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dennykyser

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I have built a few pc's now but have to build another and its important for me for the front jacks to work, (usb, audio etc) this seems to always be a pain for me.

I am looking for sugestions on a MB for a Pentium D Processor that will hook up easy to a coolermaster case. I guess I dont have to have a coolermaster case, but they seem to be great cases for me. I want a clear window in one side, what ever case I get.

This will be a workhorse not a gaming pc.

Any sugestions, or do I just go with Intel again?
 
Now you're talking up my alley when you say "workhorse". Lately I've seen a few boards and case setups have to leave the front usb and audio jacks behind. The main problem there was seeing the shorter then needed thin wire harness coming from the front of the case and trying to stretch to the opposite side of the board due to it's own arrangement. One tip is to look over the board's diagram in a PDF file at the support site to see how it is layed out. The other is having a harness that will reach far enough. Some cases seen are a little skimpy there.
 
My idea of a work horse on the next build will see an AMD Opteron cpu not an Intel for stability with larger loads. Generally the server type cpu is made more for durability since server cases usually run 24/7 over a gamer's favored cpu running for only a number of hours during a day's time. AMD also sees much favorable reviews for performance over Intel while Intel models show a higher speed listed on their cpu line. Intel is trying to fight that by introducing a new dual cored cpu later this month.
 
the ecs c19a sli is a pretty good board, more for gaming probably but i just used it for a pentium d 930 build and it worked great, plenty of room for pci cards and such, also holds 16gigs of ram which is nice.
 
For the most there 16gbs of ram would be way overboard due to the lack of need for that among average users even gamers. The time for large capacity like that is when you get into CAD and other type of engineering, development, and essentially large programs dealing with large mathematical equations that often calculate things on a large scale. Graphics engineers along with animators would also use the capacity even for game development. For the advanced gamer even 2-3gb generally works out ok. Eventually they will have to develope 4-8-16gb memory modules(may not be called dimms at the time) for increasing ram with fewer slots needed. DDR already did that over SDram and the old PC133.
 
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