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I am mainly lurke around reading all the cool stuff you folks have done to your systems. Anyway here is another request for a MB recommendation. I presently am using a Abit IP35 Pro that is getting flakey. I need to enter the bios info every once in a while and one of the ethernet ports has gone belly up. So it is time to swap it out before a catastrophic failure occurs. I want to go for expandability to perhaps a quad core & faster memory in the future but would like to keep all the equipment I have for now. CPU/Memory/HS etc. I also don't do much OC'ing and not much gaming. See sig for what I presently have.

What say ye?
 
Those look like good boards. My concern is the U120E fitting. I presently have two fans in a push/pull config. As far as budget goes...... hmmmm.... I would like to keep it to $200ish.
 
So far so good with the UD3P MB. I only have two gripes. 1) Not enough fan headers. One more would be nice. 2) I have to tweak on the bios for the memory to come up properly. Right now it is at 1066 vs 1150. I also bought the OCZ memory recommended on the GigaByte website.
 
fomunda said:
So far so good with the UD3P MB. I only have two gripes. 1) Not enough fan headers. One more would be nice. 2) I have to tweak on the bios for the memory to come up properly. Right now it is at 1066 vs 1150. I also bought the OCZ memory recommended on the GigaByte website.
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1) That's what you always will wish... Just get fans with the molex connectivity option... :I
2) That's not the motherboard's "fault" by any means. That happens with any RAM over DDR2 800
 
BG-0 said:
1) That's what you always will wish... Just get fans with the molex connectivity option... :I
2) That's not the motherboard's "fault" by any means. That happens with any RAM over DDR2 800
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I ended up buying the Scyth fan control panel. I need to be able to quiet it down a tad. Regarding the memroy.. I beg to differ. I have experience writing embedded code and it seems to me the mb mfgrs could add the code to add some smarts in the bios. But that is me.....

I also got a good deal on a Q9650 and I should be installing the proc in the next week. Will be interesting going from a dual core @ 3ghz to a quad core @ 3ghz

Needless to say I am happy with the udp3.
 
Yeah, as long as you aren't doing anything fancy like putting RAID cards and stuff in em the UD3P's have looked pretty killer awhile now,obviously is a solid MOBO.

Used to use Gigabytes when I had Athlon system's, haven't in awhile but that board really kicks butt for what it does from any reviews I'd read.
 
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