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Buy two more GB of RAM.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2 [...] y-better/5
Can you still cancel the MB? You paid $215 for a P45 motherboard, which will work badly in Crossfire with HD 4870 1GB cards. For that money you could have had a GA-X48-DS4 or a P5E Deluxe X48, both of which work better in that scenario. This article shows the difference with HD 4850 512MB cards. With HD 4870 1GB it hurts more.
http://www.legionhardware.com/docu [...] id=761&p=8
A combo like (P5Q Pro + HD 4870 X2, no AS5, no aftermarket CPU cooler) would cost $80 more than yours. Would you care to guess which one does better in games? I can't believe nobody told you that in two weeks. 
Edit: sorry to ruin your fun, man. It will be a great gaming box, no worries. I'm just annoyed that we missed something so obvious...
Message edited by aevm on 11-10-2008 at 09:04:03 PM
Many serious overclockers prefer a crossfire P45 board to an x38 or x48, because they feel they can get more FPS out of the OC than the PCI-E bandwidth.
Of course, if you were serious about overclocking you would not get RAM rated for such a high voltage or populate all 4 slots with 1Gb sticks.
As aevm says, you'll be quite happy with this build. We just wish we had seen it before hand. Can't get to every thread, sadly... although I get to most of them 
That was why I just said "very nice." and left it at that, but since the can of worms got opened... don't sweat it, we'll pick apart our own builds if you bring them back a week later and pretend they are yours.
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