Just switched to Intel

[trutech74]

Well, I was at this Intel retail edge event and i won a pentium d 820 and an intel d945psn board. Im pretty excited. I finally get to toss the athlon xp 2500+. Anyways i picked up a pny 6600 video card, the ultra 120 heatsink, and 2 gigs of the ocz platinum xtc ram. When they offer the bundles for sale in october ill swap out to the core 2 and the board they give you. Anyways, my question is how good are these intel boards? I figure it will work fine for now im not doing anythign crazy with this computer. And then also which fans are good for this heatsink? I have heard about people using two fans on it to push and pull the air. I am going to try this and i was looking for panaflo fans again but i found these and wondered if they are good too. They had better cfm and also lower db so i figured id look into it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811999344

[batboy]

Intel brand motherboards are known to be solid and dependable. But, typically they are very limited for overclocking.

[trutech74]

Yea, I assumed the overclocking is limited. I honestly dont plan on overclocking this time. Mabey just a little bit if it allows for it. I dont wanna mess anything up since im going to try selling it when I buy my core 2 in october.

[Layback Bear]

I use a 830 D on a 945Gnt board and it is solid but it is very poor for O/C. Would recommend using SATA for H/D

[Juice_22]

Bear how poor is it for overclocking? Will it OC at least 10%? I just picked one up today for real cheap. I was thinking of Using it to replace my ECS P4M800PRO-M mobo. I figure it would be more stable. But I will need to pick up a new Video Card.

[Trap05]

Any overclocking will have to be done via software programs as actual Intel boards are FSB locked.

[hUMANbEATbOX]

Any overclocking will have to be done via software programs as actual Intel boards are FSB locked.

the vast majority are, some aren't...

example, the Badaxe.

[blink922]

Like batboy said they are definately dependable, but OC options are limited.

[Layback Bear]

IMO this board is as solid as you can get but overclocking any thing except the Ram is a NO.