Choosing a Motherboard

Samuel4u · Post by **Samuel4u** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:10 am

This one isn't urgent, but it's irritating me.

My normally faithful Gigabyte P965-DS3 has demonstrated a total inability to do all of these three tasks simultaneously:

1) overclock
2) run 4 DIMMs
3) boot with more than 1 USB device plugged in

This irks me

, since it was everybody's favorite overclocking board in it's day - but I guess that was a day when RAM was much more expensive, and people in general didn't test it with 4 sticks.

For now I shall simply not plug in my scanner/pendrive until I've booted into windows, but in the long run I'm on the lookout for a new motherboard. I don't care about SLI, firewire, RAID, or really anything beyond being able to do the three points above at the same time. I have 1 SATA HDD, 1 SATA DVD, and no floppy, serial, or parallel devices needing legacy sockets.

I currently have my eye on an Asus P5K-E WiFi (since it would be no bad thing to get rid of my PCI wireless card in the process) but I am open to suggestion from anyone who is managing all 3 of the above with a different board

Thoughts appreciated.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:22 am

AMD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131011

Intel
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131196

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:50 am

Samuel4u wrote:This one isn't urgent, but it's irritating me.

My normally faithful Gigabyte P965-DS3 has demonstrated a total inability to do all of these three tasks simultaneously:

2) run 4 DIMMs

You have this problem too? You know it's interesting. We have a few of these boards running in our offices as well as in a few client PCs. At one point I had installed 4 sticks of memory in a friends computer (R1 of the board) and it worked fine. About a month ago however I attempted to installed 4 sticks of memory in one of our computers and no matter what order or what manufacture RAM I could not get the computer to start up with 4 sticks in. The interesting part was the board that didn't work was the newer R2 board.

AFAIK the board had the most recent BIOS at the time. I wonder if there was one I missed or a new one out that has fixed the issue.[/offtopic]

My vote goes for the P35 based P5K-E.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:55 am

Sava700 wrote:Intel
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131011

AMD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131196

Backwards

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:59 am

YARDofSTUF wrote: Backwards

Oops

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:49 am

I love Asus motherboards...been using them for years, faithfully solid. I went through a few of the Gigabytes bites! The same DS3 965 board....several of them..I smashed to bits and to the trash.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:06 pm

meh... fixed it

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:13 pm

Sava700 wrote:meh... fixed it

I thought you were making a joke at first with both links being to intel. lol

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:39 pm

Much more expansive but I would pick this one

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131227