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Intel Mother Board or Giga Byte?

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ckanth99

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I need to choose between two mother boards Gigabyte GA-945GCMX-S2 and Intel 945GCNL. I need your opinion on which company I should choose?

I thought Gigabyte is good company, But my friend saying Gigabyte motherboards will use 64 MB RAM themselves. (He is not technical person. He does have a system with GB board with 512 MB RAM. When seen windows system properties, it is showing 64 MB less there). If this is true, what might be the reason that Intel boards don't behave the same way?
 
I would go for the Gigabyte board if you ever want to overclock since Intel boards cant. If you want stability more than overclocking features, go for the Intel board.

The boards will use 64mb of ram for built in graphics. If you add a dedicated video card, it wont take any ram up.
 
Maybe your friend is looking at a board with onboard video. Just get a board without it. Gigabyte is the better choice for bios adjustments. Sometimes, you have to adjust memory voltage, even if you're not overclocking.
 
Sounds like your friend has a motherboard with onboard video/GPU as opposed to one without. If it is without an onboard gpu then no memory will be set aside for that device.

Now my question is, why are you looking at such outdated chipsets? Is their some reason for this?

Also is a Micro ATX motherboard a requirement, as both these boards are and both of which have onboard video?
 
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