Thinking of upgrading

colt1911

colt1911

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As you can see I have a Asus board right now but it doesn't overclock very well and I've been looking at this board (GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6 LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Ultra Durable 2 at newegg.com ) . My question is right now I have 4 gigs of Corsair XMS PC6400C4 DDR2 800 memory and would like to know if it will work on this board. In reading it says it supports 1066 so thats why I 'm asking. I wonder if they will make one for SLI?
 
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colt1911 said:
As you can see I have a Asus board right now but it doesn't overclock very well and I've been looking at this board (GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6 LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Ultra Durable 2 at newegg.com ) . My question is right now I have 4 gigs of Corsair XMS PC640C4 DDR2 800 memory and would like to know if it will work on this board. In reading it says it supports 1066 so thats why I 'm asking. I wonder if they will make one for SLI?
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I'm not sure if you will have problems. Click here for the product home page at the Gigabyte website.

EDIT: It does support your memory. Click here. Look at the "Memory" section of the product specifications. You shouldn't have any problems. ;)
 
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Yeah it looks like it will be a nice board, I just wish it supported SLI. I've done alot of research on the new Nvidia 780I thats about to be released and everyone is saying bad things about it . So I 'm not looking in that direction , maybe it's time I just bought one decent GPU and forget the sli ? I know I'd save money and probably have a better system. What boards do you guys recommend for the new Intel quads?
 
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Yeah it looks like it will be a nice board, I just wish it supported SLI. I've done alot of research on the new Nvidia 780I thats about to be released and everyone is saying bad things about it . So I 'm not looking in that direction , maybe it's time I just bought one decent GPU and forget the sli ? I know I'd save money and probably have a better system. What boards do you guys recommend for the new Intel quads?
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The X38 chipset is recommended by Maximum PC for the 45 nm procs. Their recommendations are usually spot on. The 680i, through BIOS updates, is suppost to support the chips as well. The board you're considering looks pretty good, IMO
 
After talking to an Asus tech , my board will support the new Q9550 so for now I'll just stay with this board and pick up the new cpu when they come out. Thanks for your help.
 
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After talking to an Asus tech , my board will support the new Q9550 so for now I'll just stay with this board and pick up the new cpu when they come out. Thanks for your help.
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Cool. You're welcome. Good luck! :)
 
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