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I'm presently re-tooling my current desktop machine as my new media box as my previous p4 wasn't capable of 720/1080p. My current desktop is a 2.3ghz Core2Quad on an Intel DG45ID with ICH10. I'd like to replace the board when I hand the hardware down to the media box because the Intel board a) takes about ten years to boot up :) has buggy USB and so far hasn't managed to get Snow Leopard on there.

 

I wouldn't mind being able to squeeze a few extra mhz out of the cpu if possible. 2.6ghz would be good. Can anyone recommend a 775 motherboard that works well with Snow Leopard, can overclock, and is fairly common and easy to obtain. Thanks. Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this, I couldn't decide which would be most appropriate.

There are plenty of good boards out there for 775. I use the Gigabyte EP45-UD3R, but any of their similar boards are good and there is a wealth of forum support info for these boards. Just checking quickly, Newegg has the EP45-UD3P at $110 after MIR currently. I can easily overclock a 6600 2.4 GHz to well over 3 GHz (air cooled) - stable on Snow, Ubuntu 9.10 and Win XP.

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