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Midnight
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09 January 2008 16:41
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Having sold my pc bits it's time for me to hit the upgrades as well Here's what I've put together based on the other threads of similar questions: Motherboard : Asus P5K Pro Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 linkyCPU : Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM linkyGfx : BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail linkyRAM : 2 x GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit linkyFan : Thermaltake BigTyp 120 VX CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA755) linky reviews are good for this as can be seen hereI'll also get some Arctic Silver 5 Compound obviously. Is there anythere there I should change ? I'm not sure about the mobo / RAM but I want 4gb as i'll be running vista 64 again. Should I go for a sli mobo ? I'm running 2 x widescreen monitors at 1680x1050 on each so... Any final suggestions or comments before I go ahead and order tomorrow ?
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Mani
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09 January 2008 16:55
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Don't go SLI as you have two monitors, last time I saw it in action you could only use 1 (Might have changed)
I'd be tempted to get an nVidia motherboard too if you want to use DDR2
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09 January 2008 16:58
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Dont buy an asus mobo!!! 
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Midnight
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09 January 2008 17:25
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Any suggestion on a particular one Craig ? Is that the only thing I should change too ?
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Mani
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09 January 2008 17:35
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The ram is fine.
Your board is probably ok too I just personally prefer nVidia mobo's.
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Midnight
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09 January 2008 19:33
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ok  Well i've had this Asus i'm using now for a while and it's been fine so I think i'll go with that setup then. Cheers.
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shagnastie
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09 January 2008 20:28
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quite simillar to my lovely rig
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09 January 2008 20:34
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How much does all that come to? Cba to add it all up
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Midnight
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09 January 2008 20:59
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comes to about 580 + delivery
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10 January 2008 07:35
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Midnight, I have the P5k Mobo and it's great. Overclocking is super easy. Dunno what craigs going on about with the DDR2 issue. I'm running 2 sticks of 2Gig DDR2 and had no issues at all.
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10 January 2008 07:37
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Oh and get 2 sticks of 2 Gig rather than 4 x 1 gigs, might have overclocking issues with 4 sticks.
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Midnight
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10 January 2008 17:17
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Just ordered, should be here tomorro 
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11 January 2008 14:17
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a new pc in every gameSlave house it seems
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