Hello,
I currently have been running a Pent 4-2.8ghz, Abit IS7 motherboard, 1.5Gig corsair 3200 DDR. I was planning to buy some upgrade memmory and graphics card... and Windows VISTA,when I learned.... how out of date my system was(although I have been very happy with it the past years). Anyways, I am in the market to build a new computer, a gameing computer...and I have decided to build it myself(im trying to learn). I have done some reading and narrowed down 2 choices in CPU's and mother boards, I am hopeing you could help me make a decision...or make it for me...haha.
After, talking to some people and reading reviews.. I am haveing problems decideing over the ABIT AWD9-max or EVGA nForce 680i SLI mother board with either the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 or Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 ?
Reviews say Great things about both motherboards... with the nforce 680i looking to have greater specs and performance and customer service, but the ABIT sounding a bit more user/newby friendly and stable? or is this just me? The price differance between the 2 doesnt bother me... I am just looking for someone to tell me.... which is the better board ? The CPU's im looking at have about a $200.00 differance. Everyone seems to rave about the E6600, is the E6700 noticably worth the extra 200.00 bucks? I'm planning to Run the GeForce 8800GTX video card, and other than doing some hardcore gameing want to get into more multimedia applications. (if any of this makes a differance.) Anyways, as soon as someone makes up my mind about what to buy and or other recomendations on hardware to go with the above CPU and MB's.... I'll make the order
Thanks Swann
I currently have been running a Pent 4-2.8ghz, Abit IS7 motherboard, 1.5Gig corsair 3200 DDR. I was planning to buy some upgrade memmory and graphics card... and Windows VISTA,when I learned.... how out of date my system was(although I have been very happy with it the past years). Anyways, I am in the market to build a new computer, a gameing computer...and I have decided to build it myself(im trying to learn). I have done some reading and narrowed down 2 choices in CPU's and mother boards, I am hopeing you could help me make a decision...or make it for me...haha.
After, talking to some people and reading reviews.. I am haveing problems decideing over the ABIT AWD9-max or EVGA nForce 680i SLI mother board with either the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 or Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 ?
Reviews say Great things about both motherboards... with the nforce 680i looking to have greater specs and performance and customer service, but the ABIT sounding a bit more user/newby friendly and stable? or is this just me? The price differance between the 2 doesnt bother me... I am just looking for someone to tell me.... which is the better board ? The CPU's im looking at have about a $200.00 differance. Everyone seems to rave about the E6600, is the E6700 noticably worth the extra 200.00 bucks? I'm planning to Run the GeForce 8800GTX video card, and other than doing some hardcore gameing want to get into more multimedia applications. (if any of this makes a differance.) Anyways, as soon as someone makes up my mind about what to buy and or other recomendations on hardware to go with the above CPU and MB's.... I'll make the order
Thanks Swann