Please correct me if I am wrong, but the only difference between these two boards is that the P35C supports DDR3 on two of the DIMM's and other than that they are identical, correct? If so I will probably go with the P35- to save myself a few dollars but I just want to make sure I won't be missing out on anything else.
While I am at it, would anyone suggest a different board for a C2D? Prefer not to spend over 160, just need it to run stable with minimal overclocking. As far as my system specs go, or will be:
2x1gig Ballistix 1066, just one 500gig Barracuda, 2 dvd drives, Corsair 520W, and the GPU is undecided but it will be a 8800gts 320/7950gx2 or maybe just a 7950 depending on what I find. Will probably throw in a bluegear sound card but I am sure most of this is irrelevant for a motherboard suggestions.
Thanks!!!
Edit: I got a pretty good deal on The ballistix 1066 on Newegg, I believe it was 80 after rebate. Now I see so many DDR2 800 deals I am kind of kicking myself for not just getting 4 gigs of that, but then reading some posts on other forums the whole speed of the RAM proportional to the speed of the FSB is confusing me. Will the RAM speed be taken advantage of being that it is 1066 or is it to fast for the motherboard?
From my understanding DDR2 1066 = 533MHz but a mobo/cpu like this only have 1333MHz FSB = 333MHz, which is obviously not even close to the 533MHz making it near impossible for it to be 1:1... Is this true? Should I even care?
While I am at it, would anyone suggest a different board for a C2D? Prefer not to spend over 160, just need it to run stable with minimal overclocking. As far as my system specs go, or will be:
2x1gig Ballistix 1066, just one 500gig Barracuda, 2 dvd drives, Corsair 520W, and the GPU is undecided but it will be a 8800gts 320/7950gx2 or maybe just a 7950 depending on what I find. Will probably throw in a bluegear sound card but I am sure most of this is irrelevant for a motherboard suggestions.
Thanks!!!
Edit: I got a pretty good deal on The ballistix 1066 on Newegg, I believe it was 80 after rebate. Now I see so many DDR2 800 deals I am kind of kicking myself for not just getting 4 gigs of that, but then reading some posts on other forums the whole speed of the RAM proportional to the speed of the FSB is confusing me. Will the RAM speed be taken advantage of being that it is 1066 or is it to fast for the motherboard?
From my understanding DDR2 1066 = 533MHz but a mobo/cpu like this only have 1333MHz FSB = 333MHz, which is obviously not even close to the 533MHz making it near impossible for it to be 1:1... Is this true? Should I even care?