What motherboard should I use?

Gigabyte GA EP45 DS4

Advantages: all-solid-state capacitors, the workmanship of the board is also very eye-catching. Heat pipe. Sixth-gear acceleration. Dual Gigabit LAN cards. There should be no problem with the quality of the first line.

It would be perfect if you could change the graphics card slot to a DDR3 slot.

Cons: No DDR3 slot. The room for upgrades is a little worse.

The value for money was not perfect.

ASUS P5Q advantages: 8 CPU power supply, ICH10R south bridge, 8 SATA ports, 1394, audio interface, EPU, etc.

Although this board is the lowest-end P45 product of ASUS, there are a lot of several features of ASUS, the overclocking performance is good, it can automatically adjust the voltage, my E8300 (CO step) can run stably at 500*, memory overclocking is also beautiful, my two Apacer 2GB DDR2 800 (classic series) under the volt voltage, actually exceeded DDR2 1066, who said that the 2G 800 strip can't be on the 1066???

With the function of automatic recovery of CPU parameters, the default settings of the BIOS can be restored as long as the overclocking fails and the reboot is off, and there is no need to discharge the jumper.

With the function of automatic memory optimization settings, it can optimize memory performance to a certain extent without overclocking, changing parameters, and without adding voltage Disadvantages: The width of this board is too small (only centimeters) directly leads to several problems:

1. The motherboard has only 6 screws fixed on the chassis (8-9 for ordinary large boards), so don't make much effort when inserting memory.

The pin power connector is at the upper end of the motherboard (near the I-O port), which is located in the middle of the graphics card and the CPU fan, so the thickest power cord is not easy to walk and is very unpleasant (especially when using a large CPU fan).

3. The north bridge heat sink is too close to one of the yellow memory slots, if you want to build a dual channel, it is recommended to insert 2 black slots, otherwise one of the memory will be baked hot by the north bridge heat sink.

Gigabyte is a little better.

If I'm not mistaken, the motherboard itself has power-saving technology, which will save a lot of electricity bills for long-term use.

And the quality of Gigabyte will only be better than that of Asus.

ASUS P5Q 1065

Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L 949

Since you are so willing to spend money to buy a good motherboard, why do you have a low-end entry-level graphics card with a 9500? This will only drag down the CPU, personally recommend buying a P43 board Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L 699 to save money to buy a 9600GT or above graphics card.

Both motherboards are good, and I personally think the P5Q is pretty good! The workmanship is good, and it is produced by a first-line factory.

ASUS's stability performance is a little better, and I personally recommend ASUS's.