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barthautala   08-01-2007 at 06:42:37 PM

I hate the fact that everything is integrated onto the board now. Especially when the video is integrated. So Ive been looking at building a system and all I can come up with now are mother boards that have audio integrated onto them. I dont want that.

I do want - overclocking, support for 45nm chips, support for 8Gb DDR3 RAM, and a whole lotta expansion slots.

What is there available now?

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PCD   08-01-2007 at 07:21:59 PM
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Afraid you will have to manufacture one yourself. I suggest buy the MB you like to have, disable sound in th BIOS and install the sound card of your choice.

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TSIMonster   08-01-2007 at 07:27:11 PM
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Whats the big deal? Just turn off what you don't want.

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barthautala   08-01-2007 at 07:27:19 PM
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Oh........thats kinda what I thought anyways after doing alot of research. I read the newest article about over clocking the quad core and it mentions a few mobos in it. I checked them out. Which one of those is the best? And what would be more advantageous - 8gb of ddr2 or 4 gb of ddr3?

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brick88   08-01-2007 at 07:42:21 PM
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well 4 gb of ddr3 might cost a pretty penny. and 8 gb of ddr2 is pretty much overkill. plus either combination would require vista x64. I like the gigabyte ds3r p35 board. its got good support and plenty of features. and i would try and get a g0 revision of the q6600.

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dj_taboo   08-01-2007 at 08:01:18 PM
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The ASUS BlitzExtreme doesn't have integrated audio. It has a removable PCI x1 audio card.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/0 [...] page3.html
Also, some of the high end DFI boards have a removable "karajin" audio card.

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BUFF   08-02-2007 at 08:31:03 PM
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same with abit's AudioMax card

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dj_taboo   08-02-2007 at 09:05:29 PM
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BUFF wrote :

same with abit's AudioMax card


Oh yeah! That one too!!
The thing i didn't like about it was that the slot was proprietary.
You couldn't just toss the card and have an extra slot to use.

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