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eriksmith3000   09-22-2009 at 06:29:58 AM

Hi i have a amd athlon 64 x2 black edition cpu in a MSI K9N6PGM2-V Motherboard. i have two 9600 gt's but my mother board isn't sli. I was wanting to upgrade my computer but i'm only 16 and was wanting to spend around 300 to 350 cause i don't have much money. thanks to any help

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Assuming you are going to re-use your case/ power supply/ hard drives etc etc then probably the best value system for SLi might be this new mb from MSI

MSI NF750-G55 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI $100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813130235

Visit the webpage for the board at http://tinyurl.com/lzundm

AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz $119
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103649

Patriot Viper 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 $85
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820220333

So mb/cpu/ram for $305

The motherboard is fairly new so there arent any good reviews I could find . SLI is pretty new for AM3 so expect the drivers to be improving for a while .
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Bronze Home Brew badge Outlander_04   09-22-2009 at 08:24:58 AM
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Assuming you are going to re-use your case/ power supply/ hard drives etc etc then probably the best value system for SLi might be this new mb from MSI

MSI NF750-G55 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI $100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813130235

Visit the webpage for the board at http://tinyurl.com/lzundm

AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz $119
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103649

Patriot Viper 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 $85
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820220333

So mb/cpu/ram for $305

The motherboard is fairly new so there arent any good reviews I could find . SLI is pretty new for AM3 so expect the drivers to be improving for a while .

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eriksmith3000   09-27-2009 at 12:38:17 AM

i was wondering what the difference was between these memories and if it is worth the ten extra bucks

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