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I am trying to choose a motherboard to replace my old junk, but I only have $120 or so budgeted. I don't need a powerful graphics card for gaming, since I found out I mostly use either consoles or emulators.
What I do need is two monitors for watching movies and writing code.

I am NOT interested in going to a $300 until Yorkfield comes out. However after realizing that my motherboard is single channel and will not accept any dual core CPU, I think it is time to upgrade at least that.

so far I am looking at:
Abit FI-90HD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813127023

GIGABYTE GA-G33M-S2H
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128063


if you can help me out within this budget I would greatly appreciate it.

other suggestions such as moving to to AMD and getting both CPU and Motherboard or a motherboard and Video card combo at the same time are welcome, but I do need the dual monitors.


Message edited by cloud200 on 09-04-2007 at 06:50:35 PM

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