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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 07:50 PM
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What mainboard are you going to go with? I have always been partial to Asus.

The 775 is still being produced, and they're quad core ready. Asus P5 Professional Series are all 775...

Either the P5W64-WS Professional
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Intel® Quad-core CPU Ready
Intel Core™2 Extreme / Core™2 Duo Ready
Quad-core CPU Ready
DDR2 800/667/533
FSB 1066/800/533
Quad PCI-E x 16 slots

or the P5WDG2 WS Professional
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Intel Core™2 Extreme / Core™2 Duo Ready
Dual-core CPU Ready
DDR2 800/667/533
FSB 1066/800/533
Dual PCI-E x 16 Graphics
PCI-X Architecture

Sorry guys, I'm a Professional Geek.
 
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Old Feb 27, 2008 | 08:43 AM
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Those boards have old chipsets. You have to have the latest version for it to even support my E6750 processor.

I went with the Asus P5N-D

- Intel® Core™2 Quad / Core™2 Extreme / Core™2 Duo / Pentium® Extreme / Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 Processors
- NVIDIA® 750i SLI chipset
- DDR2 800/667/533
- FSB 1333/1066/800/533
- ASUS EPU (Energy Processing Unit)
- ASUS Precision Tweaker 2
- Support PCIe2.0 Dual x16 SLI
- ASUS Q-Shield
 
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Old Feb 27, 2008 | 09:22 AM
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Thats a pretty slick mobo, how much it set ya back?
 
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Old Feb 27, 2008 | 06:03 PM
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$176 from OTVTech and it was the pretty much the only affordable Nvidia SLI board.
 
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Old Feb 27, 2008 | 08:30 PM
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176 doesnt seem bad but i dont know computer parts values
 
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 07:58 AM
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Yeah thats a good deal. I bought my stuff from those guys too, they seemed ok to deal with.
 
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 12:49 PM
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Last night my computer gave me the fits, it was connected to the internet but not able to bring any sites up.....
 
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 01:12 PM
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Thats weird. I have that problem at hotels, and most of the time the problem for me is the hotel internet.
 
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 01:15 PM
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Don`t know what the problem was, very flustrating to say the least.....
 
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 01:17 PM
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Do you ever do any file cleaning up and stuff like that? I find that if a person maintains, and updates fairly regularily that usually minimizes any problems.
 
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I clean files/cookies/history, etc almost daily, it does speed up the computer and prevents freezing, other problems!
 
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 01:35 PM
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Yeah thats the main maintenence that should be done. How about updates?
 
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Most of my spy ware, AVG etc programs are on auto up date.
 
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What about your windows updates? It never hurts to keep them up to date. There might be an update that will prevent some problems.
 
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My Windows up dates are set for automatic....Less I have to remember to update the better....
 
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