[gaza14]

anyone know what is a good motherboard and price range. any help would be appreciated thanks.

[kanoakavirus]

Depends what you want to use your computer for?

[gaza14]

right now im am building one for gaming. i bought crysis a while back. not wanting it for that because it would be a bit expensive but a reasonable one for gaming, work would be what i need.

[Carbon]

Gigabyte P35C-DS3r. Accept no substitutes.

[Desertfish]

Asus P5N-E SLI. Not a bad mobo at around £65 and has some very good overclocking features as well. The nVidia 650i Nothbridge chip does run fairly hot on that one so you might want to chuck the standard heatsink and install another one instead but all in all a good entry level mobo for gaming.
Cheers:
Chris.

[Carbon]

650i is old & SLI is near useless with single-cards performing just as well.

[Desertfish]

Lol... didn't know 650i was that old... Anyway, you can run either 1 graphics card at PCI-Ex16 or 2 at PCI-Ex8. It's not because it says SLI in the motherboard name that you HAVE TO run it in SLI.

I read quite a lot of reviews about it. The place where I bought it had 96 reviews of users and generally they all said the same: the northbridge chip is running hot but once you got that sorted out, this is a very good board no matter if you're running it in single or dual card configuration.

Actually, looking at the price performance of this motherboard, I would recomend it to anyone. Apparently it performs as well as higher priced Asus boards so the extra saving there could be used for a slightly better CPU or so.

Cheers:
Chris

[Cew27]

gaza it depends on the cpu socket, if you want amd you will most likley need an am2 motherboard whereas if you want intel (ill make you get intel!) you will want 775, i have the 780i and it is amazing i love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gaza14]

yeah i've been looking at 775 today and i am thinking of getting one.

this one to be exact

[Tidusffx]

p5n-d 750sli p5n-e big bro 2 way sli i currently have.

e8400 at 3.8ghz
zotac amp 8800gt 700/1700/2000 THE BEST 8800gt money can buy i swear its brilliant! i want to sli it when i get the funds
2gb of 800mhz ram.

but that is if you want to SLI

if you dont want to then p35 gigabyte or the ip35 pro

[computer lover786]

If you want to use the computer for games then its best for you to run it as a virtual machine this is called VMware to use it you must acsess the BIOS !
Happy to help

[Carbon]

Originally Posted by computer lover786 If you want to use the computer for games then its best for you to run it as a virtual machine this is called VMware to use it you must acsess the BIOS ! Happy to help

..what?

[samjohnson]

This is what vmware is, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware
seems really interesting.

[Carbon]

I know what it is - but it's not useful for gaming, it has high overhead and is best used when running suspicious executables or testing out OSs. It also has nothing to do with motherboards.

[samjohnson]

I agree it doesn't have anything to do with the posters question. So why computer lover said to use vmware is beyond me.