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- Jan 9, 2006
Tax time is approaching and I'm itching to upgrade with my gub'ment check. I want to build a quality system that will let me max out an E6400. Before everyone says get a P5-b deluxe and micron d9's, know that I'm hoping to avoid buying a sound card so I'd love decent onboard sound without driver issues. I also need high clocking ram(duh) for as little as possible. I saw another post with a link for $225 Gskill ddr800 but I'm not sure it'll go past 400fsb which as most of you know puts me at 3200mhz. I've seen people say 3400-3600+mhz is possible with E6400 but if I have to spend $75 more on ram it conflicts with the whole budget concept. I may go for the new $150 ASUS P5N-E 650i Nvidia board if nobody can think of a reason not to so that leaves me with the question of which ram to get. Do I really need d9's or is there a budget set that will get me there? If I have to spend 75 more bucks I'm thinking I may as well get cheaper ram and spend the extra money on an E6600 for the cache. Thoughts?