E7200 mobo

[naveen572]

Hello guys

I want a mobo for e7200 c2d. which supports upto 8gb dual channel memory. preferably
ddr3 also for future. around Rs 4000.it needs to be reliable.i dont know about OCing.so dont need that type of boards.it needs to have good onboard graphics. in future i will buy a GPU but not now.good onboard audio.plz help me.

[imgame2]

Originally Posted by naveen572

Hello guys

I want a mobo for e7200 c2d. which supports upto 8gb dual channel memory. preferably
ddr3 also for future. around Rs 4000.it needs to be reliable.i dont know about OCing.so dont need that type of boards.it needs to have good onboard graphics. in future i will buy a GPU but not now.good onboard audio.plz help me.

u can't have everything in 4k ...can u ?? mobo that support DDR3 are costly and mobo which support both DDR3 and DDR2 comes around 8k ...decide whats important for u now and then one can suggest a good mobo for u.

[comp@ddict]

Just keep for DDR2 now.

A P35 NOE-F for 4k is the best option

[naveen572]

Thanks u guys for the Reply. Iheard that MSI P35 Neo Combo supports both DDR2& DDR3 memory.How much does it cost.if it is more than 5000 i will stick with DDR2 only as you guys advised. e7200 is around 5.2k in our city. is there a better c2d at that price
or is it the best?

[imgame2]

Originally Posted by naveen572

Thanks u guys for the Reply. Iheard that MSI P35 Neo Combo supports both DDR2& DDR3 memory.How much does it cost.if it is more than 5000 i will stick with DDR2 only as you guys advised. e7200 is around 5.2k in our city. is there a better c2d at that price
or is it the best?

P35 chipset based mobo doesn't have onboard VGA ...u will have to have a priority first what u want right now ...cos if u buy a mobo now ..u will have to buy a gfx card with any P35 chipset based mobo.

ur processor is perfect in the price range..... nothing better u can get than that...

[naveen572]

@imgame2
Ok i will stick with ddr2 and i will stretch my budget t0 5k. now suggest me a good mobo
for e7200. please give more than one so that i can have a choice.Thnks for help

[imgame2]

u haven't answered me ..do u want onboard VGA or not ???

[comp@ddict]

hmm, luks like he's doing something else.

Onboard VGA

630i


Else
P35

[imgame2]

Originally Posted by comp@ddict

Else
P35

i disagree with P35 when P45 board is available at 5.8k MSI P45 neo

[comp@ddict]

He is not keen on extending budget

[naveen572]

i want onboard vga. i will buy a video card in future when my budget allows. so please suggest a mobo which has that option. bear with me. iam a novice and dont know much hardware terminology. last time i didnot understand your Qn

Hello frnds
iam not a gamer. i will run Oracle, JDK . And CAD design software like SolidWorks, AutoCad. plz help chooze me a Mobo for e7200.Presently suggest a IGP Mobo with PCI e x 16 cards for future buying of video card.

[furious_gamer]

Originally Posted by naveen572

i want onboard vga. i will buy a video card in future when my budget allows. so please suggest a mobo which has that option. bear with me. iam a novice and dont know much hardware terminology. last time i didnot understand your Qn

Hello frnds
iam not a gamer. i will run Oracle, JDK . And CAD design software like SolidWorks, AutoCad. plz help chooze me a Mobo for e7200.Presently suggest a IGP Mobo with PCI e x 16 cards for future buying of video card.

Hmmm..... ASUS PK PL CM/VM - 3k
Palit N73PV - 2.8k
XFX 630i - 3.5k

[saqib_khan]

Go for XFX 630i motherboard

[furious_gamer]

BTW should anyone know the price of XFX 650i Mobo?

[naveen572]

Hey frnds

i checked XFX 630i and P5kpl cm/vm . they are good buy with onboard video. but they support only 4GB. bt i wnt whch supprts 8 GB.i found out this one....ASUS P5QL-EM - motherboard - micro ATX - iG43.....whch has onboard video n also supprts 8GB RAM....pls check this mobo n if it is gud fr E7200....pls give ur opinion....it is little expensive...around 4k-5k....

[imgame2]

Originally Posted by naveen572

Hey frnds

i checked XFX 630i and P5kpl cm/vm . they are good buy with onboard video. but they support only 4GB. bt i wnt whch supprts 8 GB.i found out this one....ASUS P5QL-EM - motherboard - micro ATX - iG43.....whch has onboard video n also supprts 8GB RAM....pls check this mobo n if it is gud fr E7200....pls give ur opinion....it is little expensive...around 4k-5k....

actually its much better than any of the mobo mentioned by people above ...it gives u everything u want it has PCIE 2.0,and has a onboard graphics much better than anything above mentioned ...i did not know that this mobo is available in market ....

now coming to RAM question, this mobo has only two RAM slots and it supports upto 8 Gb ...so u will have to put two 4GB sticks to get the 8Gb of RAM ...which will be little costlier

moreover u'll have to use a 64bit operating system like windows xp 64 bit of windows vista 64 bit to actually utilise RAM more than 3Gb.

other operating system will only recognise 3Gb of RAM no matter how much RAM u put in it.

so u will have to decide on this,if u are oky with RAM problem then u can go for this mobo ..it has PCIe 2.0 as well ...but u say its priced between 4k~5k ...can u tell us how much is it exactly priced ...??

this mobo is definately better than other mobo suggested

again personal curiosity ...why do u need 8Gb of RAM ???

[naveen572]

@imgame2
Thanx for ur reply. but it supprts 4 Dimm slots.so that can use first 2gb ram then fill up later other 3 slots. i bit confused abt config of mmry as given in asus.com. presenting it here so u can help me

{4 x240-pin DIMM, Max. 8 GB, DDR2 1066(O.C.)/800/667 Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory
Dual Channel memory architecture
*Overclock speed
**Due to chipset limitation, this motherboard only supports up to the total of 4 ranks (4 sides in total) of RAM at max.
*Supports 2 DIMM modules only for yellow DIMMs when over-clock to DDR2-1066 }

given like this what the line ** ed means?

also i want to clarify from u abt 64-bit. does not c2d support 64 bit os? so i plan
to use 64 bit os. actually i want to use 64-bit Linux Ubuntu OS in my new buid. as far as i know 64 bit can use more than 8gb ram. in future when applications needing more ram developed i will install another 6gb. thats my thinking. if iam wrong correct me.

there is no exact price but avg prize nr to 5k.

[acewin]

this a good mobo and would cost high as DG43 chipset is newer. would certainly be more than DG33 mobs from Asus.

DG33 also supports max of 8GB RAM.
64 bit OS is supported by C2D and all current proccies. what ingame2 meant was 32-bit OS supports max of 4GB RAM, and hence you will need 64-bit OS if putting more RAMs in here.

[imgame2]

Originally Posted by naveen572

@imgame2
Thanx for ur reply. but it supprts 4 Dimm slots.so that can use first 2gb ram then fill up later other 3 slots. i bit confused abt config of mmry as given in asus.com. presenting it here so u can help me

first of all i m sorry i confused ur mobo model number i thought it was P5QL-CM but u were talking about P5QL-EM,hence i wrote that above.

{4 x240-pin DIMM, Max. 8 GB, DDR2 1066(O.C.)/800/667 Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory
Dual Channel memory architecture
*Overclock speed
**Due to chipset limitation, this motherboard only supports up to the total of 4 ranks (4 sides in total) of RAM at max.
*Supports 2 DIMM modules only for yellow DIMMs when over-clock to DDR2-1066 }

now coming to this ranking terminology it can be confusing but to keep things simple i can tell u for desktop RAMs,which is usually two sided ..one side constitute a RANK so a RAM stick has TWO ranks genreally.

now this mobo can only support max of four RANKS means u can only put max of two sticks in the mobo.so to get 8Gb u need to put 2x4Gb ..thats is what it means.
which means u can't have a config of 4x2Gb with this particular mobo.

so u can't later on Add RAM stick with this particular mobo ..and i think thats a serious limitation.

also i want to clarify from u abt 64-bit. does not c2d support 64 bit os? so i plan
to use 64 bit os. actually i want to use 64-bit Linux Ubuntu OS in my new buid. as far as i know 64 bit can use more than 8gb ram. in future when applications needing more ram developed i will install another 6gb. thats my thinking. if iam wrong correct me.

all C2D natively support 64 bit so no worries there ..some ocassional worry can come if u want to stick with a particular software which is old and it might not work properly with 64bit windows version ...haven't used ubuntu much so can't comment on that.

as its clear from above discussion u can't add 6Gb of RAM later on only confuguration of RAM u can use with this mobo is

2Gb=2x1Gb
4Gb=2x2Gb
8Gb=2x4Gb

my personal opinion--
1.look for P5Q-VM
it doesn't have any such limitation.
2.4Gb will be enough memory for most of the application thats going to come in next 1 and half years,if u want to use a future proof mobo this doesn't give u that flexibility.

i hope i explained the stuff clearly if u are confused please get back to me !

[naveen572]

Thanx for detailed reply. i chkd p5q-vm . it has all i needed but its around 8.5k its out of my range.now i wanted to try like this. a p35 mobo and a cheap gfx card combo for <=6k. but mobo should suppt linux-64 bit.. chkd msi p35 neo-f very nice.but doesnt support linux.(accding to newegg buyer review).pls suggest any mobo u know.

[comp@ddict]

Other option is 610i or 630i, does tht support linux???(I'm not aware)

[acewin]

seriously, I do not understand how and a mobo does not support Linux

G45 mobos are good the onboard intel gfx card I hope is better than 8400/8500 atleast.
G45 means P45+intel gfx, so in 8.5K it is not a bad deal if you are not thinking of other gfx solution

[comp@ddict]

G45 @ 6.5k
check
techshop.in

[naveen572]

Thank u guys for pointing to G45 Mobo.It has all i wanted with onboard video and 8gb ram. the intel one is also availiable at 6.5k. i think it is better to buy it rather than a p35+gfx Combo. i hope this chipset also supports Linux.

[comp@ddict]

Hopefully, havn't read much abt it yet

[naveen572]

Now i have checked it. Latest Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha3 with latest linux kernel can be run on this mobo.if the price is also 6.5k in Hyd i think i can go with this Mobo.plz give ur comments

[acewin]

well, will say good choice, what else can we say.

[naveen572]

Hello guys
Iam back to square one. Intel Mobo has no 100% SOLID polymer capacitors for long life.
I got this alternative ASUS p5k-vm at 5.1k,100% solid,8gbram,onboard graphics,
linux compatible,1 pci-ex16 slot. in addition 2 pci,1 pci-e x 4(not 1). microATX.
can i go with this one? any major cons for this? plz give ur suggestions.

[sajudi]

Originally Posted by naveen572

Hey frnds

i checked XFX 630i and P5kpl cm/vm . they are good buy with onboard video. but they support only 4GB. bt i wnt whch supprts 8 GB.i found out this one....ASUS P5QL-EM - motherboard - micro ATX - iG43.....whch has onboard video n also supprts 8GB RAM....pls check this mobo n if it is gud fr E7200....pls give ur opinion....it is little expensive...around 4k-5k....

Hi naveen ,I didn't know Asus G45/43 based mobos were available in india.Are u sure Asus p5QL-EM costs between 4-5k?.Can u be a bit more specific,where did u get that price from?.And if u can get ur hands on a Asus G43 mobo under 5k,then look no further,go for it.Its ur best option.

[naveen572]

In india we cant get in 4k-5k.