Solid mobo for a 8400 CPU?

Hello there folks,
I'm looking to upgrade my system with a new CPU, mobo, RAM and perhaps a HD but that is optional and down the road.

Have
Opty 165 @ 2.6
2 GiG RAM
8800GT 512 MB

Looking into 8400 or perhaps 8500 (whichever overclocks better), decent mobo and 4Gig RAM.

There is no real budget limit but I don't want to pay more than I really need. On my current rig the most expensive thing was RAM and afterwards I tried a cheap version from my friend and run it at divider with almost no loss in performance. And his RAM cost about 1/3 of mine

So here it goes...
Rig will be a gaming rig only. No SLI or CF not now, not down the road. I have an old Audigy sound card, it is really old like 5-6 years I think. No idea which one it is (not Audigy 2 thats for sure), but worst case scenario I don't need some great onboard sound.

So solid mobo and RAM for me please

Here are the options for mobos: (local komplett)
http://www.komplett.se/k/kl.aspx?bn=10492

No idea what RAM I should go for but if running on a divider is not a big performance kill for games that I don't need top stuff

Thank you for your time!

The P5Q will do nicely. The P45 chipset will clock that E8400/E8500 no sweat. You might want to look into some better cooling over the stock cooler for the chip.

ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro- Cheap but effective
ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 - A little pricey but quiet and effective
XIGMATEK HDT-S1284EE - Very nice cooler for the price
Thermalright Ultra-120 (TRUE) which is king of the hill

https://www.inet.se/datorkomponenter/kylning---moddning/thermalright-ultra-120-extreme/6308508/
Would this be allright?


https://www.inet.se/?page=list&sstring=P5Q+&x=35&y=11
Which one of these would be ok?

Either one of these will do very nicely: P5Q Deluxe ,P5Q PRO ,P5Q-E .

Most will swear by the P5Q-E tho

And that heatsink is the one to get for sure!

P5Q-E. ILOVEIT

Biostar Tpower I45 ...

[Retail] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138118

[Open Box] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138118R

A vote for the Thermalright Ultra 120 as well, loving mine.

I have a P5Q-deluxe , and a E8500.... hit 4ghz (after returning my brand new corsair dominators 1066 2x2gig - faulty out the box!) with absolutely no stress whatsoever....

What fan would you recommend with Thermalright Ultra 120? I have pretty nice airflow in my Antec 1200 case but I would like a CPU fan as well, gonna push the CPU hardest I can

Yate Loons are generally recommended.

P45 chipset motherboards do quite well with E8X00 cpus. ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI... My TPower I45 and DFI Lanparty JR both have been solid performers. I also like this one from DFI... http://www.motherboardpro.com/DFI-L...-775-Intel-P45-ATX-DFI-Motherboard-p-684.html

Nebulous said:

Either one of these will do very nicely: P5Q Deluxe ,P5Q PRO ,P5Q-E .

Most will swear by the P5Q-E tho

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Why the P5Q-E > P5Q-pro? Just the extra PCI-E slots & extra LAN?

+1 on the P5Q-E ... I got the EM version and Im loving it.

The only one I wouldn't recommend is the EP45 series, by Gigabyte. It's awfully picky and just doesn't POST when something is even a little bit wrong. It's the only board I've owned, and I have stacks of them, which craps out this easily.