Depending on your needs either Gigabyte board is good. You might want to consider the UD4P as well
UD3R - Solid board, only 4 RAM slots (runs triple channel), fewer bells and whistles but the best bang for the buck motherboard out right now for i7.
UD4P - Newer integrated audio, 8x PCI...
There are other reasons to upgrade than sheer speed (UVD2, HDMI audio etc).
As for gaming, on my 24" at 1920x1200 I don't see any speed difference between my old 8800GT and the 4870 in "older" games (HL, HL2) however, being able to crank everything to the highest settings with full AA in DX10...
For what it's worth and IMHO you made the right choice, If you want to build next year based on Intel "piece partsing" an Intel system now would be counterproductive. When you get ready to build next year prices will be lower on most of the parts and you already have a great bang for the buck...
AHCI on the ICH9 should enable both hot plug and NCQ if the disk supports it. Note that you have to install Vista with the controller set to AHCI. I have successfuly updated from IDE mode to AHCI on a BX2 with an existing XP Pro SP2 install but haven't tried to do it on Vista32 or 64. NCQ (and...
In my research these are the things I've found that helped me decide on the Gigabyte X38-DQ6. Some will agree and disagree on these points but that is the state of affairs in the industry right now :)
1. With the rate of incremental new releases in the last year and the forseeable future...
I once forgot to plug in the PCI-E power plug on my 8800GTS and got the same thing. I think the "squeal" is the vid card (or onr of them) telling you it doesn't have enough juice. You could try ensuring the plugs are all seated well.
Since the vid cards and MB run fine without all the other...
1. Case - Don't go cheap on the case. While something from Antec( P180/Sonata/900), Thermaltake or Lian Li is more expensive they are usually cooler and quieter (I can't hear my P180B from 1.5 ft away on my desk.
2. OK on the mobo but theres also the DS3.
3. Must agree with DaftPunkit on...
While me loves me Vista I have to agree that, for primarily gaming, stick with XP.
The driver situation is pretty hit or miss right now (even though I'm sure that the likes of Nvidia, AMD/ATI, and Creative Labs had access to Vista code WAY befor I got a hold of Beta 2).
While Vista runs...
If you have any other PCs you want to upgrade to Vista then MS has a "buy retail Ultimate and get up to 2 Home Premium upgrades for $50.00 each" deal going on. Either way it's a good price and I've had few problems with Vista (I had MANY more when XP first came out). I do wish I'd gotten it for...
You could just use thw "Windows Easy Transfer" off of the Vista DVD when you get ready to upgrade...
Also keep in mind that if you are doing a clean install that you will have to actually re-install most of your programs. I would get the Vista Upgrade Advisor from MS and run it against your...
If it's XP Pro try VirtualPC 2007 from Microsoft. If there is a security issue then it will only affect that virtual machine not your whole PC. I've run DOS, OpenSUSE 10, and Fedora this way fine and it's free...
While the 965 boards overclock the 6300/6400 better I would recommend this (since you are also looking at 975 boards):
Bad Axe 2
The price is right and it's pretty overclockable, and the best is it's stable as the proverbial rock... (running my E6600 @ 380FSB at stock voltage on...
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