I'm building up a seriously budget upgrade, I've picked up a cheap e2180 and want a motherboard that's going to allow me to overclock it pretty well, 3GHz would be plenty for me, so would need to achieve a 300MHz fsb. I'm looking at a couple of old chipset boards based on the 965 chipset. What are the bonefits of a newer P35 chipset and what would you guys recommend?! Oh forgot budget is as cheap as poss, max £55. Cheers Andy
P35 will "allow you to overclock it pretty well". You'll need a decent cooler for E2180/>3GHz. Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L cost me a nats under £55 but now unobtainium. For under £50 look at their P31 boards. Limited to 4Gb RAM but fine for a budget system and similar excellent BIOS to P35. Note you can also shave a few quid with DDR2-667, good to 333 FSB.
cheers for the pointer to ebuyer, i hadn't checked it yet for the ep31, I've already got an akasa 965 lined up for cooling duties , looks like i should be able to get cpu, mobo, cooler and ram for under £120
abit ip-35 is a solid overclocker, it was going for ~$80CDN last time i checked which i believe works out to under £55.
Abit uGuru is the best BIOS interface in the industry, if you want easy overclocking with minimal confusion, Abit is the company you should go for (at least for P35 boards)
Near enough (£54.39, free delivery) I don't think you'll go far wrong with Abit, Asus, Gigabyte or MSI boards.
Hardly within the £55 max, cheapest i can see it on the net is £85ish. The Abit is tempting (I currently have an abit S939 board), but i think the gigabyte P31 board wins due to it being cheaper by nearly a tenner which is how much the akasa 965 is. Looks like i'll be running with the mobo and cooler from the bit-tech budget system
