Hello zaske, Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 12:13:56 AM, you wrote:
> SLI is pointless to consider unless you have money to burn (better to > get a Roth IRA IMHO). A 550 watt PSU with greater than 80% efficiency > would do just fine for what you want. Apparently my fellow listers > haven't been reading too much about P35 and DDR2/DDR3 support. P35 is an > excellent chipset but only slightly superior in performance to 965 with > current DDR3 sticks. Second, the pin count between DDR2 and DDR3 while > being exactly the same have a different notch. Therefore, you either buy > a mobo that takes DDR2 memory knowing that you can never upgrade it in > the future to DDR3 or you buy a DDR3 mobo knowing that you can't use > DDR2 and will pay a serious price penalty for it. Finally, it seems that > Kingston and not Crucial makes the fastest DDR3 memory @ the present > time. Dude, P35 will not give you any future proofing unless you bite > the bullet and get a mobo with DDR3 memory slots. So, how much money you > can afford to spend is the most relevant question @ this point. Oh yeah, > most reviews have Gigabyte mobo's rated best for Intel CPU's. Yeah, this is agreed on SLI. I would only upgrade the video on a system anyway, so I have no real future proofing needs. Having said that, I usually just build a new system (like now) and be done with it. Take old system and use for something else. Gigabyte gets two votes - I would say three as I know Wayne likes them. Ok so, 965 with DDR3 would be as fast as (basically) P35 with DDR2 but DDR3 would be a penalty. What are ya tellin me here? I am confused. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
