What is best nforce2 IGP board for overclocking?

[Quailane]

What board do you guys think is the best nforce2 IGP board for overclocking? I had 189FSB stable on my shuttle MN31N, but I couldn't change voltages or multipliers. High fsb is nice. I could boot into windows at 195fsb on the shuttle, but games would crash about once every hour at 192. I would like something that I can set multipliers and voltages on more than a high fsb, because we all know that top-end cpu power is better than more bandwidth in most cases. I'm going to reuse my ram, so I don't want it to go to waste too bad. Just tell me what you guys think.

 

[funnyperson1]

Rather than pay $80-90 for a good overclocking integrated mobo I would get a cheap, good overclocking nforce2 ultra mobo and get a 30-40 dollar Geforce 4 MX.

A good canidate would be a Shuttle AN35Ultra for $50 and an MX440 or Geforce 2.

 

[Quailane]

I actually have the products you mentioned at my house. All three of them. The reason I wanted integrated graphics was because it is actually better than regular mx440. Trust me, I have used both here at home. Plus, the integrated graphics boards are way cheap on newegg refurb, like where I got my current one for $55. Now it's $50 there. All I want is an IGP board with overclocking features. There is no way, even if I go to the bargain bin, that I will be able to beat the nforce2 IGP at such a low cost, even buying the board and vid card at newegg refurb. I'd have to spend about $100 there for the same thing.
BTW-I don't really like the shuttle an35n. On paper it seems great, but it is just not even close to any of the top performing nforce2 ultra 400 boards. It lacks the bios features and support, as well as overall overclockability. The MN31N was awesome however. Great performer except for overclocking features which was zip except for fsb changes.

 

[Alacritan]

Here's an idea. Save your money and your current mobo, and buy a better processor or graphics card. IGP will always suck. There's nothing wrong with your current mobo, since you probably won't have faster RAM than 333mhz DDR and your CPU won't need a 200mhz FSB (400mhz effectively) anyway. But a new graphics card or processor. Buying a new IGP NF2 mobo is throwing your money away for a marginal increase in performance, if any.

 

[josephtischer]

I agree. Just wait 2 to 3 more months and you will have a bumper crop of stuff to choose from along with some nice new dual channel boards from chipsets for the A64 fam.

 

[Quailane]

I guess I'll just wait for that A64 3000+ and some newegg refurb motherboard.