Buying a new motherboard soon

I am in the need for a new motherboard, and will buy within 2 weeks. I was looking at several different boards around the $100 range on newegg and have come up with 4 different ones.

- DFI Infinity P35 'Blood-Iron'
- DFI Infinity P965-S 'Dark'
- Gigabyte P35 DS3L
- Gigabyte P35 DS3R

Now, I've read a few reviews on all of these and they all seem pretty good, but I just can't narrow it down. I'll be overclocking an e4300 or an e6300, but I don't want to spend countless hours in the BIOS trying to solve some ridiculous puzzle about why some dumb little setting won't let me get the moderate clock I want.

Also, I don't need all sorts of fancy gadgets or features, just something reliable that doesn't have any damn, stupid retarded issues that I keep hearing about. The only dependencies I have are RAID 0, a pci slot for my sound card, a pcie slot for my 8800gts, a couple of USB ports and maybe an eSATA, though it's not really important.

In a nutshell: reliable, sturdy, around a hundred bucks, and clocks well enough.

If you have any other suggestions, I'm open to them.

Thanks.

i would go with any p35 board either dfi or gigabyte will be fine go with which ever is close to ur budget

redrumy3 said:

i would go with any p35 board either dfi or gigabyte will be fine go with which ever is close to ur budget

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All of them are very close to my budget (within 10 to 15 dollars) but I guess I will take a closer look at their features and layouts, and maybe dig a little deeper into the reviews.

Thanks for the advice, appreciate it.

Ggiabyte DS3R for the win man! P35 chispet all the way

deadpixel said:

Ggiabyte DS3R for the win man! P35 chispet all the way

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I was reading up on the DS3R, and according to reviews and some personal experience it kicks *** and fits the profile I am looking for. It isn't too far out of my price range, but I can afford it, just spending more on the comp stuff than normal, but that is what always happens, lol.