Hi guys, after a bad day at the office I decided to rewire the house and in my efforts managed to drop kick my rig off its plinth (dont ask) and as a result destroyed my primary disk. 
Rather than popping a new disk in, I have been putting an upgrade off for a good 6 months now, so time to upgrade asap.
After two days of hunting around reading various reviews etc I have managed to decide on only 2 things
1 x E6750
1 x 8800GT
I have a decent case and PSU etc but just need the mobo and RAM. I was convinced on a ASUS P5KC AiLifestyle Series iP35 and then a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R but discovered a few problems with both of them and am having cold feet
From what I understand The asus boards have lots of memory compatability problems not to mention the most stupid place to mount the IDE socket. The gigabyte boards have a habit of blowing up apparently....
I like the idea of both them boards as they support DDR2 memory and DDR3, so the next upgrade would be rather easy and cheaper. I also want to clock the E6750 too, Im not the greatest overclocker in the world, have done a little bit in the past and managed to get just under 3.4GHZ out of a Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad QX6850 for a client but I think that was more luck than anything else!
So anyways, my real question to you guys is, recomend me a motherboard?
If your feeling really helpful a (2GB) memory recomendation would be good too, althou a reply of 6400 or 8500 would do nicely.
I need to get up and running as soon as i can tbh, amazing how much you miss your games rig when its dead, so will be placing an order tomorrow.
Cheers
Daman
Rather than popping a new disk in, I have been putting an upgrade off for a good 6 months now, so time to upgrade asap.
After two days of hunting around reading various reviews etc I have managed to decide on only 2 things
1 x E6750
1 x 8800GT
I have a decent case and PSU etc but just need the mobo and RAM. I was convinced on a ASUS P5KC AiLifestyle Series iP35 and then a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R but discovered a few problems with both of them and am having cold feet
From what I understand The asus boards have lots of memory compatability problems not to mention the most stupid place to mount the IDE socket. The gigabyte boards have a habit of blowing up apparently....
I like the idea of both them boards as they support DDR2 memory and DDR3, so the next upgrade would be rather easy and cheaper. I also want to clock the E6750 too, Im not the greatest overclocker in the world, have done a little bit in the past and managed to get just under 3.4GHZ out of a Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad QX6850 for a client but I think that was more luck than anything else!
So anyways, my real question to you guys is, recomend me a motherboard?
If your feeling really helpful a (2GB) memory recomendation would be good too, althou a reply of 6400 or 8500 would do nicely.
I need to get up and running as soon as i can tbh, amazing how much you miss your games rig when its dead, so will be placing an order tomorrow.
Cheers
Daman
