Looking for new 775 MB

[Cmptr-Gy-Dv]

OK I have an Asus P5K-E/Wifi-AP running a Q6600 and 4 gigs of 1066 memory, using vista ultimate 64bit,

it sucks, it keeps shutting down processes and restarting them, no BSODS
vista says P35 chipset not working well with Vista, I have all the latest drivers installed, starting to irritate me, maybe time for new board better suited for Vista,

so heres the deal, I need a new MB with these specs,

6 SATA 3.0 ports
Raid 0\1\5
socket 775 Q6600
memory DDR2-1066 standard (not OC'ed)
works well with Vista 64BIT os,

please not anything with the P35 chipset,

any price, although $200 would be good,

if anybody using Vista 64Bit knows a good board please let me know,

thanks,

[KarmaKiller]

You don't need to spend $200 for a board to do what you want it to do..
Any of these would work fine.
Newegg.com - MSI P45 Neo3-FR LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-EP45C-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

If your wanting a high end board, I would suggest;
Newegg.com - ASUS P5E Deluxe LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

Newegg.com - DFI LP DK X48-T2RSB PLUS LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

If you want a Nvidia board so you can add another GPU later:
Newegg.com - EVGA 123-YW-E175-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i FTW SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards
or
Newegg.com - EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

[washe]

NVM...

I was going to suggest a P35, Im using but lacks Raid, its working pretty well under vista 64

[Cmptr-Gy-Dv]

Originally Posted by washe

NVM...

I was going to suggest a P35, Im using but lacks Raid, its working pretty well under vista 64

what P35 chipset are you using?

vista never says such an such has stopped working and needs to shut down,

[Cmptr-Gy-Dv]

I have a spare sata drive, and vista 32bit i'm thinking of installing the 32bit see if it works better than the 64bit does,

problem is it's activated on another computer so it will only run for three days and I don't know if it will install SP1 without being activated, XP sure is better having 30 days to activate,

[KarmaKiller]

I can confirm that Vista 32 works on a P35. It does my dually system with no issues.

[Cmptr-Gy-Dv]

you know I really don't see much of a difference between 32 and 64 bit as far as speed goes, other than 64 being able to use more memory, I think I will load the 32 bit see what happens

[Steve R Jones]

There isn't a difference in speed unless you're running hard to find 64bit applications

[pullmyfoot]

you can just use a friend's 64 bit version with your CD key if you need to. It will work

[Cmptr-Gy-Dv]

Originally Posted by pullmyfoot

you can just use a friend's 64 bit version with your CD key if you need to. It will work

I have my own copy of ultimate, thats whats running now, I built my sister a computer with vista home premium, thats the 32 bit version I have,

I have the home disk with the key,

I can't install it right now anyway, I also built a computer for the girlfriend and took the floppy drive and my DVD rom out of here to use in her box, I figured I would just get new ones later, I still have my DVD burner in here,

now the problem is even when I shut the sata raid off it still needs sata drivers or it don't see the drive, now vista will look for drivers on any drive,
but asus only made a program called make disk to put sata drivers on a floppy drive only, that also seems rather stupid to me, why not let the drivers be put on any drive, so vista can look at any drive,