New motherboard advice

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lisa79

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Ok once i find a cheap place to get my motherboard i am gonna try overclocking the system, my current boardd is a p5gd1-fm (oem) so cant overclock on it, i am trying to get a asus p5gdc board, any ideas on whether its good for overclocking, i was thinking of getting the p5gd2 but it only takes ddr2 ram, i want to use the existing ram i have which is ddr sdram, also another question as my current computer is a fugitsu-siemens it does not have a full xp disk just a restore disk, when i hook up my new motherboard, will i have to do a complete reinstall of my OS and lose my files and programmes or will i just be able to hook up the new mobo with no problems, cheers alot in advance :)
 
You might be able to put a P5GD1 without having to do anything else (it uses DDR RAM not DDR2), although you probably wont get steller overclocks with it since the SATA controller doesn't work so well past a FSB of ~218MHz and if you have an nVidia PCIe graphics card it doesn't like out of spec PCIe frequencies, ATI cards are more tolerant though.
 
Alright thanx for the advice :o ive seen the p5gdc deluxe at ebuyer.com for £88.00 cheapest ive seen so far, if anyone finds a cheaper price lemme know, cheers

Lisa
 
it since the SATA controller doesn't work so well past a FSB of ~218MHz
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I had mine at 227 with the drive being detected ... of course drive performance was down ... im guessing the drive's ECC was kicking in enough to cause issues there .... but yeah anything past 215MHz is iffy.
 
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