rammunition
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ok, i know very little about motherboards and am keen to know more, what should be looked for in a motherboard i.e dual channel ram, pci-e slots etc???
Gooners
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Are you looking to Crossfire or go SLI?
What Kind of Processor are you using?
DDR, DDR2, or DDR3 compatibility?
rammunition
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Gooners wrote:

Are you looking to Crossfire or go SLI?
What Kind of Processor are you using?
DDR, DDR2, or DDR3 compatibility?
what is a sli/crossfire???

sorry but i know little.

i have recently purchased a ECS GeForce6100SM-M2 motherboard which is DDR2 dual channel. I have got a AMD Athlon™ 4200 X2 dual core processor (2.2ghz) processor with it but it was a a bundle deal that was cheap.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Mod … mp;doy=3m6

i got it for £58.00


but i was browsing some shopping site and saw mother boards which cost £30 and some about £200 and both were am2. what is the difference
Scorpion0x17
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A full answer to your question isn't going to be short, ram - if I can be arsed I might slap a wee 'guidelet' together - unless someone else wants to save me the trouble...
Gooners
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Crossfire is when you run two ATi graphics cards, together.

SLI is when you run two Nvidia graphics cards together.
Brasso
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Scorpion0x17 wrote:

A full answer to your question isn't going to be short, ram - if I can be arsed I might slap a wee 'guidelet' together - unless someone else wants to save me the trouble...
you might get a sticky, so go for it

but if i get bored tomorrow, i might do one.
"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"
rammunition
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would be great if someone can put together a guide to motherboards, its the most confusing part of a computer to me

Last edited by rammunition (2008-06-08 12:31:26)

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