C2D boards are all fairly quirky atm. I guess the best one will be the Intel badaxe board but it has its own drawbacks (overclocking).
All the boards are pretty picky about RAM as well, many high-speed DDR2 RAM modules need 2.0-2.2v to work, yet most of these board will only supply 1.8v at POST, so many people are buying a cheap stick of generic RAM to plug in, set RAM voltage, power down and swap RAM.....not ideal. I am currently battling with memory dividers on the Asus P5B Deluxe Wifi, apart from these dividers (which don't make sense) the board is very good, although it is one of the 1.8v memory boards so the likes of OCZ, Geil and G.Skill will almost certainly have issues... I have heard a lot of bad press about the Gigabyte boards, poor build quality, dying a lot, RAM issues (again).... If I had the hindsight at the time I would have gone for the Asus P5W DH Deluxe or P5WDG2-WS Extreme, making sure it was the new revision that supports Conroe. All the C2D Asus boards are on the mighty expensive side tho... Regards, Jason Tozer Database Analyst London Ext 1131 - 3SC.5 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: 16 August 2006 17:19 To: [email protected] Subject: [H] Core 2 motherboards Which Intel motherboard is recommend for Core 2 CPUs? Or is there a better one from another manufacturer? T ******* This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person. For further information about Clifford Chance please see our website at http://www.cliffordchance.com or refer to any Clifford Chance office. This firm is not authorised by the Financial Services Authority. However, we are included on the Register maintained by the Financial Services Authority so that we can carry on insurance mediation activity in the UK, which is broadly the advising on, selling and administration of insurance contracts. This part of our business, including arrangements for complaints or redress if something goes wrong, is regulated by The Law Society. The Register can be accessed via the Financial Services Authority website at www.fsa.gov.uk/register.
