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Upgrade advice?

M

Mellman

Diamond Member
Well my parents need a new computer, and I typically use these opportunities to upgrade my own rig, and pass mine off to them.

I've currently got a P5B Deluxe with an E6400 running at 2.9Ghz on air.

Being out of the loop for a few months I've missed the latest gen Motherboards.

My only issue with my current setup is that I have 4GB of DDR2, and only 3GB is showing up. I know that the Bios is reserving 1GB for hardware, but I remember reading that next gen boards won't be doing this so the full 4GB will be shown to the OS(if the OS Supports it) Just sorta curious about that 🙂

Any suggestions? probably $200 area for a mobo, and an E6420 or faster CPU. need two PCI-E slots one for my areca raid card and one for my gpu.
 
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
If you use a 64-bit OS you will see all 4GB available.

If you want a new Mobo look at the Abit IP35 Pro.
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no...this is not the case. On my mobo, it see's 4GB in bios, and 4GB on post, but 64bit Vista see's only 3GB.

I'll take a look at the P35 boards thanks 🙂
 
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