Help choosing a budget P35 MoBo.

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200mg

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This wil be for a q6600. Anyone have either of these? I am aware of the funky dual boot on the Abit. Still Leaning towards the Abit, I hear it's a better OCer for down the road, I have read the the NBridge on the Gigabyte gets extremely hot even if not overclocked. Just wondering if anyone can confirm this or has had a good experience with either board.

this Gigabytye
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128059

or

this Abit
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813127031
 
The northbridge on my intel P35 runs extremely hot(75c+), i need to look into doing something about it.
 
Im not sure about the two boards you mentioned, really im in the same boat you are in, but I have actually ordered my motherboard and am awaiting for it to be shipped.

I got the MSI P35 NEO2-FR http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130098

Its 120.00 with 15 MIR, but I got it from mwave for 115.00.

I will let you know how I like it once I get it if your still looking by this weekend, and if your interested in it. I got it because it looks like it has a little more aggresive chipset cooling, and also I got sick of the serial/parrallel ports that I have not used in 10 to 15 years.
 
200mg said:
This wil be for a q6600. Anyone have either of these? I am aware of the funky dual boot on the Abit. Still Leaning towards the Abit, I hear it's a better OCer for down the road, I have read the the NBridge on the Gigabyte gets extremely hot even if not overclocked. Just wondering if anyone can confirm this or has had a good experience with either board.

this Gigabytye
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128059

or

this Abit
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813127031
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This one: Abit IP35-E, cracking board.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813127031


All budget P35 chip mobo's seemingly suffer from double boot syndrome, this adds an extra 3-4secs to boot time, to me it's no biggie and certainly not a deal breaker.

Abit have a beta BIOS out that should address this.

http://www.lvcoyote.com/M630A_13.B01.zip
 
thanks for the replies everyone.

Zombie, do you know if the ip35-e has the same bios as the ip35 and ip35 pro...I can only find solid reviews on the pro and they all say there is a good amount of control/options in the bios, I am wondering if they share the same bios??
 
200mg said:
thanks for the replies everyone.

Zombie, do you know if the ip35-e has the same bios as the ip35 and ip35 pro...I can only find solid reviews on the pro and they all say there is a good amount of control/options in the bios, I am wondering if they share the same bios??
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The IP-35E and IP35 share BIOS's. The IP35-Pro has its own.
 
thanks zombie. after reading those posts I'm going to ask another question. uGuru?? You can change bios settings from within windows? Is that right?
 
Goodness....Where have I been?

That feature alone imho warrants the money. This is no longer a search for a budget mobo, but is now a search for the cheapest ip35 pro I can find.

Thanks for the replies
 
You can do a lot in uGuru & it is a feature that I miss when I run a board without it (mainly for the hardware monitoring/fan control tbh).
You can't change CPU multi or RAM dividers/timings in the uGuru Windows GUI, you still have to do that in the BIOS.
 
I like the DFI P35 T2RL. Good, stable overclocker and cheap.
 
BUFF said:
You can do a lot in uGuru & it is a feature that I miss when I run a board without it (mainly for the hardware monitoring/fan control tbh).
You can't change CPU multi or RAM dividers/timings in the uGuru Windows GUI, you still have to do that in the BIOS.
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BUFF you can do the FSB though?
 
Yes, along with lots of voltages & cooling/fan adjustments .
What's more you have 6 presets (3 factory settings & 3 user definable) plus default that you can change to at a mouse click & then there is Autodrive where you can associate an app. with a particular profile e.g. you've been browsing using your underclocked, low voltage, low noise profile & decide that you want to do some gaming. You shut your browser & click on your game's (that you have previously associated with your overclocked, higher voltage, higher fan rpm profile) exe & uGuru automatically changes your system settings for you.
Pretty sweet when it works (I usually use the user define settings as I find using those better than the factory presets).
 
For a budget board, you can't go wrong with either of your original two options. The IP35-E is cheaper through mwave, but it lacks legacy support. So, if you need those legacy ports, the DS3L is the best option.

uGuru is cool, but not worth its price, imo. Since its worth it to you, then check out Mwave... they probably have the best price on the IP35 Pro... too bad it no longer has a rebate.
 
enginurd said:
uGuru is cool, but not worth its price, imo.
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You aren't just paying for uGuru though - the difference buys you an extra physical x16 PCI-E slot (x4 electrical), 2x eSATA, dual Gb LAN, external clearCMOS switch, 100% solid caps etc.. It's quite a different board (in the same way that a DQ6 is quite a different board from a DS3).
 
BUFF said:
You aren't just paying for uGuru though - the difference buys you an extra physical x16 PCI-E slot (x4 electrical), 2x eSATA, dual Gb LAN, external clearCMOS switch, 100% solid caps etc.. It's quite a different board (in the same way that a DQ6 is quite a different board from a DS3).
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I agree, and that is why I just bought the IP35 Pro over the other versions... even though I am cheap :D I figure the Pro was worth another 30-40 bucks over the regular IP35.
 
I got the IP35-E in the Fry's deal with the e6750. It is a good overclocker and I have my cpu at 3.6ghz. The only thing I miss is the raid and I can't seem to get any sound after installing the drivers. It is a solid board though so far.
 
Bop said:
I like the DFI P35 T2RL. Good, stable overclocker and cheap.
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Sweet, I think I'm going to get that board because it looks like its a really good board without all that unnecessary crap. I am too getting a q6600, and I'm just wondering whats limiting your clock at 3.2ghz?
 
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