Motherboard for OCing the e8400

[nOcLuE98]

I was looking at two different boards,
Newegg.com - ABIT IP35 Pro LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
or the eVGA 780i board
The 780i is 120bucks more after rebate, so that is the main reason I am looking at the abit, but how well will it support the e8400? Anyone have any other boards they suggest for this processor.

Will pci-e 2.0 matter for the 9800 GX2? will I lose speed if i dont have one?

Thanks.
SLI doesnt matter to me, if I get the 780i I might not even use it for SLI. I have not decided.
Thanks

 

[veg1992]

get the IP35 Pro over the 780i (nVidia chipsets ftl) it'll work as long as the boards support 1333fsb (and all p35 boards do)

the PCI-e Cards don't even use their full bandwidth so you shouldn't care about the slot type

 

[Poizen22]

id say to be safe go for a x38 board because i do beleive a pci-e slot might botle neck it, considering its 2 gpu's thru one pci-e slot, and there built for pci-e 2.0. Newegg.com - ABIT IX38 Quad GT LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
50$ more and has pci-e 2.0

 

[csaefong]

I dont know why everyone hates the nVidia chipset boards i have a 680i striker extreme and its been wonderful haveing it i wouldint get anything else and you can always go sli if you want to.

 

[veg1992]

id say to be safe go for a x38 board because i do beleive a pci-e slot might botle neck it, considering its 2 gpu's thru one pci-e slot, and there built for pci-e 2.0. Newegg.com - ABIT IX38 Quad GT LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
50$ more and has pci-e 2.0

go with that instead if you can afford it, because its gonna overclock madly and you have Crossfire support which is far more efficient than SLi

 

[decibaL]

I dont know why everyone hates the nVidia chipset boards i have a 680i striker extreme and its been wonderful haveing it i wouldint get anything else and you can always go sli if you want to.

nvda boards cant clock as high

 

[nOcLuE98]

ok cool, I am looking at that x38 now. I think I can bring myself to spend an extra 50 $

230 is a lot more than 150... ( I was looking at mir) maybe I can get someone else to help pay me for this..

 

[Poizen22]

here is also this one NCIX.com - Buy Gigabyte X38-DS4 ATX LGA775 X38 DDR2 2PCI-E16 2PCI Corssfirex SATA2 RAID Sound GLAN 1394 Motherboard - GA-X38-DS4 In Canada.
Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-X38-DS4 LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

 

[nOcLuE98]

what is so good about that one on NCIX?

 

[thirdshiftdj]

Its good only if your from canada. Thats about it.