Hi as you can see from my title i have loads of ddr2 kit and an E8400 sat about /ATI HD500 series GPU, 8gb of ram in 2z so i need four ram slots,what would be a good board to chuck this all in too?,,I have an Acer MRS600M here that will run it all with a D3.0ghz x2 but not the E 3.0x2
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Loads of DDR2 kit and a E8400
- Thread starter Geobuzby
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Moved this to Intel Motherboards. I don't know of an AMD E8400 
There aren't many new, good LGA775 motherboards out there. Your best bet would be to look at the used market for Gigabyte EP45 series boards or ASUS P5Q series boards. If you just need something to run at stock clocks, then any LGA775 should do fine.
There aren't many new, good LGA775 motherboards out there. Your best bet would be to look at the used market for Gigabyte EP45 series boards or ASUS P5Q series boards. If you just need something to run at stock clocks, then any LGA775 should do fine.
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As long as you don't post your own ebay links to try to sell your own items, then it's fine. You can always just post motherboard model numbers as well.
The typical good P45 chipset board goes for around $75-100 or so. The P5Q-E is the better board of the two you linked. The best Gigabyte boards would be EP45-UD3R, EP45-UD3P, or EP45-Extreme.
The typical good P45 chipset board goes for around $75-100 or so. The P5Q-E is the better board of the two you linked. The best Gigabyte boards would be EP45-UD3R, EP45-UD3P, or EP45-Extreme.
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Is this the same thing? or older and no good?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PC-Mother...aptopMotherboards_CPUs_CA&hash=item5899f2197b
As it alot cheaper???
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PC-Mother...aptopMotherboards_CPUs_CA&hash=item5899f2197b
As it alot cheaper???
Its a lower model P5Q vs P5QE (models listed in the title, FYI, and they look different).
Are you overclocking or just need something to work? If the latter, just grab the cheapest board you linked or that Mattno posted and call it a day. Otherwise, heed his advice on the overclocking side of things.
Are you overclocking or just need something to work? If the latter, just grab the cheapest board you linked or that Mattno posted and call it a day. Otherwise, heed his advice on the overclocking side of things.
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I just want to use the E8400,HD 500 series card 6 gig of ram with 2 500gig 7200rpm drives to use as a home system for streaming flims to 3 rooms at the same time,dont think il be clocking it,but would be fun if i could...but the cheaper and better the better,last link is the cr*P*r one but will run what i got??
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5Q/#CPUS
If its a C0 stepping, I have to imagine you are just fine, an E0, needs a slightly newer bios, but Im GUESSING it should have that bios... not sure though. Ask the ebayer to be 100% sure, but I would GUESS you should be ok.
If its a C0 stepping, I have to imagine you are just fine, an E0, needs a slightly newer bios, but Im GUESSING it should have that bios... not sure though. Ask the ebayer to be 100% sure, but I would GUESS you should be ok.
Its ok, we all start somewhere.
Ask them what version of bios is installed in the board or even when it was purchased, the later it was purchased the better as it is more likely to have a later bios installed. The stepping of the CPU can be found by running it on a program called CPUz. There may be other ways, but that is how I would know to check.
Ask them what version of bios is installed in the board or even when it was purchased, the later it was purchased the better as it is more likely to have a later bios installed. The stepping of the CPU can be found by running it on a program called CPUz. There may be other ways, but that is how I would know to check.
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Yea cheers will do,but this guy seams to sell it buy the bucket load,il msg and aask what bios is installed but he'l prob come back saying as is,so il ask also how old is it... I use CPUID but i ent got the CPU to do that,,the CPU's i have here is the d3.00ghz x2 and the E2.40ghz both run but they are conroe's
I use CPUID but i ent got the CPU to do that,,the CPU's i have here is the d3.00ghz x2 and the E2.40ghz both run but they are conroe's
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Cheers but i dont have the CPU to test...how do i post my cpuidz
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My E2220 is 65nm.level 2 cache 1mb,
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