....and the p5gd2 has built in Intel High Def 7.1 sound. No need for the sound card. Save yourself the $100 bucks and put it toward the memory. Cut out that cd burner and go with the 530 CPU, with that Kingston memory you can run @ 3.34 w/ 900 FSB very stable. I have mine setup this way. Idle...
The memory you choose will not work with the motherboard. The motherboard needs DDR2. I am running the p5gd2 with Kingston Hyper-X DDR2 667 @ 600mhz. I could go alot higher but it is completely stable. I use the rig for editing HD content from a JVC GR-HD1. Lovin' it.
Just finished my system last night and was scared after all the "toaster talk". Results:
VIA Asus Probe and BIOS
32-36C - Idle
No chance for the Load temps. Will post them later. Was very happly with the idle.
STOCK HSF
ThermalTake Tsunami Dream 2x120mm
I set up a Intel Matrix RAID 1+0 last night. No problems encountered at all. You can only load windows on the array you created first.
I have 2 120gb Maxtor Satas. I setup my 1st array as RAID 0 and sized it at 60 gb. The BIOS setup automatically sized the 2nd array at 8? gb and I set it as...
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