help deciding on a mobo - for a PD 805

[tommo123]

any recommendations? intels not really my thing. still learning.

short story - had a cheap PD 805 2nd hand in case my mobo needed one if it didnt recognise a C2D and needed a bios flash. dont need it now but would like to build a video encoding rig around it especially since these things are meant to clock fairly well. i have a spare mach2 gt so would of course use that

just something cheap and cheerful but can take this chip quite far. afaik, this thing runs at 133 x 20 = 2660mhz right? so something which can handle just 300fsb could run this chip very far

i've been looking at the ASROCK 865G DDR400 S775 or an Foxconn 661FX7MJ-RSH Socket 775 Motherboard

quite cheap at around £30/35 but also takes DDR which would be handy as i have some spare

would the PD be ok with this or would it suffer due to not having enough memory bandwidth?

[ghettotech]

My old NI8-SLI worked great and was cheap. If you can find a cheap one out there i would highly recommend it. Ran for a few months 24/7 @ 3.8ghz benched out over 4.0ghz no problems. I paid $48usd a few months back from a slickdeal.


so something which can handle just 300fsb could run this chip very far
Something that handles 200 FSB will get you far. 300fsb would be 6.0ghz @ 20x.

I wouldnt suggest a 965 or 975 since they dont support async ram. Makes O/Cing these chips harder.

[tommo123]

doesnt seem too cheap in the UK. way more expensive than the asrocks :(

when you say the chipsets dont support async ram, what do you mean mate?

EDIT

you mean no dividers for the RAM/FSB?

[tommo123]

decided for the DS3. will hopefully be ok and do the trick if/when i upgrade the CPU at some point (poss quadcore)