Mobo reccomendation for E6600, 8800gts

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Hello all, I'm putting together the final pieces of a longed planned system and was looking for some reccomendations on a solid motherboard.

I am looking at a fairly simplistic gaming machine with many features not being needed. I don't ever plan on using SLI, or using RAID. That being said, I'm planning on using one sata hard drive, one sata dvd burner, a core 2 duo e6600, and a geforce 8800gts, and 2gb of ddr2 6400 all wrapped up in an antec p180b case.

I would like to overclock a bit perhaps, taking the e6600 to 2.8 to 3ghz.

That being said, my budget is in the 100-200 dollar range, but I'd like to save some money if I can, given that I don't need the features of the higher end boards. Cooling and quietness are important to me, as well as stability. Any help would be much appreciated!
 
QuadGT is a great board without a doubt but sounds like overkill for his needs.
 
For rroughly the same price ASUS P5B Deluxe. not the DH.. DH is 975x
the regular is a 965 chipset..you want the 965
 
P5b vanilla with stock cooling..... the money saved here should be used on a quality power supply.....
 
not to threadjack, but I have a similar question.

I am planning on almost the same set up but I plan to SLI two 8800gts's. I can spend up to 250, but would rather not. I don't need all of the bells and whistles either, are there any good recommendations out there?
 
Space said:
not to threadjack, but I have a similar question.

I am planning on almost the same set up but I plan to SLI two 8800gts's. I can spend up to 250, but would rather not. I don't need all of the bells and whistles either, are there any good recommendations out there?
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$250 >> nforce 680i (i believe eVGA has a killer board)
$200 >> nforce 6800i LT (680 with lots of features scrapped)
$100-$150 >> nforce 650i (SLI in 8x/8x mode instead of 16x/16x)

i myself picked up a MSI P6N-SLI today (nf 650i), and it looks to be a solid board, not expensive either
 
I gave up on waiting for the DFI 965-s and right now running p5b dlx with e6600 + 8800gts 640 @ 3.52 GHz. The board is pretty nice but the layout for IDE cable and most importantly CMOS reset is HORRIBLE; other than that I like the board very much. Some have recommended to remove the "asus" badging shield on the northbridge heatsink, I will get around to this later most likely.

Will be running the Asus 680i premium shortly on my roommates computer but I think I made the right choice going 965.
 
Devolution said:
Hello all, I'm putting together the final pieces of a longed planned system and was looking for some reccomendations on a solid motherboard.

I am looking at a fairly simplistic gaming machine with many features not being needed. I don't ever plan on using SLI, or using RAID. That being said, I'm planning on using one sata hard drive, one sata dvd burner, a core 2 duo e6600, and a geforce 8800gts, and 2gb of ddr2 6400 all wrapped up in an antec p180b case.

I would like to overclock a bit perhaps, taking the e6600 to 2.8 to 3ghz.

That being said, my budget is in the 100-200 dollar range, but I'd like to save some money if I can, given that I don't need the features of the higher end boards. Cooling and quietness are important to me, as well as stability. Any help would be much appreciated!
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Seeing that you are building something a lot like my machine (sig) may I suggest looking for an Asus P5B dlx or if you can get within budget the Asus Commando. Mine is serving me very well :)
 
Given the great reviews of the DFI P965 and the relatively low price, that's what I'd go with...in fact, that is what I am going with. If you can't find one in stock, PM me.
 
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