help with motherboard

[Truepk]

im looking for a nvidia680 | CPU Socket Type LGA 775 | CPU Type Quad-core

im not very good with motherboards, but with everything else im find.
I just need to find decent motherboard.

budget keep within $190

[H2O sobe]

I'd honestly say try for an ABIT IP35 Pro (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813127030) - $169. Great overclocker.

If you are contempt with an 680i flavour, you can look at the eVGA boards.

[Truepk]

I'd honestly say try for an ABIT IP35 Pro (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813127030) - $169. Great overclocker.

If you are contempt with an 680i flavour, you can look at the eVGA boards.

wow that abit is just wat i need,
and does the certified for vista mean i have to use vista or can i use xp?


Here's wat im gunna build, im gunna buy each separetely.

Graphics Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130317

Case(got this 1 already)
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811166004

motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813127030

power supply
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817159058

processor
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819115017

Ram(gunna get 4 gigs, so 2 packs of the 2 1gig sticks)
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820231098

hard drive
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822148262

sound card
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16829271001

windows xp
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16832116056

keyboard
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16823126034

[H2O sobe]

Looks good, though I'd recommend a set of 2GB sticks rather than 4 1GB sticks. This will allow the use of dual channel, and better overclocks.

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122) - $84
(I have a set of this RAM and love it)

PC Power & Cooling S610EPS EPS12V 610W (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703005) - $109

And as for that video card, you can spend less on an 8800GT or $10-$20 more on a GTS 512Mb that will blow that away.

eVGA GeForce 8800GT 512 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130318) - $189
or
eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 512 (G92) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130337) - $254

The GT is faster than the 640MB GTS you picked, and the 512MB GTS I also placed here is even faster than the GT. They are both based around the newer gpu core for their time, G92.

I also listed another PSU, of which you can still search for others, but I wouldn't trust Coolmax too much. Stick with Seasonic, FSP Group, Silverstone, Corsair, Thermaltake, etc. Rosewill is actually a decent underated company with overvoltage protection. But just keep this in mind, your psu is the life of your computer, and having a bad power supply could take out your motherboard and more if it fails.

[H2O Raiden]

eVGA is the best at pretty much everything, just so you know. And no, that is not just an "opinion," they replace anything no matter how old it is, and for the most part.. no matter what the damage is, or how it was caused (even overclocking is covered under warranty).

As for other things:

Your OS selection.. go with XP Professional, not Home. It only costs a little bit more, but it saves many complications, trust me (I'm on a XP Home setup).

As for the Power Supply (PSU), OCZ is a good brand as well. They have lifetime warranties, and will replace a PSU no matter what has happened (within reason, obviously). I had one that was 5 years old go on me (just died.. just like that, all of a sudden), they sent me out a brand new 750w PSU, for a 350w PSU that was 5 years old. They are wonderful.
So yeah, either go OCZ, Thermaltake, or Coolermaster for your PSU [selection].


P.S. Sobe, I doubt if he will be overclocking ANYTHING, and if he is, I highly doubt he'll be overclocking any RAM modules. He doesn't know much about mobo's, so chances are he won't know, or want to know, anything about overclocking in the least.

[Truepk]

Looks good, though I'd recommend a set of 2GB sticks rather than 4 1GB sticks. This will allow the use of dual channel, and better overclocks.

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122) - $84
(I have a set of this RAM and love it)

PC Power & Cooling S610EPS EPS12V 610W (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703005) - $109

And as for that video card, you can spend less on an 8800GT or $10-$20 more on a GTS 512Mb that will blow that away.

eVGA GeForce 8800GT 512 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130318) - $189
or
eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 512 (G92) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130337) - $254

The GT is faster than the 640MB GTS you picked, and the 512MB GTS I also placed here is even faster than the GT. They are both based around the newer gpu core for their time, G92.

I also listed another PSU, of which you can still search for others, but I wouldn't trust Coolmax too much. Stick with Seasonic, FSP Group, Silverstone, Corsair, Thermaltake, etc. Rosewill is actually a decent underated company with overvoltage protection. But just keep this in mind, your psu is the life of your computer, and having a bad power supply could take out your motherboard and more if it fails.


woops i guess i put the wrong gts in there, i had multiple ones up and copy/pasted the wrong one. The one i wanted to copy/paste was that 512 gts.
thx for the extra help :)

[H2O Mercury]

If youre planning on using 3 or more gig of RAM make sure you get a 64Bit OS, also tbh quad core is over-rated with whats on the market that supports it, youre best off with a dual core, the intel wolfdale is pretty good.

Also with a mother board if you are after something that will last longer go for a board with more x16 PCI-E slots and SLI support (or crossfire) that way next time you want to get more ooomph out of your machine you can buy a duplicate graphics card, using an extra gives you about another 50% output.

Also with RAM its worth going for the same data transfer speed as your processor, most Intels run at 1066 MHz. You do pay more than you would for 800 MHz memory but the system operates quicker (noteably).

Last note, a SATA II hard drive is always a good investment, when running taks your processors cache memory fills quickly and your files will be running directly off the HD drive, look for a HD drive with around an 0.8ms search time (games will run faster with SATA II HD drive).

[Nakashige H2O]

vista 32 now supports 4 gigs

[Maxman]

If you're seriously looking for Windows Vista either x86 or x64 Edition along with 4GB of Ram, please browse:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777

As regard to Motherboard, you may consider eVGA's nForce 680i LT SLI 775 T1 contains NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI Chipset,
supports Intel Core 2 Extreme, Intel Core 2 Quad, Intel Core 2 Duo, Pentium EE, and Pentium processors, Dual Channel DDR2
1066/1333 Mhz FSB, pricing at US$ 189.99 in accordance with your budgetary requirements.

Please browse: http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=122-CK-NF67-T1 for more information.

Hope that the above referred information would serve the purpose.