Which chipset will your next motherboard use?

***Veridian3*** · Jan 9, 2008, 01:19 PM

There have been a whole load of new chipsets released recently. Which one takes your fancy as your next upgrade? (Or if you bought a board in the last few months what does it use?)

Discuss!

***temeteus82*** · Jan 9, 2008, 01:29 PM

P35 for me it has all what I need.

INSTG8R · Jan 9, 2008, 04:30 PM

I am not all that happy with my IP35 Pro. As usual Intel uses "fake SATA" which they have been doing forever. Basically the hobble them unless you run them in RAID so you get ICH9 not ICH9R, so no NCQ and nothing close to SATA II speeds. Its fussy with memory(not just the Abit board either)
I personally think my Opteron 170 on my Abit AT8 32x is a faster and ALOT more stable setup all round.
I would love to get another AMD/ATI chipset board but until they sort out their current CPU issues I guess Im sticking with my E6660/IP35-Pro warts and all.....

**ChaosMinionX** · Jan 9, 2008, 04:38 PM

Whatever extreme chipset comes after P45

(no thats not P35 mistype)

X38 currently.

***temeteus82*** · Jan 9, 2008, 05:33 PM

If I recall right AHCI mode is on IHC9 and it has NCQ support? Well I got ICH9R so I got NCQ

kris23 · Jan 9, 2008, 05:40 PM

an X48 or X38 or maybe an NForce 790i

Judas · Jan 9, 2008, 07:15 PM

"unknown"

**ChaosMinionX** · Jan 9, 2008, 07:46 PM

By default I think NCQ and advanced SATA features are enabled on all newer ICH series.... I could be wrong I will see if I can dig up where I read that.

INSTG8R · Jan 9, 2008, 08:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by temeteus82

If I recall right AHCI mode is on IHC9 and it has NCQ support? Well I got ICH9R so I got NCQ

Nope AHCI has no NCQ(supported but not enabled...) and seeing as I was having issues and had to format, this time around seeing as I have a SATA DVD drive, I was able to trick it to install the "R" drivers, again same deal(supported but not enabled)
In fact having messed about with it, the fastest overall is actually running it in IDE mode and letting it run it usual "fake SATA"

Lowfat · Jan 10, 2008, 02:00 PM

Currently P35. Next board will be either P45 or 780i. Depends on how powerful nex-gen videocards are going to be.

Son_of_Thunder · Jan 10, 2008, 02:36 PM

I just bought a K9A Platinum with the 580X Crossfire chipset.

PangingJr · Jan 10, 2008, 04:10 PM

Which chipset will your next motherboard use?

voted Intel X48.
but still want to try Intel P45 chipset board. otherwise my next motherboard buy would likely be the next Intel chipset family after the Intel X48.

jp306 · Jan 10, 2008, 07:42 PM

I didn't vote, because I don't plan on ditching my Gigabyte P965 DS3 r3.3 anytime soon. I think the chipset that I'll get next is sill unknown or doesn't exist yet. If I had to replace it now, then I'd get a P35 Gigabyte board probably.

Dyre Straits · Jan 11, 2008, 02:49 AM

I actually just picked up a MSI P35 Neo about a month ago. It has been mostly a 'stop gap' purchase after dealing with some RAM issues on the previous board I was using.

But, I've been mostly quite impressed with this board and have even been able to overclock some things a bit more than what was possible with the previous one.

I've used it for a full month now and finally had to activate Vista before the activation period expired.

I was also quite pleased with the price: $89 after mail-in rebate from Micro Center.

CDsDontBurn · Jan 11, 2008, 04:27 AM

i've been leaning towards the p35 myself currently.

if for whatever reason p35 is no longer available or whatever the case may be, i might look into either whatever intel chipset or NVIDIA chipset boards are out at that time.