What Asus mobo to buy for Intel Core 2 Duo CPU?

"Todd" <toddlesharris DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks guys for all the info.
>
> I had looked at the Asus P5W DH mobo and it looks pretty good.
> Althought this thing about a possible problem when running Vista and a
> second PCI (or PCIe?) board being plugged int does concern me. My plan
> is running an Nvidia 8800 GTX and a PCI Creative Labs X-Fi sound card.
> Since at some point next year, I plan on running Vista, I do want to
> make sure this stuff will work!
>
> Another thing, this may sound silly (probably is), but one of my
> concerns is that as far as I can tell, all of the currently available
> Asus mobo's that support Core2 Duo CPU's came out about 6-7 months ago.
>
> I could have the timing wrong, but isn't that before Core2 Duo CPU's
> shipped?
>
> A lot of Asus's boards in the past few months have BIOS upgrades to
> allow the boards to use Core2 Duo CPU's, and that makes me wonder, if
> these boards are just being patched to support the new CPU, are there
> going to be performance issues as compared to some brand new board
> coming out that was designed from the ground up for Core2 Duo support?
>
> As for the Nvidia 680i, again I would prefer an Intel chipset solution,
> but thanks for the info on the Nvidia chipset. I will take a serious
> look at that as well.


WAIT!

I have an Asus P5W DH Deluxe, but I wish I got a P5B Deluxe wifi instead as
it has more SATA ports on the southbridge, and doesn't have the stupid Sil
controller connected to it.

There is also a serious problem with this motherboard when using Vista.
Many PCI/PCIe cards cause it not to boot. One of these cards is the GeForce
8800GTX.

Lots of us are waiting for Asus to sort this problem out. Here is just one
thread discussing this, but there are many others if you look.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&id=200610221810346...board_i

ss.

Hi Barry,

Are these board better than the P5WDG2-WS-PRO?

Barry Watzman wrote:
> The P5B-E, P5B Deluxe or P5W-DH are the top Asus choices.
>
> The Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 is also a solid choice. And the Intel Bad Axe
> is a good choice.
>
>
> Todd wrote:
>> I am getting ready to upgrade my system. I am looking for an Asus
>> mobo, with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (perhaps Quad core, but probably
>> not).
>>
>> Anyways, I tend to stick with Intel Chipset mobo's.
>>
>> Anybody know if Nvidia's nForce chipset is any good? Slow/fast, stable,
>> etc.. ?
>>
>> All the Asus mobo's I've seen that have an Intel Chipset, support Intel
>> Core 2 Duo CPU's tend to be older mobo's from earlier this year or last
>> year, which simply have had a BIOS upgrade to add support to these
>> CPU's.
>>
>> I am looking for a newer mobo, and price is no object.
>>
>> Any body have any good recomendations?
>>
>> I've checked out the Asus site, but there is nothing new I've seen
>> there lately. Anybody know if Asus is coming out with a new crop of
>> mobo's in the next few months?
>>
>> I intend to purchase an Nvidia 8800 GTX video card with whatever mobo I
>> get, but I am not doing SLI, so I do not care if the second PCI Express
>> slot does 16x or not.
>>


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Gerry_uk