- Joined
- Jul 5, 2003
- Location
- Frederick, MD
This board: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=P43DE&s=775
Review: http://www.ocworkbench.com/2008/asrock/P43DE/g1.htm
I'm building a budget gaming computer for my brother and just settled on this motherboard, mostly due to my prior experiences with ASRock and the one review I saw for this board. I had a $600 budget to get everything but the case, so I had to settle on a cheap mb. He's not looking to do any serious oc'ing, but a small overclock would be welcome.
Here's the parts:
CPU: Q9550 E0
RAM: G.Skill 2gb x2 DDR2 1066
MB: ASRock P43DE
GPU: Sapphire HD 5770
HDD: Hitachi Deskstar 1tb
PSU: OCZ 500w StealthXStream
Any opinion on how this system will run/oc? I'm slightly concerned about running a C2Q on such a cheap board... but I had the same concerns with the board in my sig and it's fine (I've built three separate systems with that board model and they're all rock solid).
Review: http://www.ocworkbench.com/2008/asrock/P43DE/g1.htm
I'm building a budget gaming computer for my brother and just settled on this motherboard, mostly due to my prior experiences with ASRock and the one review I saw for this board. I had a $600 budget to get everything but the case, so I had to settle on a cheap mb. He's not looking to do any serious oc'ing, but a small overclock would be welcome.
Here's the parts:
CPU: Q9550 E0
RAM: G.Skill 2gb x2 DDR2 1066
MB: ASRock P43DE
GPU: Sapphire HD 5770
HDD: Hitachi Deskstar 1tb
PSU: OCZ 500w StealthXStream
Any opinion on how this system will run/oc? I'm slightly concerned about running a C2Q on such a cheap board... but I had the same concerns with the board in my sig and it's fine (I've built three separate systems with that board model and they're all rock solid).