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CZroe · October 16th, 2009, 08:53 AM

My brother and I just finished building a new Core i5 for our nephew's birthday. GTX 280, 2TB HDD space, the works. I'm still putting around on my netbook and mis-matche Q6600 setup... Asus P5N32E-SLI PLUS (hybrid Intel AMD chipset to equal the 780i feature set), GTX 280, PCP&C TurboCool 1KW (OVERKILL), 8GB DDR2 (why not? this board doesn't seem to do 1T command rate with two modules anyway), etc. The Q6600 is what's holding it back. I hesitate to take a dual-core upgrade but this odd motherboard doesn't support the fastest quadcores for the socket even though it supports 1333FSB... probably due to the strange chipset config. Bad-ass mobo though... all solid caps, DD Live/DTS (GOD I miss nVidia SoundStorm!), etc.

Oh! And it's all in an Antec 900 with all the wires routed under the motherboard and through holes my brother made in the mobo tray.

October 16th, 2009, 08:53 AM	#6
CZroe CPT Falcon Name: J.Emmett Turner Location: Newnan, GA Join Date: Apr 2009 Motorcycle(s): '08 CP Blue EX250J, '97 unpainted EX250F, 2nd '97 unpainted EX250F (no engine), '07 black EX250F Posts: A lot.	My brother and I just finished building a new Core i5 for our nephew's birthday. GTX 280, 2TB HDD space, the works. I'm still putting around on my netbook and mis-matche Q6600 setup... Asus P5N32E-SLI PLUS (hybrid Intel AMD chipset to equal the 780i feature set), GTX 280, PCP&C TurboCool 1KW (OVERKILL), 8GB DDR2 (why not? this board doesn't seem to do 1T command rate with two modules anyway), etc. The Q6600 is what's holding it back. I hesitate to take a dual-core upgrade but this odd motherboard doesn't support the fastest quadcores for the socket even though it supports 1333FSB... probably due to the strange chipset config. Bad-ass mobo though... all solid caps, DD Live/DTS (GOD I miss nVidia SoundStorm!), etc. Oh! And it's all in an Antec 900 with all the wires routed under the motherboard and through holes my brother made in the mobo tray.