Looking for a cheap 775 mobo ?

[Rastalovich]

Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L

I've bought 2 of these so far this year. They're a solid build and surprisingly full of features for such an extremely budget purchase.

Aria's selling them for ~ £34, and you can catch them at many places for around the same. Most popular places infact. (I think NewEgg sell them also)

If you've been benching loads of stuff and have 775 cpus laying around the place, this mobo is ideal to create a rig. Use it for folding or a media center or whatever.

It's not going to break oc'ing barrier, but after installing the last one last night, with 3 or 4 changes to the bios, an E7400 is now running @ 3.4ghz. Could push it, but it's going to be a Mac so there's no need.

Good stuff.

 

[sheroo]

Do you think one of these would make a good little server? For say uTorrent, Meta Browser? And possibly email. I want something to sip power as it'll run 24/7. Just 1 small ssd and run xp pro.

 

[Rastalovich]

Use it for folding or a media center or whatever.

I think that would come under the title of "whatever".

It really could build someone a blisteringly cheap gaming pc, with 80% of the cash going on the best graphics card, it could game better than one costing thousands in components.*

*depending on who builds it obviously.