Went and bought a new board today


Biostar TForce P965 Socket 775 ATX Motherboard Intel P965/ICH8 Chipset Intel Core 2 Processor PCI-E x16-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com

and was wonderin if anyone had any experience with it or just any opinions .........

at this point , anything is better than my ECS P4M900T-M , lol , this thing has almost NO O/C options .

No experience with that mobo, but I gotta point out that when I ordered my E6750 from Directron, it was in my hands the next day.
Of course, Houston isn't that far from Dallas, but nonetheless it points out quick "handling" times if nothing else.

Hmmm LOL I thought you were supposed to buy water blocks!
Letme know how it behaves since I'm looking for a cheap 775 board aswell...

I think I would go with the EVGA 650i board for a few $$ more, I would bet it OC's a bit better, I think either board is going to be limited to 2.1v for ram voltage.

eVGA nForce 650i Ultra 775 T1 LGA 775 ATX Motherboard 122-CK-NF66-T1 Mobo Mainboard Intel Core 2 Extreme/Quad/Duo CPUs Dual DDR2 800 PCI-E SATA RAID-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com

Hmm it's cheaper at New Egg!

Newegg.com - EVGA 122-CK-NF66-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i Ultra ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

And for 125$ (Maybe less elsewhere) you can get a ASUS 650I board with SLI support..and I know that one does realy well.

Newegg.com - ASUS P5N-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

Or..you can get the latest version of Intel's chipset...the P-35

It replaced the 965, and out performs it by a noticable amount, and was designed with 1333FSB and Quad Core support from the get go, instead of an upgraded old chipset.

Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

EDIT! Crap...saw you allready bought it, nevermind!

It's an OK board, I think there were better ones for the money though, but it should do just fine for a mild OC.

I did buy ( well barter'd for ) a Waterblock and am dealing now for another one , but thats for another system/OC rig . This I bought for my Q6600.

I'll definatly let ya know. I been reading more reviews and all of them say its a very good board for the price.

Scchpaanks!
I got a board now that overclocks alright, but it's a "combination" board, got agp and pci-e , got ddr and ddr2
I'm looking to buy cheap but still good, overclockable board with 4 ddr2 slots, hopefully 2 pci-e x16 slots....
And hmmm does anyone know about any board out there that got serial attached scsi on it? LOL (see thread about 18 bucks for 147gb 10000rpm serial attached scsi hdd)

Well my SPIFFY new T965 Biostar board arrived today so I'll let ya know how it is fairly soon B-Man . Gonna hook'r up as soon as my shop cools down (FREAKIN' HOT today )

Quote: Originally Posted by HigHTecHReDNecK Well my SPIFFY new T965 Biostar board arrived today so I'll let ya know how it is fairly soon B-Man . Gonna hook'r up as soon as my shop cools down (FREAKIN' HOT today )

Uh yaah! Thats what happens when you rip yer A/C out to use on yer PC!
I'll stay tuned for review, Thanks HTRN!

I was really happy with my old Biostar AM2 board. It was rock solid and didn't have problem overclocking--though I really didn't test it that much. Then lighting fried it and I had to switch to an ECS board.

Well, just started playin , but this board has a lot of O/C options for a buget board . I like the layout and even the color skeme , I'll let ya know more in a while . As of now I'd say well worth the $85 price tag .

Not many boards ( i think ) have the amount of O/C options I see in the bios on this one.

I will say 2 odd things ,

#1 the board shuts down every time i set a new o/c up in bios, then boots up ?? not reset mind you but actually powers off for a sec or so.

#2 the software O/C is kinda well bland but thats cool , i like bios O/C anyhow.

Quote: Originally Posted by HigHTecHReDNecK I will say 2 odd things , #1 the board shuts down every time i set a new o/c up in bios, then boots up ?? not reset mind you but actually powers off for a sec or so. #2 the software O/C is kinda well bland but thats cool , i like bios O/C anyhow.

1) Yup, pretty normal. All boards I've seen do that.

2) Yeah, serious overclockers want a nice clean BIOS, free of messy graphics and colours.

Ok so i've meesed with the board a bit , and WOW , its great , has V adjustments for all chips, tons of memory adjustments , and much much more.............

I looked around online and found some folks ( on Ln2 ) hitting over 500fsb with e6600's and so far havent found one bad thing about the board except ..................

Im in WAY OVER MY HEAD !!!!!!!!!!!! its gonna take quite a while for me to learn this board and all the different settings and what they do and how they effect each other .

looks like im goin BACK TO SCHOOL!!!!!!!!

So, for anyone looking , i would definatly say , YES!!! this board is WELL WORTH $85

Seems like you're gonna spend a lot of time in that shop, so why don't you go ahead and rip that A/C unit back off that CPU and cool yourself....

As for cooling, i got another idea....
I once,not long ago read about this guy that submersed his computer in hmmm i think mineral oil, which is completely non-conductive..
Then put jar/box/barrel with submersed computer in freezer...O/C the living crap outta it.....