I'm definitely gonna get a gt

What motherboards do you guys have/reccomend.

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Originally posted by steviewondersbr:
What motherboards do you guys have/reccomend.

Specify brand of your 2.0 cpu if thats staying the same.

Ive always had Abit/Fatal1ty, never let me down, ive had both there top of the line, and middle of the road boards, both worked great, ive also heard good things from Evga.

I'm getting a quad core but my current is intel pentium 4. But I have to get a new motherboard hen I get the quad. I was thinking a evga 780i

Abit is very good. My backup is
Abit AW9D-MAX (Intel i975-ICH7)
Bios version # 7.3.13
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU e6600 @ 2.40GHz

And my new is...

Gigabyte P35 DS3L(1st Gigabyte MB-great so far)
Q6600 3.4Ghz Go Stepping

If you want a Abit then you might consider this one...
ABIT IP35 Pro LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard. Though I don't have any 1st hand knowledge....but Abit does make good boards.

I also heard that diamond makes some pretty crazy motherboards.

don't you just mean MSI, because i've never heard of Diamond?

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Originally posted by scarminckel:
don't you just mean MSI, because i've never heard of Diamond?

Diamond is Diamond Flower Integration or you may have heard of them as DFI.

2-3 years ago they were the dogs danglies for the Athlon 64 and x2s, very high end enthusiasts boards ripe for overclocking. For a period no other manufacturer could get near them.

I have a DFI LAN Party NF4 SLI DR for my AMD4000. Its a tremendous board for its generation, but not for the novice.

They didnt do so well with the first generation of intel boards after that though and I havent had kept pace with their current products.

Need to do some research myself, gotta nest egg burning a hole in my pocket, but I am going to at least wait till ATIs next GPU release and see how NVIDIA respond (they have effectively sat on their laurels since the 8800 came out, with ATI unable to beat it so far.

Just ordered a evga 780i motherboard and 2.66ghz intel quad core prossecer

Asus makes the best motherboards.
i hv the Asus Maximus Formula
its an X38 chipset & i hv a q6600 @ 2.66 mhz with 4 gb of corsair 800 mhz RAM , an Evga 8800gt SC 512mb.
it will easily run farcry 2

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Originally posted by lonelymanav:
Asus makes the best motherboards.
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But have **** support. Users of the P5K series of motherboards are still waiting for a BIOS fix so they can run their PC2-8500 DDR2 RAM on ASUS motherboards that claim support for them....but dont!

Asus may make the best but evga offers a life time warrenty

Well ive been thinking, and thats not good, lol, ive been debating, I just got a hold of some extra money, I already have a decent proc, AMD X2 5600 @3.0 (=E6600 C2D) but have been thinking of getting a new mobo to support a new Q6600 cpu, would only cost me around 300 or so dollars, just wondering if it would be worth it or if my current cpu could get the job done for at least another year or two. Thoughts?

[/QUOTE]On a side note, I hope my 5600 X2 doesnt hold me back with this game, I got it OC'd to 3.0, around the same performance as a E6600 C2D, we shall see. I know they've touted quad core support, hope its not that much of a handicap if you dont have one.[/QUOTE]

dude... that's not a bad CPU, infact if you get some decent cooling on it you can probably clock it a little higher - mine's at 3.1 - 14x multiplier, FSB 218, cpu voltage 1.55V, running at about 35 degrees idle with a coolermaster gemini II heatsink (f*ck*ng huge thing) and 2 Arctic cooling 120mm silent fans @ 3300 rpm (on the heatsink)
The CPU is equivalent to a P4 running at a ludicrous 8.6Ghz!!! :-O
Don't believe me? get yourself to system requirements lab @ http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest
Run a test and check it out.

whats the difference between sata ata and pata?

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Originally posted by MeloniesHomeboy:
Well ive been thinking, and thats not good, lol, ive been debating, I just got a hold of some extra money, I already have a decent proc, AMD X2 5600 @3.0 (=E6600 C2D) but have been thinking of getting a new mobo to support a new Q6600 cpu, would only cost me around 300 or so dollars, just wondering if it would be worth it or if my current cpu could get the job done for at least another year or two. Thoughts?

In that interview in other thread(buttonbandits interview) the dude from far cry 2 said something like "the quad core will be out for a while than so we expect some gamers to have them"(that's in my own words ) so i guess the Q6600 will be a good idea

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Originally posted by steviewondersbr:
whats the difference between sata ata and pata?

Sata is better but this article can explain it better than I can'

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BRZ/is_11_22/ai_98977132

Well I got a friend that wants to buy my X2 5600 and mobo, brings my quad core (Q6600 and Gigabyte mobo) purchase to about 160 bucks, srsly thinking about it now.

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Originally posted by MeloniesHomeboy:
Well I got a friend that wants to buy my X2 5600 and mobo, brings my quad core (Q6600 and Gigabyte mobo) purchase to about 160 bucks, srsly thinking about it now.

i'm planning a whole new pc but got to sell this pc first (but no one is interested )

specs will be something like
Motherboard: 750I
Graphics card: 2X8800 GT(S) in SLI)->same performance as a gx2
CPU: Q6600
3GB ram
320GB hard drive

(if i don't count the gt(s) s(and wait for price drops) and if this 520watt is good enough for sli wich i doubt
i come to 600/700Euro (wich is kind of cheap...)