I bought a Gigabyte board--965-DS3. E6400, ddr800 ram.
I'm perfectly happy with it. I wasn't planning on getting SLI/
Crossfire or anything, so this board is fine for me. haven't tried
overclocking yet, but people seem to have had some very good results.
There's always kick-worthy stuff out there, but for now, I'm happy.
Plus I managed to add support to the OpenDarwin (opensource OSX code)
ATA driver for the 965 chipset, so get good speed there too.
Scott
On Sep 15, 2006, at 3:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The current boards all have minor hiccups. I've seen the asus 570
intel board shown though its now about thanksgiving before people
ship volume. But I think a lot of people will kick themselves if
they wanted those features
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Christopher Klein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:11:15
To:"'The Hardware List'" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [H] New CL2 stepping for Core2 Duo?
So what's the consensus. Should I buy now or hold off? I want to buy
within the next month as I want to move my other machine over to a
server
role.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hayes Elkins
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 11:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] New CL2 stepping for Core2 Duo?
Only a few P965 boards are out that have ICH8R, and Intel's retail
branded
P965 will not have it. Only ones in supply are the Asus and Abit.
From: JRS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: The Hardware List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H] New CL2 stepping for Core2 Duo?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:15:49 -0700
How or why is that better than the P965 chipset?
Are there differences other than onboard graphics on the G965
chipset?
Get a G965 based motherboard (it has the integrated graphics which
you
wont
be using of course). You have all the perks, including the latest
intel fakeraid ICH8R and DDR2-800 support. The only thing you will
not have is crossfire/sli support as there is only one PCIe x16
port. However a
single
ATI x1950xtx or NV 7950GX2 should be plenty powerful unless you
intend
to
play Elder Scrolls Oblivion @ 2500x1600 on a 30" LCD.
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