Hey all,
I haven't been on the forum in a few months as I've been too busy to "play", but I was happy to see the 2.8s released and the subsequent price drop in the slower procs. That said, I ordered a 2.53 today from Newegg.
Now the last time I was contemplating the upgrade, it was only going to be to a 1.8A. As with the CPUs, I see there are some new chipsets out there and I have no idea what is going on in the memory world right now, so naturally, the mobos I had in mind are out the window.
I was hoping someone could help me narrow down a good O/C-friendly (duh!) mobo for the 2.53. It doesn't need to be the permanent setup, but something that will hold me over for at least a few months and stands a good chance of getting 3.0+GHz stable on "good" air-cooling.
If memory serves, the SiS645DX chipsets were slightly out-performing the Intels 845s, but now I see SiS648DX and 845GLs.
For the time being, I would prefer integrated graphics unless there is a non-IG chipset that performs seriously better. So that would leave me with the 845G/GL?
Something with PCI/AGP lock, HW monitoring, and good DDR BIOS control (thinking 3000/3200 CL2). Everything is plus. I don't need RAID, ATA 133, LAN, 6-ch audio (2-ch would be nice , etc.
I seriously don't have time to scour the Net for all the lastest and I'd like to get a mobo/DDR ordered in time for the CPU to get here, so any help in narrowing a few choices down that I can check out would be really appreciated!
I haven't been on the forum in a few months as I've been too busy to "play", but I was happy to see the 2.8s released and the subsequent price drop in the slower procs. That said, I ordered a 2.53 today from Newegg.
Now the last time I was contemplating the upgrade, it was only going to be to a 1.8A. As with the CPUs, I see there are some new chipsets out there and I have no idea what is going on in the memory world right now, so naturally, the mobos I had in mind are out the window.
I was hoping someone could help me narrow down a good O/C-friendly (duh!) mobo for the 2.53. It doesn't need to be the permanent setup, but something that will hold me over for at least a few months and stands a good chance of getting 3.0+GHz stable on "good" air-cooling.
If memory serves, the SiS645DX chipsets were slightly out-performing the Intels 845s, but now I see SiS648DX and 845GLs.
For the time being, I would prefer integrated graphics unless there is a non-IG chipset that performs seriously better. So that would leave me with the 845G/GL?
Something with PCI/AGP lock, HW monitoring, and good DDR BIOS control (thinking 3000/3200 CL2). Everything is plus. I don't need RAID, ATA 133, LAN, 6-ch audio (2-ch would be nice , etc.
I seriously don't have time to scour the Net for all the lastest and I'd like to get a mobo/DDR ordered in time for the CPU to get here, so any help in narrowing a few choices down that I can check out would be really appreciated!