lokking for a solid base motherboard

you really can't go wrong with any of those three. Asus is my personal favorite as of now but that is the only board that I have owned.
 
Yep. Overclocking from the BIOS is very easy to do. For your Dell, you are correct. Their bios gives no options for ocing your processor
 
salvage-this said:
Yep. Overclocking from the BIOS is very easy to do. For your Dell, you are correct. Their bios gives no options for ocing your processor
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yeah its a bummer.. i spent the longest time trying haha. but, i guess thats why im building a new rig. thanks again (lol you are just a fountain of knowledge arent you? :))
 
I've just been looking at boards on the egg, and the board you chose is $290. You can get for $200:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131665

which looking through the specs, the only difference is 1 less PCIe lane, different audio chipset, and doesn't have dual ethernet ports. Basically it lacks useless features to save price. If you aren't going to be running 3 video cards, then the board posted would be a better choice for the price
 
haha funny thing is, i stumbles across that like 10 minuets after i posted that and i thought it looked good myself. what mobo would you recommend for a gaming rig?
 
Probably Asus. If you want to save a little more, an ASRock board, they are a subdivision of Asus and basically a 'testing ground' for new features they want to put on asus boards.
 
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haha funny thing is, i stumbles across that like 10 minuets after i posted that and i thought it looked good myself. what mobo would you recommend for a gaming rig?
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Depends, are you going AMD or Intel?

So far as brands go, Asus, Gigabyte or MSI, or for lower end, Foxconn, DFI or ASRock

If deffinately Intel on a socket 1366, the board I posted wouldn't be a bad start
 
The P6X58D-E is cheaper. The only difference that I can find is the absence of the extra LAN port, though, I think there's a difference in the heatpipe design as well. Review
 
ok guys i got a question. will this motherboard (the 200 dollar one (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131665)) be able to use this prossesor fan (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=2#scrollFullInfo) with this corsair RAM (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...4&cm_re=desktop_fan-_-20-145-304-_-Product)?? i really want that prossesor fan because people on this forum said it was great. but, it is also very large and some people have reported it not fitting because it was against the RAM... that would suck it that happened. so would these three components work?
 
Sorry a bit random but Aastii do you still have any of the bits you don't need any more. I was in particular looking for the FSP250-60MDN-120 250W PSU. Sorry for hijacking the thread, i've only just come across this forum and it's brilliant. Thanks mate
 
I would say probably not because of the heat spreader design, and because the PCB on the dominator memory is taller anyway.

I would also point out that 1366 boards support triple channel memory, that is about the only reason to get one over getting a 1156 board. If you aren't going to be utilising it, there is no point. The memory you chose there is designed to be in dual channel.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231304

would be a better choice for a 1366 board as they are designed to run in triple channel. They are also much lower than the dominator memory, so should fit.

You could also change the cooler to make sure it fits rathe than risk it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103089

or:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835242001

with

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608004

the second option would come out at slightly more than the noctua cooler, but you would be getting similar performance, and know it will fit.

What case are you going to be putting all of this in, as if it isn't a fairly large mid ATX case, the coolers won't be fitting

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@ madmax Yes I do, rather than using this thread, email me:

[email protected]
 
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i was actually thinking of picking up the HAF X. i wont have any space issues there... which leads me too my second point. this ASUS board only has two PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots! which means that i can only SLI two cards... (i was thinking about getting a GTX 470 and every once in a while i would get another one to SLI to that... and a little while after ill get another to SLI to that... (so in the end i would have 3 cards SLI'ed)

also, that RAM is nice, but do they have it at higher space (this one is only 6 gigs) and higher MHz? (thats why i was looking at the dominator because it had 1866MHz.)
 
extermonator said:
i was actually thinking of picking up the HAF X. i wont have any space issues there... which leads me too my second point. this ASUS board only has two PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots! which means that i can only SLI two cards... (i was thinking about getting a GTX 470 and every once in a while i would get another one to SLI to that... and a little while after ill get another to SLI to that... (so in the end i would have 3 cards SLI'ed)

also, that RAM is nice, but do they have it at higher space (this one is only 6 gigs) and higher MHz? (thats why i was looking at the dominator because it had 1866MHz.)
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you won't see any difference between 1600MHz and 1866 MHz. As for capacity, 6GB is plenty, however if you want more, you have to have it in increments of 3GB, rather than 2 as it is with dual channel. So you can get 3GB, 6, 9, 12, 15 etc, but you can't get 3GB sticks (so you can't have 3x3GB), if you wanted 9GB you would have to get 3x2GB and 3x1GB.

For SLI, if you look at current cards, let's say you had a HD4870, then got a second to crossfire them, now you could get a GTX460 and it would outperform them, 1, single card. SLI has it's uses, but 3 cards is pretty pointless really
 
ok thanks for the info.... so... i should only just SLI 2 then? should i still use the GTX 470? or do a GTX 460 like you said?
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with that RAM, should i get a clip on fan for them? (im thinking about overclocking)
 
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