Looking for a new motherboard, advice please.

Feek · 02-08-2007, 09:09

In case it gets missed in the other thread, I'm looking for a motherboard to replace my Asus P5N-E SLI

My requirements are quite specific, it needs to be a socket 775 board that can take my Noctua NH-U12F cooler and work well with 4Gb RAM using Vista x64.

The cooler is quite big and has a backplate - It will fit many different types of socket but I think I dumped all the mounts I'm not using so a socket 775 is essential. Working with 4Gb (4 x 1Gb, matched dual channel pairs of DDR2 from OCZ) is also essential. Reliability is even more essential as the P5N-E SLI is crap. Overclock ability isn't crucial but would be nice to do it once I've got a nice stable system. I will be rebuilding the OS for the new build so chipset isn't really important to me (how pleased am I that I never activated Vista

).

This is probably the only time I've regretted not having an OcUK account as being able to search the hardware forums is useful for this sort of thing!

02-08-2007, 09:09	#1
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Looking for a new motherboard, advice please. In case it gets missed in the other thread, I'm looking for a motherboard to replace my Asus P5N-E SLI My requirements are quite specific, it needs to be a socket 775 board that can take my Noctua NH-U12F cooler and work well with 4Gb RAM using Vista x64. The cooler is quite big and has a backplate - It will fit many different types of socket but I think I dumped all the mounts I'm not using so a socket 775 is essential. Working with 4Gb (4 x 1Gb, matched dual channel pairs of DDR2 from OCZ) is also essential. Reliability is even more essential as the P5N-E SLI is crap. Overclock ability isn't crucial but would be nice to do it once I've got a nice stable system. I will be rebuilding the OS for the new build so chipset isn't really important to me (how pleased am I that I never activated Vista ). This is probably the only time I've regretted not having an OcUK account as being able to search the hardware forums is useful for this sort of thing! __________________