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Mooyo

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I've done some reading around and it appears that most motherboards that are based on the ip35 chipset seem to overclock reasonably well. I've been looking at Gigabyte's GA-P35-DS3L board or some of the ASUS PK5 mobos and they have been pretty popular.

I'm looking to spend anywhere from $80 to $175 or so on the motherboard and was wondering if there would be any other recommendations. Also, there seem to be a plethora of PK5 options to pick from; are there any in particular that are known to be a bad choice? Or a good choice for that matter

EDIT I was also curious if the mobos with 680i chipsets were any good?
 
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there are no more good 680i options imo, the best was the A1 board from evga. 780i is due out next year now... i suggest looking at what you want to do, if you see going SLI then look at the Abit 680i based board as a good replacement for the Evga board. if you dont want sli and just plan for a single highend card, then go p35. my suggestions for boards are any of Abit IP35 boards... then it would be the gigabyte boards p35-s3l,p35-ds3l,p35-ds3,p35-ds3r.
 
All Abit p35 board are good ... very easy to oc and lot of setting inside bios ...imo best board design ... look for the ip35-pro ... arround 175$ ...
 
yea i forgot about that...newegg.com has it with a MIR right now making it 149 after MIR.
 
I have a GA-P35-DS3R and its awesome....I only had a short go on it before my PSU gave up (not related) and i got it to 490fsb :D:D
 
Appreciate all of the input, thanks guys! Looks like I'm gonna pick up one of the Gigabyte boards.
 
IP35-Pro is the bomb! One just came in the mail yesterday, too bad its for a friend. :(


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Gigabyte boards are great as well. Worked a lot with the DS3R and DS3L. :)
 
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