Uprade time!?!?

[Ghost(357mag)]

Hey folks, I havent been around computers much lately, so Im not in the know right now. Would like to hear advice on up grading with an eye towards nForce.

I got a crapo P35 mobo, needs to go. C2Q 9300, 2500mhz x 4. 4 sticks of ram, two 2gb, two 1gb. 6gb total! GTS 250, 19" Viewsonic (VP191b)(best in its day).

So what mobo will make this CPU sing, solid and allow me to fold F@H with out a poblem.

[powerarmour]

Obviously any P45 motherboard will be slightly faster than the P35, but there isn't a huge amount in it, the benefit is ICH10/R SATA ports, CrossfireX support and a solid 1600FSB support for overclocking your CPU, I'd recommend any of the Asus, Gigabyte or ASRock boards.

For the nForce S775 boards, the fastest chipset is the 730i (aka GeForce 9400) based ones, but most of them are in mATX format, e.g. http://www.gigabyte.com/products/produc ... id=2946#ov

You can get nForce 6 Series chipsets for S775 also, but I'd consider them a bit old and possibly slightly buggy tbh, but this one is pretty nice in regards to SLI and spare PCI-E slots http://www.gigabyte.com/products/produc ... id=2553#ov

Hope that helps a bit...

[Ghost(357mag)]

Thanks for the info, will take a closer look at these choices here. Thanks again!

[Ghost(357mag)]

For the nForce S775 boards, the fastest chipset is the 730i (aka GeForce 9400) based ones, but most of them are in mATX format, e.g. http://www.gigabyte.com/products/produc ... id=2946#ov

I dont mind the smaller format at all. That looks like a nice board. But how do I turn off the oboard video, which isnt needed and underpowered. I know it proclaims to have SLI, but its only WITH the onboard vid that you can SLI with. SO its not truely one.

From my latest reading, seems that nVidia STILL isnt putting out great drivers for these nForce rigs?!?! To bad they never really got behind it, cause I always wanted a nForce. Well, I had one once, back when I was a MOD here, years ago. It had so many issues and no one was fixxing it. Abit said it was VIdias, nVidia said it was ABits, they were also blaming it on the onboard raid controller too. Soo it was a stall mate I wasnt ready to sit back and watch. RMA'ed the stuff and went Intel.

[powerarmour]

I dont mind the smaller format at all. That looks like a nice board. But how do I turn off the oboard video, which isnt needed and underpowered. I know it proclaims to have SLI, but its only WITH the onboard vid that you can SLI with. SO its not truely one.

Yes that's unfortunately correct on that board, the S775 9400 that I used to have was the DFI GF9400-T2RS, and you could do SLI on that as it had 2x PCI-E x16 slots (although one only ran at x4 speed IIRC?) :- http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/g45 ... 263-5.html

From my latest reading, seems that nVidia STILL isnt putting out great drivers for these nForce rigs?!?! To bad they never really got behind it, cause I always wanted a nForce. Well, I had one once, back when I was a MOD here, years ago. It had so many issues and no one was fixxing it. Abit said it was VIdias, nVidia said it was ABits, they were also blaming it on the onboard raid controller too. Soo it was a stall mate I wasnt ready to sit back and watch. RMA'ed the stuff and went Intel.

Nvidia have all but pulled out of the motherboard chipset business, barring the ION/ION 2 integrated platforms. But since the deal with Intel recently, we might see a few more nforce boards in the future, but they'll probably have an Nvidia CPU on them this time...

But yeah, agreed on the issues (and we obviously still get them, check the driver forums!), that pretty much put most people off and they switched to Intel and AMD after that.

[Ghost(357mag)]

Hey Folks, Long time no see! Old post about to come to life again!

I been moaping around with this same rig for awhile now. and, the mobo JUST played out on me. Thought it was a PSU, just installed new one yesterday. Not it! Finally took at good hard look at the CAPS (capacitors) and they were swollen some, so its a dead mobo now.

So any updates to the Socket 775 issue here. Need new mobo, small format is fine. Got a C2-Quad @2500mhz to go in it!

[impar]

Greetings!

Think that a P45 is still the best choice.