Motherboard questionFollow

My apologies if this is too technical for these forums or whatever, but i'm getting rather frustrated. Any help someone could offer would be invaluable.

What I need is some advice on a good Socket 775 motherboard. I already bought ddr 400 ram. The problem is that all the good motherboards seem to use ddr2 and I spent a good sum on 2 gigs of ocz ddr.

So enough rambling, I need a good mobo with at least one pci-e x16 slot that uses 184 pin ddr.

I plan on using this mainly for gaming. Got a 7800 gt and some good overclocking ram, also got a p4 660.

Thanks in advance for any help. My mind is a bit fuzzled after days of searching for something good and coming up with somewhat limited results.

By the way, if they exist, a 775 mobo that takes ddr 400 and has 2 pci-e x16 would be ideal. So far from my searching, only mobo's that have ddr2 have the two pci-e x16.



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I think you'll be hard pressed to find one.

The only reason to have two pci-e x16 slots is for running two nvidia cards in sli, which is only found on newer boards and something that would be bottlenecked by slower RAM.

It should be easy to find a socket 775 with one pci-e x16 and two DDR slots on newegg.com. Or you could return/exchange the RAM you have.

The intel 915 chipset can take either DDR or DDR2, you might want to try to find one of those. They all come with PCI-Ex slots.

And yes, your chances of finding an SLI mainboard with DDR1 compatability are next to none.

Edited, Wed Mar 15 22:48:14 2006 by blowfin