Advice needed on motherboard replacement

phoenix

phoenix

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I have to replace my damaged ASUS P5Q [p45+ICH10] and am wondering whether it would be worth saving myself some money by buying a cheaper, older model.I am more insterested in performance
and USB 2 and SATA 2 support than I am in bells and whistles such as RAID support, etc and was wondering whether some of the 975x and p35-based boards I have seen on DigitalSAONline might be worth it.

My limit is R1500

Thank you
 
There are precious few P35 mobo's around on dealer pricing, but I myself would love to get a P35. I find this very odd, but you can get lower and high end mobo easy peasy. There's not much between the P35/45 chipset, as far as performance goes. Seems better to just save R300-400 and get the older one.
 
Dude..Don't move backwards!!


P5Q ASUS Intel P45, LGA775, 1600FSB, 4xDual DDR2 1200, 1x PCI-x16 , 2xPCI-x1, 3xPCI, 1xATA133, 6xSATAII, 2x eSATA, Gbe Lan, 8ch-Sound, Max 12xUSB, 2x IEEE1394, ATX

That's the 1 you want.
 
The Joker said:
Dude..Don't move backwards!!


P5Q ASUS Intel P45, LGA775, 1600FSB, 4xDual DDR2 1200, 1x PCI-x16 , 2xPCI-x1, 3xPCI, 1xATA133, 6xSATAII, 2x eSATA, Gbe Lan, 8ch-Sound, Max 12xUSB, 2x IEEE1394, ATX

That's the 1 you want.
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I agree...thats a good board. Rather get a good board and future proof yourself.
 
That is what I had. Don't need more than 3 SATA and 3 USB. Don't need Firewire. Have DDR2 800 RAM and am not going to buy anything quicker than that.

What is eSATA and why is it important?

I would rather save a couple of hundered rands than have more ports than I need.

I have an E8400.
 
I agree...thats a good board. Rather get a good board and future proof yourself.
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I shan't be in any position to buy new components [like a Core 2 Quad] for the next three years our so. I normally do my upgrades in 3 to 4 year cycles, by which time I don't expect to find many CPUs or RAM that will co-operate with either a p35 or p45 motherboard. Given that LGA775-based motherboards are being replaced by LGA1366, I don't see P45 as being that much more "future proof" than p35.

Just my 1Z$.
 
Thank you, Joker. How important would you say that PCI-Express 2 support is, considering that I have a Radeon 4870?
 
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