need help

[maverix1302]

hi, i'm new here and i need some help. im planning to buy a new motherboard for my P4 3.20 lga 775. my motherboard sucks (GA 81865GVMF). any suggestions? thanks

[Jaz]

/Moved to Tech Talk.

The geeks can help you there. ;)

[Clements]

It looks like you are using this board:

http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Products/Products_GA-8I865GVMF-775.htm

Not a completely terrible board, but it appears to have no PCI-E/AGP slots and Intel Extreme 2 integrated graphics, which is bad news for gamers, and presumably why you would like to upgrade.

You are using a Gigabyte board, and they are pretty good for Intel. I would look into the following boards:

Gigabyte 8N-SLi Royal nForce4 SLi
Gigabyte 8N-SLi Pro nForce4 SLi
Gigabyte 8N-SLi nForce4 SLi

The top one is most expensive, but the bottom one is quite feature-rich and fairly cheap. All of these have dual 16x PCI-E slots and nForce4 chipset. You'll need to pick up a PCI-E graphics card for it, any card would be a huge improvement from what you have now.

[t0rek]

You would also try one with Intel chipsets, I don't know how much an nvidia chipset will perform better, but if you don't have plans to have two graphic cards at the same time (SLI), you could save a lot by buy a non SLI/Crossfire PCI-E compatible mobo

[maverix1302]

thank you for the info, i dont think they have SLI yet here in the philippines, but im thinking maybe an asus or abit mobo,with PCI-e,then an graphics card. regarding chipset - is i925x good? another thing, i got 2x512RAM, one is PC2700,the other is PC3200, replace?? whats the normal temp for P4 3.20 ? mine runs at an average of 62'C. post again when i get the mobo.

[TerraPhantm]

I don't know much about Intel, but I've always been a fan of DFI motherboards.

DFI LANPARTY UT 915P-T12 I recommend that one.