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Trying to decide between two mobos. please help me

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Hello I am in the final stage of deciding what to use for my build. I am going build a core 2 duo comp and I already bought a 8800gts pcie 16x 2.0 the Gigabyte is not 2.0 and the Asus is. its only 40 bucks more so I am now trying to make sure that the Asus will work with the CPU I chose. please look and help me out. thanks



Intel Core 2 Duo Wolfdale
http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16819115037


Asus P5n-D LGA 775 NVIDIA $149
http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16813131232



Gigabyte Intel P35 $109
http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16813128059
 
Don't worry about PCI-E 2.0, doesn't make an impact with today's cards. And I'm pretty sure both of those will need to be flashed, or hopefully shipped with a more updated BIOS.
 
Even thought the vid card is 2.0?

I have flashed one board and I fried it. The time I did it it was a re flash. How easy is it to flash a brand new board?
 
You just need a supported chip to get the system to boot up, then update the bios via usb drive or floppy. And yes, even though cards are labeled with PCI-E 2.0 it doesn't make a performance difference if you stick it in a PCI-E 1.1 slot.
 
That's fine, just saying that don't go out of your way to pay more for a board just for the PCI-E 2.0, true you can upgrade once a card that fully utilizes it comes out, but by then most people will probably be upgrading their motherboards for Nehalem cpus.
 
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