Over-clocking Intel boards are not that easy when compared to brands like ASUS,Gigabyte, MSI ....
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If you are thinking about playing games using decent settings at least go for a Nvidia Geforce9600GT or ATi HD3850. Anything below them will make you regret it.
Just google and see about Motherboard brands and you will find Asus,Gigabyte,EVGA to be the leading in the reliability/quality wise. Intel is considered to be quite unreliable by s most pc enthusiast but other ppl think that since the brand name is intel ,the boards will be good as their processors. This is wrong because intel doesn't actually have a MB manufacturing plant. They make their boards through Foxconn and brand it intel.
So if you can afford it avoid MB brands like intel,foxconn,asrock and try to go for a Asus ,gigabyte or MSI.
Another thing, getting a DDR3 option for a older socket (LGA775) is useless. Cos you won't see a significant performance increase by getting a DDR3 over DDR2 on that config. Getting DDR3 would be of value when dealing with the corei series only.
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100509014953AAoXVr5
If you are thinking about playing games using decent settings at least go for a Nvidia Geforce9600GT or ATi HD3850. Anything below them will make you regret it.
Just google and see about Motherboard brands and you will find Asus,Gigabyte,EVGA to be the leading in the reliability/quality wise. Intel is considered to be quite unreliable by s most pc enthusiast but other ppl think that since the brand name is intel ,the boards will be good as their processors. This is wrong because intel doesn't actually have a MB manufacturing plant. They make their boards through Foxconn and brand it intel.
So if you can afford it avoid MB brands like intel,foxconn,asrock and try to go for a Asus ,gigabyte or MSI.
Another thing, getting a DDR3 option for a older socket (LGA775) is useless. Cos you won't see a significant performance increase by getting a DDR3 over DDR2 on that config. Getting DDR3 would be of value when dealing with the corei series only.
