Originally Posted by bdubslawman

I am not in disagreement about the quality of that motherboard. But I thought that the OP already had the mobo? If that is correct...then I felt dumping on it was un-helpful.
In reading the personal users responses...the board will do 270base clock. We know it does 266Mhz...as it supports that 1066 FSB chips at full speed. But the reviews give it a limit of not much more than that ~270.

Before you call the PSU calculator crap and dismiss it out of hand you really have to look at the many problems that PSu's have had. For example, on anything but the more recent power supplies that (Seasonic, PC Power & cooling and a few others are NOW producing) if there was an imbalance on the split 12Volt rails the systems would not boot or would shut down once the graphics cards gets loaded down. This was/is do to the splitting of the rails which was initially a safety specification & is now being abandoned in favor of a much larger single rail. (The Gamer systems designers at Falcon wrote extensively about this problem in there $3000+ gaming rigs. They over loaded quality power supplies that were not overwhelmed by the total wattage just in how the 12V rails were being parsed out. They activated/split the graphics cards loads using Molex to PCI-power connectors and were fine. Since this among other problems was discovered there has been a redesign of that rail....and others.

This is one of many problems that was initially chocked up to insufficient power supplies Wattage. Which was NOT the case and had to do with how the 12V rail load was being distributed. A work around for many with Nvidia cards 8800 & dual SLI setups was simply to use a molex to pci- power converter to use the other rails.
Since this problem was identified you see the better power supply companies using one large wattage 12 V rail (though many still list on the side of the power supply & in documentation-it as three separate rails...)of more than 30+ Watts, some much higher. The safety concerns of such a high wattage rail have been set-aside.
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The wattage that the OP requires to run the system that he described. With an effecient 65 Watt CPU, a frugal ATI 9550 under 65 Watts fully loaded with work, some drives, memory and the small amount of OC'ing that the board allows
.....Keep in mind that you plan for the worst case scenario. In other words, i've never run a system where my CPU, graphics card, all my hard drives, all my optical drives, 4 sticks of memory, sound card, pci cards up the wah-zoo were being taxed ALL AT THE SAME TIME to 100% utilization. Most of the time while running a system you will not encounter anything near those levels; much less ALL AT ONCE!

BUT in the real world. That doesn't happen unless you intentional are pushing your system for a stress test / stability test. THE OP'S SYSTEM COMES NO WHERE NEAR 350 WATTS. Even fully stressed.

Originally Posted by gen.Rage1991hrv

heh
that power calculator is for shit
i get 520w LOL i cant even start my pc with PSU that have 520W of power LOL

Originally Posted by gen.Rage1991hrv

man please short this things down
you dont need to write whole story of everything
i see that you trust more to reviews than a man who had problems with low budget equipment
smart man once sad to me : i am not that rich, that i can buy cheap stuff (explanation: cheap stuff dose not last long )

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

When someone posts an inquiry and they say their funds are limited, I tend to believe them. I also READ the entire post before reaching for the keyboard to respond.

When the OP first posted the question, it was stated that he was LOOKING at this particular motherboard AND, he added that he was also considering a CPU that would run faster than what the motherboard NATIVELY supported.

...Now, from everything I've read and know, as long as the motherboard is designed to support Core 2 Duo the 1333 MHz CPU should work fine. The REASON the OP asked about this was because the faster CPU is less money. Very simple. So, as long as it would work why not pay less and still get the performance of the higher priced and SLOWER CPU? That's essentially what he'd get.

So, where is this coming from that a 1333 MHz Core 2 Duo CPU won't work in a 1066 MHz motherboard coming from? Is this from personal experience only?

Or, is there actually something anyone can reference to back this up?

My own personal opinion on it is that, if it DOES work for now -- even at the slower clockspeeds -- later on when the OP gets more money and can get a better motherboard, he's already got a better CPU.

Originally Posted by bdubslawman

In Regards to the Cheap mobo's. Some are excellent just have less features. Not knocking cheap mobo's per se. But if you can buy a $129 mobo for $78 vs 60-70+ for a cheap mobo I'd go with the discounted better board???
Re: Reviews: Reviews help back up what I KNOW, have experienced, or believe. Most message boards want people to site their work etc. so they don't just seem to be braggadocios.