Quick question

[Kaldorine]

Thanks for reading my post.

About a year and a half ago i got prepared to purchase my parts and i ended up only purchasing my motherboard which is a gigabyte P35 DS3L. a few things went wrong i never did complete the PC, zip to current day and i still have this brand new MB.

My question is, Is this MB still valid even with a few of it's abilities being slightly old including PCI express 1.1? Should i just sell this thing on ebay and buy a P45? Or should i just finish my P35 build and wait on the P55?

I'm going to combine this with a Q6600 or a Q9300
4gigs of ram
600+ watt PSU name brand
Geforce 260/275 (I haven't decided yet)

I'm not a hardcore Pc gamer by any imagination but i am casting aside my console and my PC will take over all gaming duties. I just want to be able to play any game at max quality or close enough.

Thanks

 

[o1die]

You can try selling it on anandtech's "for sale" forum, which gets alot of traffic. But I wouldn't take a big loss on it. The difference between pci-e 1.1 and 2.0 is negligable.

 

[lopri]

If you haven't really started building the system, going for the latest revision (P45 in this case) is a good idea. If that's not feasible, make certain that your board supports a CPU that you'll buy. -> Motherboard Compatibility for Wolfdale and Yorkfield

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