Is this any good?

[fortyways]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131196

I just picked this up at Fry's for $100 (open box). I picked it over the Gigabyte MA-P35-DS3L because of the fancy heatsink on the northbridge.

Does anyone have any experience or opinions on this motherboard before I oepn it?

 

[PC eye]

It sees an Intel chipset and supports the Core 2 quad core models as well as the Socket 775 celeron models. Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI generally are the top three makes of boards with good support options. The Wi-Fi option as well as faster DDR2 1066 memory standard give that one an edge of the DDR2 800 models using Intel chipsets as one thing to consider.

 

[hermeslyre]

The p5k is a good board, from all I've heard, and it's a solid overclocker as well. Just as capable as Gigabytes DS3, if not more.

 

[fortyways]

Sounds good enough to me, thanks guys. I'll be back with more questions after I break it.

 

[PC eye]

oh nooooo....!!! don't break it!

Don't worry the first board in the new build M2N-E by Asus crapped out after the first 3 days! Fortunately the old 939 case was still sitting there waiting to see the drive wiped before giving that one to a family member.