bose? lol

EDIT: What is the Gigabytes SLI run at?
 
I'm pretty sure that Asus P5N32-SLI board isn't the Conroe ready one. You need the SE version that has the SLI 590 chipset IIRC.
 
Hawk said:
Do you mean boss of mobo's? Not bose? lol
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no he meant bose refering to the speakers that are good qaulity but they overcharge way above competiters price for there goods
 
civictyper16 said:
Is the ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe a good buy i really want to be able to build a gaming rig as soon as conroe drops and i want a sli motherboard does that asus overclock well. This is gonna be my first build ever and i want a sli motherboard is there gonna be a real difference with the 590sli and how much u think cost of those mobo's will be?
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Those motherboards don't support conroe, I thought you were looking for an sli board for now and would upgrade to conroe when sli capable boards are released for conroe. Honestly, those boards are great for the price and will give you sli (which is not great for the price). Although it will only support pentium d processors, there will be some amazing netburst processors dropping in price such as this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116240 . These processors are guaranteed to oc to 4ghz, no matter how crappy your ram or mobo are. Last week, that was the price of the 3ghz variant. I'm not sure if the price will drop more or if intel is trying to phase out the product, but it was the top processor of its line (960 EE? came out after it). If you're planning to opt for conroe just for the e6300 or e6400, I highly recommend you consider one of the mobos and that cpu above.
Just to put thinks into perspective, the pentium d 805 oc'd to 4ghz was said to match a stock fx-60. This particular pentium d is guaranteed to at least get 4ghz and will probably oc beyond that on one of the 2 boards I recommended.
 
I thought those boards did say Core2 duo supported opps :p. Does anybody know when sli mobo's come out for conroe cause i keep hearing september??? :mad:
 
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