Evening chaps, tonight I find myself stuck, swamped, literally drowning!

Motherboards have always been my weakspot, I get completely lost in the sea of difficult numbers and names they give them.
I then begin to weep and to stop the tears streaming down my face I click BUY on any old piece of ship.

Mass Fail...

One board I've been oggling is an Asus P5ND2-SLI motherboard, but hold on a second! Discontinued...

I then spend hours typing into google every kind of way to phrase "successor to the P5ND2-SLI" and get sod all.

So I find myself on here, on my knee's and begging for a saviour!

There are a few specifics I have and they are:

• 775 Socket
  
• Capable of holding 3200 RAM
  
• Must be able to overclock (unlike my monkey of a motherboard atm)
  
• Must be able to take a SATA drive, and 2 IDE's
  
• Must have a PCI-e slot, and/or AGP because my current "XFX6800 xtreme" isn't particularly fantastic (been castrated physically so no unlocking for me!) And i'm looking at purchasing the "X1950Pro" (512mb version).

Also i'm on XP my processor is a Pentium D 805 (it's feeling unloved and under utilized), and my current motherboard is an ABIT SG-80DC

You want a 775 CPU, but will be running an old hot outdated CPU, old, outdated DDR RAM and PCI-e AND AGP - your scraping the budget barrel.

You will NOT get overclocking to any decent degree.

I understood he wants to get a new mobo for all the stuff he has in the old system. So that's why he wants to put an old cpu, mem etc there? Is there something wrong with the mobo (broken)? If not, it would be a good idea to get rid most of it and buy a new cpu, mem and gfx card at least. There are not that many mobos with both agp and pci-e so you would have to know which one your card has. Those parts would make a good 2nd PC (for surfing, writing docs, less demanding games etc, but to play new games it won't be that great)

"XFX6800 xtreme isn't particularly fantastic (been castrated physically so no unlocking for me!)"

What???

(i think) what he means is, his current mobo wont allow him to overclock his CPU, so he would like a board that wil hat he can transfer his pc onto. and he would like the X1950pro but it may not be bought the same time as the mobo (but soon after) so is there any mobo that would have agp and pci-e. (which i guess is a no) so a pci-e slot mobo would be more important.

On a side note: brad, can i have your old mobo and graphics card when youre done got a pentium 775 cpu needing a mobo, and u know how crap my graphics card is lol.

Quote from robt :

there any mobo that would have agp and pci-e. (which i guess is a no)

There's a couple out there that do this.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ ... 1&catid=5&subcat=

This ticks all the boxes, except that takes DDR2. However DDR2 (especially 533MHz DDR2) is dirt cheap these days and the mobo itself is pretty cheap anyway. Getting this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ ... mp;catid=8&subcat=697 would still make the entire thing cheaper than a lot of other motherboards on their own.

UMMMMMM!!!!! the asus p5nd2-sli has overclocking options in the bios. dude you have all the overclocking options you need in the bios
http://www.hothardware.com/art ... SLI_Intel_Edition/?page=3
why dont you just use this board and you will be fine. it uses pci-e by the way.

take a look at this:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f ... ;highlight=asus+p5nd2-sli
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f ... ;highlight=asus+p5nd2-sli

http://forums.extremeoverclock ... ;highlight=asus+p5nd2-sli
this last one has a guide to overclock your pd 805 lots of people have the same motherboard and cpu as you and it overclocks just fine. just do some reading and you will be overclocked in no time. you DO NOT NEED A NEW COMPUTER unless you want and have the money to do so. overclocking it will help some. just read thats the info i can give you.

No no no........ My current motherboard is an ABIT SG-80DC.

And I was looking at buying the Asus P5ND2-SLI, but it has been discontinued, i.e...... no longer exists.
So now my attention has turned to a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3.

yes not a bad board. it will work great for you.

Quote from MR_B :

So now my attention has turned to a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3.

Not bad, but you do know that it's PCI-e and has DDR2, right?

wuts wrong with ddr2 and pci-e slot. ddr3 is to much money and do you know a better slot than pci-e slot. lol you make it sound like its so old. lol

Quote from natedog420 :

wuts wrong with ddr2 and pci-e slot. ddr3 is to much money and do you know a better slot than pci-e slot. lol you make it sound like its so old. lol

Nothing. He means that it's not DDR1 and AGP, which is was he was looking for before.

here we go agan, im MR_B's personal translator. if its that much "better" to go to DDR2 and PCI-e then he will, but what would be best bang for buck so to speak. (if u have no DDR2 brad, its not much, and i got a spare 512 stick if you need it ) he was looking at upgrading his GPU anyway so a pci-e board isnt a problem.