Hi everyone,
As many of you are into PC system building I was wondering what current motherboards you would recommend for a Core 2 Duo CPU? The Q6600 to be exact. I normally keep up to speed with motherboards, but haven't built a standard PC for about a year; and there seem to be a lot of socket 775 motherboards around at the moment to have to look though.
I'm currently very interested in the Asus P5Q Deluxe, or the less expensive Asus P5Q Pro. Which out of those two is recommended? The Deluxe is £50 more than the Pro and doesn't really offer that much more for the money. It does have better audio, but the system would be using an XFI sound card so that doesn't matter. It has dual bios recovery, but the Pro can be recovered from a memory stick, and it does have 16 phase power management compared to 8 phase. But other than that I can't see all that much difference for the price. Only issue I can see with these two boards is that the two PCI slots get covered if you use a dual height graphics card. But I'm only intending to stick a single ATI 4870 in the system anyway.
Any other makes and models to recommend? I'm thinking around the £100 price range for the motherboard. Less is obviously better as more could then be spent on other parts.
As many of you are into PC system building I was wondering what current motherboards you would recommend for a Core 2 Duo CPU? The Q6600 to be exact. I normally keep up to speed with motherboards, but haven't built a standard PC for about a year; and there seem to be a lot of socket 775 motherboards around at the moment to have to look though.
I'm currently very interested in the Asus P5Q Deluxe, or the less expensive Asus P5Q Pro. Which out of those two is recommended? The Deluxe is £50 more than the Pro and doesn't really offer that much more for the money. It does have better audio, but the system would be using an XFI sound card so that doesn't matter. It has dual bios recovery, but the Pro can be recovered from a memory stick, and it does have 16 phase power management compared to 8 phase. But other than that I can't see all that much difference for the price. Only issue I can see with these two boards is that the two PCI slots get covered if you use a dual height graphics card. But I'm only intending to stick a single ATI 4870 in the system anyway.
Any other makes and models to recommend? I'm thinking around the £100 price range for the motherboard. Less is obviously better as more could then be spent on other parts.