Help me find a Mobo for my Xeon X5460 + Overclocking tips

[Volcan300]

I'll start saying that my english is quite bad, but anyway.

Hi guys, I usually know my way around PC hardware in general to solve my problems, but now i'm kinda confused by something, and cant really find a Mobo for my needs, so I came here asking if you could help with the following:

- Suggest me a LGA 775 DDR3 Mobo for my modded X5460 (The legendary budget CPU)
- I'm confused about FSB at the moment, why does the CPU and the Mobo have FSB clocks? If the CPU FSB is higher, it won't work? What if they are the same? The processor can't overclock? 

So, i'm quite lost trying to take a decision. I'm "upgrading" my PC and I'll leave my current build down below:  (Remember, this is a budget build)

- 430W C3 Tech (It's actually good)
- G31T-M7 7.0  (DDR2 LGA 775)
- Xeon X5460 3,16Ghz (I pretend to overclock it on a new Motherboard)
- Galax GTX 1060 3Gb
- 1x 2Gb DDR2 RAM / 1x 1Gb DDR2 RAM (Here's my the reason to change Mobo, can't find 4Gb sticks for Intel systems, só i thought it would be a good ideia to "upgrade" to DDR3, since RAM capacity is starting to be a problem)

If you read all this way, i'm already thankfull for your attention. C:

[oskarha]

You might want to give this a read to wrap your head around LGA 775 overclocking:

 

[Simon771]

Isn't that CPU for 771 motehrboard and not 775?

[Volcan300]

3 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

Isn't that CPU for 771 motehrboard and not 775?

It's a LGA 775 Modified CPU c:

[Simon771]

4 minutes ago, Volcan300 said:

It's a LGA 775 Modified CPU c:

Didn't know, you can do that.

Looks interesting.

[Lock It]

Thats a pretty old plataform, I mean what do you use your computer for, mostly? I really cant help you as I dont know alot about that socket or that CPU, still if you need anyhting be sure to ask.

 

EDIT: About that FSB (frontside-bus), well it links the memory of the chipset to the CPU multiplier,( the bigger the FSB the bigger the clock speed), It should work as it  is proportional to the speed.

[Volcan300]

2 minutes ago, Lock It said:

Thats a pretty old plataform, I mean what do you use your computer for, mostly? I really cant help you as I dont know alot about that socket or that CPU, still if you need anyhting be sure to ask.

I'm aware that's a old plataform, but it quite cheap for the performance, since my budget is low. This build is for gaming, and it's quite strong, running most games on High~Ultra 1080p. The problem i need to overcome now, is RAM capacity, so that's why i'm looking for a new DDR3 Mobo.  C:

[Lock It]

3 minutes ago, Volcan300 said:

I'm aware that's a old plataform, but it quite cheap for the performance, since my budget is low. This build is for gaming, and it's quite strong, running most games on High~Ultra 1080p. The problem i need to overcome now, is RAM capacity, so that's why i'm looking for a new DDR3 Mobo.  C:

If you dont mind me asking whats your budget atm?

 

[Volcan300]

1 minute ago, Lock It said:

If you dont mind me asking whats your budget atm?

 

200~300U$

[Lock It]

Just now, Volcan300 said:

200~300U$

you already have a PSU, and a GPU right?

 

[Volcan300]

Just now, Lock It said:

you already have a PSU, and a GPU right?

 

Yep, a GTX1060.

[Lock It]

This is my best advice, ryzen 3 will be coming out very soo with very affordable prices+very cheap, If I was you I would wait a bit more you could snatch one of those for 140 I think so, then get 8 gbs ddr4 for 50 and getting a 80 mobo, total of 270 dollars. Thats really my best advice! (it would run everything 1080p high-ultra).

 

Edit: you can also squeeze more 30 dollars and get yourselfe a R5 1400 is a great option for you! I Just dont see a point going over a platform that will lost it compatibility, and ddr3 is much much slower than ddr4. Plus the Am4 chipset Will have lots of upgradability towards the future.

 

 

[Lock It]

19 minutes ago, Lock It said:

This is my best advice, ryzen 3 will be coming out very soo with very affordable prices+very cheap, If I was you I would wait a bit more you could snatch one of those for 140 I think so, then get 8 gbs ddr4 for 50 and getting a 80 mobo, total of 270 dollars. Thats really my best advice! (it would run everything 1080p high-ultra).

 

Edit: you can also squeeze more 30 dollars and get yourselfe a R5 1400 is a great option for you! I Just dont see a point going over a platform that will lost it compatibility, and ddr3 is much much slower than ddr4. Plus the Am4 chipset Will have lots of upgradability towards the future.

 

Edit 2 : I didnt recomend intel cause they are more pricie, and cause LGA 1151 will die after the release of coffe lake, while AMD is brand new architecture etc.