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- Aug 11, 2008
I'm about to jump ship from AMD to Intel for the first time. My computer serves me as my Entertainment center as well as computer. In other words it's my TV, Stereo ect. I used to game like crazy but now it's not that important to me so X--Fire/SLI isn't essential. I currently use a X-Mystique Gold 7.1 sound card optical out to an Onkyo TX-SR503 and it serves me just fine. I've decided on the Q6600 for my sweet spot proc. Now I need to choose a motherboard and memory. I noticed that some of the high end mobo's have optical outs and I'm curious if they would be as good as or surpass my current soundcard. Naturally I'd like to OC but I'm not going to push it like crazy I want a stable and fast computer I'm npot interested in setting any records. I enjoy photography and will use the computer for photoshop, I also encode music/video. I'm not even sure why I'm upgrading except that I like to multitask and my current build chokes every now and again.
The last time I built a box I went whole hog crazy spent a mint and never overclocked the thing anyways. I'd like to be moderate and smart this time and use as much of my old machine as I can. So, P35? 45? X 38/48?
DFI? Asus? I'd really appreciate some input. I've always had good experiences with Asus My DFI while being a good board overall is really touchy and won't even post if you don't use particular memory, I'd prefer my next board to be more forgiving.. Thanks in advance, Mike
P.S. Not sure why my cuild isn't showing up as a sig. so here it is:
AMD X2 4400+, DFI NF4Lanparty SLI-DR, 2GB OCZ Platinum DDR400, EVGA 7800GTX KO, X-Mystique 7.1 Gold, Samsung 203N Burner, Lite On SHOC 5236V. Seagate 500GB HD501LJ, Maxtor 300GB7L300SO.
Lian Li PC60 Case. My Fancy OCZ PSU Died Now Running a 500Watter from Radioshack.
The last time I built a box I went whole hog crazy spent a mint and never overclocked the thing anyways. I'd like to be moderate and smart this time and use as much of my old machine as I can. So, P35? 45? X 38/48?
DFI? Asus? I'd really appreciate some input. I've always had good experiences with Asus My DFI while being a good board overall is really touchy and won't even post if you don't use particular memory, I'd prefer my next board to be more forgiving.. Thanks in advance, Mike
P.S. Not sure why my cuild isn't showing up as a sig. so here it is:
AMD X2 4400+, DFI NF4Lanparty SLI-DR, 2GB OCZ Platinum DDR400, EVGA 7800GTX KO, X-Mystique 7.1 Gold, Samsung 203N Burner, Lite On SHOC 5236V. Seagate 500GB HD501LJ, Maxtor 300GB7L300SO.
Lian Li PC60 Case. My Fancy OCZ PSU Died Now Running a 500Watter from Radioshack.
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