What intel Motherboard should I go for?

hey all,

I already decide on new tower case, cpu, graphics cards and memory.

Tower
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Antec Nine Hundred - Gaming Case with 200mm Top Fan
Antec TruePower Quattro 850W Modul (PSU)

Motherboard
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????????????

CPU
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping (2.4GHz 1066MHz)

Graphics Cards
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XFX 8800GTS 320MB DDR3 XT Edition DVIx2 PCI-E


Memorys
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Geil ULTRA DDR 2 2GB PC6400 (800MHZ)


I havnt decide which intel abit motherboard should I go for. Could you tell me which best abit motherboard there is

Cheers

i would go for an ASUS motherboard instead. believe me: asus is well known as a good mainboard producer. also, if you buy it from asus, you might pay 5-10 $ more, but you get lots of cables (eg. SATA or IDE cables) delivered with.

by the way: first you need to choose the motherboard, and THEN the other parts, because they might not fit into your mainboard's socked....

These are good,
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=117

Yep. ASUS is good, but after many years and hundreds of machines assembled, I have just one rule. If you are in doubt, get the Intel motherboard. They are not overclocking friendly, you may get it in anti-static bag only, the amount of extra cables and stuff is minimal (and I mean minimal), but they have one big advantage. They work! Enough for me. All my home and office machines are on Intel motherboards now.

Barney

I got a evga mobo for my Q6600, no fancy features but its £60 and stable.

The ASUS P5K is one really good motherboard.

As a side-note, I'd comment on the graphics card. The 8800GTS is now end of line. No more are being produced. The G92 and G98 are coming out right around the corner (early november). Get a cheap card for now (like the 8600GT) and just wait for the next series.
Also, as the ram price is really low, I'd go with 4GB (2x2GB). 800MHz ram with your set-up is pretty useless, as the CPU has a 1033MHz FSB. Even DDR2-667 can support up to 1333 so...
And I'd think that 850W is pretty much overkill as you only got 1 GFX card in there. I'd go with a quieter PSU.

thank you for all informations :) now could anyone tell me what Bus speed do( EG. 1066FSB)? I guess it does increase frame rate. it that correct?

Had anyone heard of ASRock Motherboard CORE1333-FULLHD and are they any good?

I am buying Q6600 System that got ASRock Motherboard CORE1333-FULLHD inside the tower and I want to know if is really good because I saw ASRock Motherboard CORE1333-FULLHD review that have mixed review about them.

can anyone let me know about this ASRock Motherboard CORE1333-FULLHD to know if any good?

cheers

Well, originally I was going to recommend Gigabyte, but now that they've gotten a bad rap, for who knows what reason, and I was about to recommend MSI, since they've been doing quite a lot of late. However, I'd recommend an EVGA 680i SLI A1, may probably work out to your advantage, imho. I know that Asus is big, but the nForce boards are every bit as good as a P35 mobo, since the nForce boards are great gaming mobos, and EVGA is probably best in that field, especially if you plan on a multi-GPU setup with SLI.

Ignore 1066 ram, its nearly twice the price of 800 with negligible speed benefit.

Well, even the 1333FSB seems cheaper than the 1066FSB counterparts, from what I see, in some cases. I mean, the Intel C2Ds in that new 1333FSB architecture seems cheaper in the long haul, on top of that. So that could probably be a decent sign that we could be seeing better when Penryn and Nehalem come around.

If you are not in a rush, the nVidia nForce 780i chipset is just around the corner (early November), which supports Tri-SLI, on top of being the latest chipset. Asus should be releasing something similar to the Striker Extreme on the new chipset, making one kick-ass motherboard.

I am not in rush to buy computer but I found on ebay called FAST PC LTD(which in yorkshire - my area) and I have check his FEEDBACK and he got ZERO NEGATIVE Feedback...impressive.

QUAD CORE Computer is very good for doing 3D Modelings and more.

The computer I using are AMD 1GHZ 256MB READION 9600 XT which does the job.

cheers

Asus, has never failed me yet.