exway Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 I'm still looking for perfect motherboard for e8400, After reading this forum i see the choice is beetwen Asus P5W, Intel BA2 and Gigabyte-P35-D3SP which only support 45nm. But I notice some users have random kernal panics and other problems. Its hardware problem or not so good install process ? User "mtotho" with P5W DH Deluxe and Q6600 seems to runs it really perfectly, maybe i should forget about 45nm for now ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimari Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 I'm in the exact same boat, except I'm also considering the Gigabyte PA-D3S4 instead of the BA2 for a 45nm processor. I have no idea which of those D3S* are good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 I'm still looking for perfect motherboard for e8400, After reading this forum i see the choice is beetwen Asus P5W, Intel BA2 and Gigabyte-P35-D3SP which only support 45nm. But I notice some users have random kernal panics and other problems. Its hardware problem or not so good install process ? User "mtotho" with P5W DH Deluxe and Q6600 seems to runs it really perfectly, maybe i should forget about 45nm for now ? Probably waiting is the best idea let all the fools pay the high prices then in a couple of months when the prices have come down a bit pick one up cheap that is what I am doing, always do it really its the only sane way to upgrade without costing a fortune. As a side note if your interested Gigabyte boards then it looks like Gigabyte has upgraded the BIOS's on most of the 965P series to support 45nm CPU as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 thanks for quoting me. I think the new bios update for the P5W DH does support new 45nm, atleast the new core 2 duo. I can only vouch for the DS3L on the gigabyte side.. it was extremely easy to install.. but like most motherboards, there are kernel panics with 4gbs of ram without ACHI enabled.. well ok lets enable AHCI. With ahci enabled, it makes it so only 2 of the 4 sata ports are detected in leopard. the P5w DH has AHCI enabled.. i am using 4 of the 6 ports (i believe the last 2 work.. if they didnt, it is not because of ahci). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exway Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 Great news ! Have you made this update and everything is ok ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrogers Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 thanks for quoting me. I think the new bios update for the P5W DH does support new 45nm, atleast the new core 2 duo. I can only vouch for the DS3L on the gigabyte side.. it was extremely easy to install.. but like most motherboards, there are kernel panics with 4gbs of ram without ACHI enabled.. well ok lets enable AHCI. With ahci enabled, it makes it so only 2 of the 4 sata ports are detected in leopard. the P5w DH has AHCI enabled.. i am using 4 of the 6 ports (i believe the last 2 work.. if they didnt, it is not because of ahci). Wait...the DS3L kernel panics if you've got 4+ GB of RAM and ACHI disabled? So you can have 4GB of RAM *or* 4 SATA ports?? Well {censored}...it's at the top of my shopping list right now. I suppose the P5W Deluxe would be better then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radov4n Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 DS3R is a great board. No panics, running AHCI, jMicron disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrogers Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 ^ How much RAM do you have? Anyone else have the DS3L with 4GB or more that can chime in about kernel panics and AHCI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankbo Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Anyone else have the DS3L with 4GB or more that can chime in about kernel panics and AHCI? I'm reviving a dead topic, I know, but I have the DS3L and I'm having trouble with AHCI in my Kalyway install. I ran into this thread looking for answers. If anyone with the DS3L and Kalyway has experience they'd like to share, please do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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