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I'm building a pc and i need some advice on a motherboard. I'm gonna be running an intel Pentium E5200 Dual-Core Processor. After looking on Newegg to find a compatible motherboard the only ATX one i could seem to come to was the ASROCK 4coredual -SATA2. Now I'm looking for the best performance graphics card that it can support. Can anyone recommend a graphics card? Also, can you recommend, If you know of, another ATX Board you can use with the Processor thats compatible with a really good graphics card? Its for a gaming PC.
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You must be trying to re-use your old ddr to be interested in the asrock board. You can still get ddr2 for about half the price of ddr. I got my 2x2gb kit of pny pc6400 for $27.99 after rebate a few days ago at Fry's. The asrock board has an old chipset; it will run some 1066 cpus, but not the e5200 which is 1333 fsb. I recommend a p45 board. The foxconn ELA p45 is only $69.99, same price as the e5200 at newegg. It should work fine if not you're not overclocking. For graphics, it all depends on your budget and power supply ratings. If your power supply doesn't have at least 24 amps on the 12v rail, then you need to upgrade it to use many newer video cards. I recommended the asus EN9600GSO/HTPD/384M earlier. It's only $54.99 (newegg) plus you get a $20 rebate.

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