Cant Choose Please Help!!!

[hamocidal]

Ok in less then two hours im going to buy a new motherboard. The ones that i cant choose between are the

 

MSI p45 Platinum (most expansive)

Pros: Looks sick clocks like hell

Cons: No IDE, The price

 

 

Asus p5q pro

Pros: Price??

Cons: ???

 

Gigabyte EP45-ds3r

Pros: Price, 8x USB

Cons: South and northbridge are cooled seperatly, capacitator around the cpu arent cooled.

 

Im gonna start overclocking, im a noob at OC right now. Personally i like the MSI the best, but you guys know more than me.

 

My cpu is a Intel E6750 wih g0 stepping

The ram i use is GEIL black dragon 4GB (2*2) 800mhz 5-5-5-15

 

 

Please help me out here

[jasonelmore]

Ok in less then two hours im going to buy a new motherboard. The ones that i cant choose between are the

 

MSI p45 Platinum (most expansive)

Pros: Looks sick clocks like hell

Cons: No IDE, The price

 

 

Asus p5q pro

Pros: Price??

Cons: ???

 

Gigabyte EP45-ds3r

Pros: Price, 8x USB

Cons: South and northbridge are cooled seperatly, capacitator around the cpu arent cooled.

 

Im gonna start overclocking, im a noob at OC right now. Personally i like the MSI the best, but you guys know more than me.

 

My cpu is a Intel E6750 wih g0 stepping

The ram i use is GEIL black dragon 4GB (2*2) 800mhz 5-5-5-15

 

 

Please help me out here

 

Either the MSI or ASUS will do you ok.... Do you have any IDE hard drives that the MSI would keep you from using? if not then anything you buy today is going to be SATA.. unless you just want full capability then go with the MSI since it's your Favorite.. but the ASUS is just as bood.. That gigabyte board is known to get a few FPS lower in gaming benchmarks. I would'nt recommend it at all.. Go Asus or MSI

[The Smith]

With an E6750, you need a motherboard able to reach high clocks if you want to have great OCs. You need 500FSB for it to reach only 4GHz.

[MINDSCI]

Both the MSI and Gigabyte boards are tested here at OCC.

 

The MSI and Gigabyte are overclocker friendly. The MSI has better stock heatsinks, but the gigabyte makes it super easy to upgrade the northbridge and Southbridge Chipset Coolers... I have the GA-P35-DS3L; I upgraded the Northbridge heatsink with a Thermalright cooler and the Southbridge with a fanless 100% Cu Enzotech heat sink both from Frozen CPU.

 

If I remember correctly, the MSI has more Overclocking options. Meanwhile, I have found Gigabyte's phone customer service to be fair- good. I have read Asus tech support is non existent.

 

I have my Gigabyte & E8400 OC'd at 3.8GHz, and it was super easy. The Gigabyte in your list has more OCing capabilities than mine.

[hamocidal]

Oke guys. I went for the ASUS. It was already 30 euros cheaper, and since i still us a IDE DVD drive it saved me a couple of bucks there. The only thing i wish it has is A: an Optical Out interface, and i wish it was a little more good looking. But looks isnt everything. But still i havent done much yet and its already faster than my previous motherboard.

[TimmyJames]

Oke guys. I went for the ASUS. It was already 30 euros cheaper, and since i still us a IDE DVD drive it saved me a couple of bucks there. The only thing i wish it has is A: an Optical Out interface, and i wish it was a little more good looking. But looks isnt everything. But still i havent done much yet and its already faster than my previous motherboard.

 

 

It may not be as handsome, but ugly can be cool too...at least that's what I tell myslef

 

But nice choice. My wife's friend works for MSI, not that it means anything, and they are ok, but the Asus is better choice when money factors in, IMO. I have a giga board, and it takes some getting used to, but is fairly user friendly.