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Trying to pin down a board

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Gig-O-Ram

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Ok, I have all the stuff picked for the next build I'm doing, but I'm iffy on one of my final choices for a board, being this one:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813121049

I'm going LGA775, 2x 1GB DDR2667, at least 1x PCI-ex16 and probably the Core 2 Duo EE6400 Conroe(unless prices change later and I could get EE6600), but anyway...I'm having trouble pinning down the board. I've been checking Newegg because I can check the reviews on boards - even though I know I shouldn't let those make my choice. But in looking at the reviews, I'm seeing a lot of complaints about boards not posting with certain RAM, or that they are DOA, or weak BIOSes and other stuff that makes me wonder if these boards are really any good. I've looked at ASUS, BioStar, Abit, DFI, AsRock, AOpen...

This is the memory I want to get:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820220095

These are other boards I'm looking at:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813128017
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131032
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813135026
 
LOL if your ocing the only choice in your list is the gigabyte 965p-s3... brand new boards are never DOA, they dont know that c2d read means upgrade the bios first. alot of first run mobos in the market using the first bios so they wont boot up with c2d in it. good chioce on the ram, i might replace my c4's with it....
 
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