any good intel mATX boards ?

[Lestat]

aside from shuttle, which is just way to expensive for my tastes, unless i can find a good used one some where, are there any other MINI ATX boards out there that are known to be really solid boards that actually are really wicked little clockers ?

basically i can get the Aspire Q-XPack case for $80, with 420w psu now how good that psu is i dont know but ill check around. (only 13a on the 12v rail is really going to limit me i think)

but this isnt just a "shuttle" style it accpets standard mATX boards. which i find to be really cool.
It looks bigger than a shuttle but thats fine.

anyone out ther eknow of or ever had the chance to play around with a really good skt 478 board?

basically i have one of the sweet 2.1 Pent D cellies that right now does 3.7+ on air on an ASUS baord. so i want to be able to do that or better. BUT shuttle style air coolings isnt always the best so i may end up fitting together a small water setup for it, im not really sure at this point.

anywho any suggestions for mATX mobo with def. clocking skills in it ?

[savantu]

Asus P5LD2-VM
Abit LP-80

[Lestat]

i am asking about skt 478 intel boards not 775
thanks for tryin though

[Lestat]

well i think maybe ill grab the asus p4p800 micro atx board i think. seems like that has the best overclocking features and i think, i THINK its just the mini version of its big brother.

[Lestat]

hhmm

any thoughts on this fellas.
Jetway PM9MS
its the VIA PM800 and VT8237 chipset

i havent had a via chipset since my 1.2ghz Athlon days

was this chipset any good and any good for overclocking ? via i think has alwasy been touch and go. it was iffy for amd64 but i know nothing about it for Intel

[CPLB]

I'm interested in a good mATX socket 478 board too. Lestat let me know what you find out, I've heard the P4P800-VM is not too good for OCing.

[Lestat]

according to all i have read the P4P800-VM isnt any good unless you flash it to the latest were asus opened up the goodies and now overclocks fine.
all clocking options are there supposedly but you must update.
i have a Pent D cellie and i am scared it wont even boot on there lol
but its hard finding info on these mini atx boards.

[lawrywild]

p4p800-vm with a dothan

[Lestat]

yeah man i saw the adapter on pricewatch for like 56 bucks i was like man i aint gunna tear my laptop apart lol not for this lol
But seriously folks i am moments away from getting this boards and the aspire case but i would truly love to get someones personal experience with this board.

if you know someone who has it please chime in

[CPLB]

If this board truely is the same as a P4P800, will that require vmods to overclock well? That would turn me off this MB a bit.

[CoolioCat]

There are only really the P4P800-VM and the Abit IS-10 still in circulation and worth considering. I know the IS-10 has no options for overclocking until you flash it with bios Kunaak (member of this here forum as i recall) made for it. You can grab it from a website here

In regards to P4P VM and the and dothan...information is contained in a thread just above this one... titled Dothan @ CT-479 link

Scroll on down the first post and the info is there.

There is also the Gigabyte 8IG1000MK-P4865G ... but I recall the 'secret' menu (accessed via CTRL+F1 in the bios) only allowed a 33FSB increase above whatever default FSB your cpu ran at.

My distributors don't tend to stock more than 3-4 S478 boards now... so I imagine finding one will be difficult, even in the US of A

[yeba]

I just got the IS-10 ver 2 motherboard. I modified bios 20 using modbin 6 to enable the abit engineering page that has the overclocking features. I still dont see the overclocking options, but I see the other options I enabled.

Am I missing something? Or did Abit physically remove the oc options in higher revisions?

Anyone else with experience with IS-10? Thanks