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JoeTom93

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Hi can anyone recommend a motherboard. I would like one with a video card in it. The video card does not have to be good. I won't be playing games on it and won't be over-clocking it. I've will be getting an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300, 1gb of DDR ram and 160gb SATA 3.0 gb/s hard drive.

Thanks
 
Why don't you go with DDR2 RAM 667mhz? You don't wanna to run DDR on a Core 2 Duo, I bet it is laggy. I would suggest the Intel DG965WH, if you don't overclock, I have it no problems except, the memory is picky. It takes only 1.8v with timings of 5-5-5 or 6-6-6 and I dropped in a Gb of DDR2 1Gb 800mhz for like $163, you can get 667mhz for like $75-90, here's a link that will help you if you choose to go this route
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820144199
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813121052

The sound is pretty good with the drivers that come with it and Intel Audio Studio(included). The video is pretty good but just a little overated on the box it comes in. BEWARE the driver disk that comes with this is in DVD format, when I first got my PC and didn't have a DVD drive, I just got the drivers of Intel's website. So it was cool
 
I don't have a motherboard to suggest to you, but I will say that from my understanding your hard drive wont run at 3.0gb/s unless you have 2 identical hard drives set to RAID 0. Just thought I would let you know

Jeff
 
WHAT?? NO, THAT IS WRONG. You do not have to have RAID 0 to run at a transfer speed of 3.0Gb/s. As long as he has a SATA II hard drive(1x) he can go into BIOS and set SATA up with an AHCI controller.
 
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