Are there any real good motherboards out there?

[ingeborgdot]

I have been looking at newegg for motherboards as I am thinking about building another computer. Are there any good ones out there? According to the ratings there are too many bad eggs;)I am not a gamer but I need a good motherboard because I work it hard with video editing. I like a well built board but there seems to be so many negatives toward them unless you want to pay 300 for one. Anyone care to comment on this.

[Movieman]

I have been looking at newegg for motherboards as I am thinking about building another computer. Are there any good ones out there? According to the ratings there are too many bad eggs;)I am not a gamer but I need a good motherboard because I work it hard with video editing. I like a well built board but there seems to be so many negatives toward them unless you want to pay 300 for one. Anyone care to comment on this.

First decide your total budget and looking at your sig, are any of those parts available for use in the new build?
Then decide if you want Intel or AMD..
Then we can offer suggestions..:up:

[Stacker_830]

check out this motherboard

http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/showthread.php?t=218369

[Power_VANO]

if you got enough money, go for Core i7 setup, otherwise, if you'd like Core 2 series, here are decent mobos @ ~200$ range:

ASUS P5E Deluxe: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131317

and his X38 brother, at cheaper price: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131219

both ones can be flashed with Rampage Formula BIOS, both ones are very good mobos for Core 2 series CPUs.

[mikeyakame]

if you got enough money, go for Core i7 setup, otherwise, if you'd like Core 2 series, here are decent mobos @ ~200$ range:

ASUS P5E Deluxe: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131317

and his X38 brother, at cheaper price: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131219

both ones can be flashed with Rampage Formula BIOS, both ones are very good mobos for Core 2 series CPUs.

If you want something solid and reliable for video editing. For Core2 buy an Intel DX48BT2 X48 DDR3 board. Intel boards are about as solid as you can get. They last forever.

THey don't have all the flash bang of third party vendors, but they are engineered for reliability and stability.

[OverDozeD]

@ingeborgdot

As I see, the point Isn't OC-ing
so you need workstation mobo with quad-core support

Agree with mikeyakame :)
Intel has very solid boards and stable, but not for oc-ing so far

Can't recommend you which mobo to choose though

[Ozzfest05]

yeah we need more info before recommending anything

[zanzabar]

@ingeborgdot

As I see, the point Isn't OC-ing
so you need workstation mobo with quad-core support

Agree with mikeyakame :)
Intel has very solid boards and stable, but not for oc-ing so far

Can't recommend you which mobo to choose though

intels boards arnt supper stable anymore they are cheap POS with intels name on it, its just a cheap foxconn that u pay extra for.


if u want a stable 775 get a p45 unless u need ecc, i would suggest teh dfi dk p45 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136053 even if u arnt ocing u get straight forwand settings and stable power. for x38/48 i would go the same and with the dfi or a foxconn, stay away from asus they are priced to high and stay away from msi they tend to degrade and have messed up clock gens

[Nickel020]

Well they're still designed by Intel though. And Foxconn can make nice boards, just look at their high-end boards.

[zanzabar]

Well they're still designed by Intel though. And Foxconn can make nice boards, just look at their high-end boards.

i said that foxconn makes good ones, i have a black ops. but the intel ones are weak and have some of the low end componants but cost the same as a mid-high end. especially the x48 and x38 are weak

i would only go foxcon or dfi, even with no overclocking (maybe biostar but not for a non oced build)

[radaja]

nope.

[DaddyRabbit]

No budget info, however:

1 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128375 - Solid MOBO, no bells n whistles just gets the job done.
($184.99 after $15.00 MIR)

2 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202
($288.99 with free shipping)

3 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231222
($69.99)

So, provided you have the case, PSU, and GPU that will do the trick, you will have a video editing powerhouse for $543.97 (USD)

[ingeborgdot]

check out this motherboard

http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/showthread.php?t=218369

Wow, nice board. I don't want to spend that much right now. The price will come down in a year and I will switch over then I guess. I have the abit Ip35 pro which was not a bad board. Sometimes I just get the itch to switch.

[sabe]

This is always the cycle with hardware, one year later you're going to think, this is outdated, I want that other board, but that's too expensive, I wanna wait another year, etc etc.

Just buy what you need when you need it :)

[adamsleath]

ha;
im happy with my p5q-pro. P45. load-line calibration works (ie no vdroop under load) :up: not expensive.
power reg. is plenty for a super stable quad core.

ddr2 is cheap as so you can easily have 8 gigs.

i7 is the better cpu.. but boy are the motherboards expensive.