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- Aug 23, 2007
I'm seriously thinking about getting Intel's new extreme motherboard the DP45SG as I have the D975XBX2 right now and I have been very happy with it.
Anyone know of the actual release date for this board?
Anyone seen any reviews of it?
It says it's got 6 sata ports but only 5 of them are on the Raid controler so the most I can do is a 5 drive raid 0 (was hoping for 6 drive but oh well, I'm running a 4 drive raid 0 right now). That 6th one is an eSata on a Marvel controller.
With the prices of RAM, DDR3 is dropping pretty fast for 1333mhz which is the top end for this board and I don't see the point of going 1600 for my gaming needs, plus I'll be bottle necked due to my Q6600 until I upgrade that later. I'm running XP64 and will only go to Vista 64 if WarHammer Online has a true need for DX10.1 but other than that I don't want to touch vista w/ a 10 foot pole.
What ever processor I eventually put in it, will be air cooled as it will be in my fairly cool basement w/ the Antec 1200 case I have.
So w/ all this, Anyone have any thoughts on the DP45SG Motherboard? (BOXDP45SG)
Thanks in advance
Anyone know of the actual release date for this board?
Anyone seen any reviews of it?
It says it's got 6 sata ports but only 5 of them are on the Raid controler so the most I can do is a 5 drive raid 0 (was hoping for 6 drive but oh well, I'm running a 4 drive raid 0 right now). That 6th one is an eSata on a Marvel controller.
With the prices of RAM, DDR3 is dropping pretty fast for 1333mhz which is the top end for this board and I don't see the point of going 1600 for my gaming needs, plus I'll be bottle necked due to my Q6600 until I upgrade that later. I'm running XP64 and will only go to Vista 64 if WarHammer Online has a true need for DX10.1 but other than that I don't want to touch vista w/ a 10 foot pole.
What ever processor I eventually put in it, will be air cooled as it will be in my fairly cool basement w/ the Antec 1200 case I have.
So w/ all this, Anyone have any thoughts on the DP45SG Motherboard? (BOXDP45SG)
Thanks in advance