Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 945G Micro ATX Core2Duo mobo

This would be an economical way to get a C2D platform and even do a little overclocking with it.

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813128016

What do you think? Anyone else heard of this board?

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products...rboard&ProductID=2331&ProductName=GA-945GM-S2

No Vcore setting, so very little overclocking is possible. There's no VDIMM setting either, so a lot of higher-end DDR@ won't even work with it. I'm hoping Biostar comes out with a TForce mATX for Core 2 Duo. I've had a couple of T6100s and they do a nice job of overclocking Socket 939 X2s and Optys.

Hi Dave,

You pretty much got it spot on in all departments. I figure I'd just maybe coax it up to ~2.5 if I got lucky. This board would just be temporary until I could get a better board. Unfortunately these uATX boards seem to only support 1.8v DIMMs right now so I opted for some dirt cheap dimm modules. In any event this would out perform my overclocked Xeon duallie even at stock settings. The E6600 will do 400/3600 on a good board without any hardware mods and maybe I'll get one instead of the E6400 when it comes time to invest the $$$ later this year after the bidding wars are over

Here is the memory I was thinking about:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820231022

Here is the uATX I'd get if I was going AMD X2:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813136007

IMO, if you go AMD X2 now then you should go AM2 rather than the previous 939. And the only really good overclocking mATX AM2 board is the Biostar TForce 6100 AM2. I have the socket 939 version and it OCs very well.