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by martintmccarthy

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hi there,

my dad and i are planning on building a homa built computer and we were wondering which mother board to go for. we have a few requirements though.

1. on board sound/graphics cards and wifi
2. dual graphic card slot
3. space for 8 gb ram

what motheboards would you recommend?

thanks

(ps. we want a socket 775 motherboard that supports ddr2 and we are on a budget of about 100 euro or so)

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by hal 9000

But none the less the Gigabyte Brand seems to offer the best performance and reliability combination for the money spent. Try looking here for what is actually available

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_List.aspx?VenderType=Intel&CPUType=socket+775

Make your selection as to what you actually want and then try to find a reseller locally.

The P43 & P45 Chip Set M'Boards will support 16 GIG's of RAM but if you are planning on using some form of Windows as an OS you'll need to be looking at a 64 Bit Version of whatever it is you are looking at here as the 32 Bit Versions do not use more than about 3.3 GIG's of RAM. This is the upper design limit of that OS.

Col

by .martin.

has
2 PCIe 2.0 x16 slots
on board sound
up to 16GB RAM (DDR2)
on board WIFI

no on board graphics (I don't know why you would want it)

it costs about 150 euros

by half9

I have been using Asus boards for about 5 years now and have had no real problems. Only tip I can give is they like quality ram
My supplier was a big gigabyte fan but has recently changed to Asus, after a couple of board failures

by hal 9000

Moving away from anything ASUS or ABIT back to Gigabyte.

I used to have a GA6-BXDY Gigabyte M'Board that took 2 450 P3's with 1 GIG of 100 MHZ SD RAM which was faster than all of the ASUS and ABit P4's that I ever mounted. Their Chip Sets just seemed to be Too Slow compared to what that Old Server Board would do with a 440 BX Chip Set. It was the best M'Board I have ever used and I'm still hurt that it died. :(

The ABit was out of Desperation after performance issues with the ASUS M'Boards that where just slower than the old Dual CPU Gigabyte unit. I was very quickly unhappy with that one as being the Top of the Range the BIOS was telling me lies without the RAID Option available. At the time there where no replacements available so I just tried to live with it. I've finally had enough of it's strange behavior and have ordered a Gigabyte to replace it with. I know that they work well though even with a Top End Quad Core I still maintain they are slower than that old P2/3 Board.

Besides according to Gigabyte that have twice as much depth of Copper on their Tracks, Ferrite Cores for their Chokes and Solid Capacitors so they just have to be better. :^0

Col

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