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Need help choosing the mobo.

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I cannot decide between a few mobo's for my E8400, which I already have bought.
Candidates:
Abit IP35 Vanilla
DFI Blood Irion T2RL
MSI NEO2 FIR
DFI LanParty DK T2 (the worst rev)

Here in Poland they all have similar prices, and that is why I cannot make my decision...
Rest of my specs:
E8400, Crucial Ballistix 6400 2gb, radeon hd3870, wd 500gb aaks, corsair 520w.
Please help me to choose, asap.
 
What are your goals? Are you planning to overclock or run stock? Are you going to build a gaming system, general purpose, multimedia? Are you an experienced system builder? I take it from your post that you have a price amount in mind...
 
My goal is orthos stable 4ghz (if cpu will allow me some nice overclock when I mount LC), general use you ask? Yep, Internet, unprofessional Photoshop use, movies rather than newest games.

Answering your question about me being a experienced rig builder? I really do not know, it's gonna be my first Intel based PC, but I spent like 3 months reading and seeking answers on many forums. Still I find it hard to decide on the mobo, as there are so many of them, and they do not differ much.

Amount of money? The least the better, and I'm already over budget I was aiming for ;) It has to be under $200.

I was so to take the Abit IP35 mobo, that I almost ordered it, and now the DFI's came out and I ain't sure if Abit is still a good choice. My friend bought the X38 DFI one, and he really is more than satisfied :]

From an mobo, I expect stability, good over clocking abilities, RAID, oh I do not need more than one PCI-E ports.

It is really a though decision. I hope you will help me out.
 
if you can afford the Abit IP35-Pro, then get that board, it's only about $179.
 
Its $220 here, where I live....

I think I'll be getting DFI LanParty DK T2RS eventually.
 
Just a quick observation, hard to go wrong, all good quality enthusiast boards using the same base chipset will perform so close that you will never feel the difference. Look more at the features than any OCing review. Find large pictures of each board and compare side by side, look a the components around the CPU socket in particular. You do not have to be an engineer to recognize good stuff when you see it. Compare the cooling of the components around the CPU socket.

My overall take on it is,

DFI is for expert tweakers, the bios is awesome but unless you know exactly what you are doing there a a ton of options that can get you in trouble or will never use. Ultimate board if you like to play in the bios and get every last 5MHz our of your setup and run on the edge. Get your buddy to run through the bios settings and see how many you don't have a clue what to do with. Perhaps I am wrong but hell, some of them I don't know exactly what they do and I been around longer than I like to think about.

ABIT has everything you need in the bios to OC very well but you might not get that last 5MHz (and save the 2 weeks of screwing around trying to find it) The Abit has the best fan/temp control options there is so if setting the machine up to be quiet(er) is a factor, that is a plus. If you want to get it up and running stable without spending 2 days reading about bios options that may or may not help you, the Abit is the way to go.

Both boards OC well and will end up close to where you want to go if you get lucky.

Regardless of which board, investigate doing improvements to the boards thermal system after an initial test run out of the case and before doing the permanent in case install.

So if you like to constantly tweak and mess with the computer go with the DFI, If you want to get it up and running fast go ABIT, both boards will do the job.

The MSI got a nice write up at anandtech just recently but I do not personally know enough about it to comment.
 
The difference between Abit IP35 vanilla and DFI is around $40, would you pay more for the DFI then?
 
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