new motherboard time

[kungpo]

It's time to do a spot of upgrading. Any recommendations on a decent board for around £150. It needs to take my existing Q6600 and 2x 2GB DDR2 (although I would consider switching to DDR3 if it's worthwhile).

[staffsMike]

Anything wrong with the P5B? I quite like mine.

You could go for something like an Asus P5Q-C .. takes DDR2 and DDR3 but it's probably not very good as the P5K board that did that wasn't that great either.

Is there anything particular you want it to be able to do?

[kungpo]

The P5B is fine - I just need to use it in a different application so rather than buying a cheapo board for the new PC, I figurered I would replace the one in my main rig and use the P5B in the new box.

[staffsMike]

OK well I wouldn't go as far as to spend £150.

If you want a nice board something like the DFI P45
http://scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=853562

If you want to stick with asus the P5Q-E isn't bad
http://scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=818508

Or your P5B's big brother
http://scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=818509

[Maccer101]

With what will be coming around the corner in the next twelve months it may be lighter on the pockets to get a standard P35 board for £50-65. But I don't know what your needs are.

[kungpo]

With what will be coming around the corner in the next twelve months it may be lighter on the pockets to get a standard P35 board for £50-65. But I don't know what your needs are.

There's always something coming around the corner lol!

I think the successor to the P5B would be fine. It's an opportunity to rebuild my PC into a slightly bigger case as well.

[Maccer101]

You're not wrong, but the next gen chips won't be socket 775.

But I'm just jealous cos I'm too tight to even think of spending £150 on a Motherboard

[kungpo]

Is this any good?

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=818516

i was about to complete the order but the P5Q Deluxe is pre-order only now/

I should add, it also has to have Intel RAID as well.

[Katar]

Any reason you went for the more expensive ASUS model? The P5Q-E is supposed to be the same spec as the P5Q Deluxe except for it only has 8 phase power saving rather then 16 phase on the Deluxe.