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Old 28th Oct 2008, 05:17
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I am trying to decide on which motherboard to use for my home build which will not be overclocked or used for games.I have the Intel E5200 cpu and undecided on the Asus P5KPL-CM or the Foxconn G31MV-K they both say 800 fsb and my other question is the type of memory I should get for either one.I know the less Cl and timings are faster modules but not sure if I should go with DDR2 800 pc2 6400 DDR2 667 pc 5300.Just want something that will work with 1.8volts.Thanks
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Old 28th Oct 2008, 15:34
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i dont think it will make much of a difference about the ram of course the 800 is faster but the cpu could be bottlenecking it i would also go for the asus but my personal choice would be a gigabyte one of the p35 chipsets
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Old 28th Oct 2008, 16:01
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If I go with the Gigabyte motherboard I will need to find one with onboard vid since I do not want to add a dedicated card.I also thought the Intel E 5200 would work for what I need?
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Old 28th Oct 2008, 18:02
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it should work fine but you want to maintain a about 1:1 ratio with cpu fsb and ram speed and 667 would be over the 1:1 so even that may be bottlenecked
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Old 29th Oct 2008, 01:26
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What? That's not true at all. But you might as well get the DDR800 - it's about the same price in most places.
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Old 29th Oct 2008, 05:07
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Now I am really confused!! I thought I read that the Intel E 5200 Core 2 duo has a fsb speed of 800. and I would be able to use (2x1Gb) DDR2 800 (pc2 6400) modules.I will be using windows xp 32 bit OS which will limit the ram to 3.5Gb if I go that much.
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Old 29th Oct 2008, 05:32
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There is a 12.5x multiplier on the E5200, it's a really low FSB, even if you were running a really high end chip like the E8400 with a low multiplier and a high FSB, there would be no "bottlenecking" present because nothing touches 400mhz without an overclock these days. The DDR 667s will run at 333mhz, the E5200 at 200mhz, so even if you did that you wouldn't have a problem.

Don't worry about it, grab the 800s if they're a good price, but don't worry too much either way.
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Old 29th Oct 2008, 06:14
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Thanks for the help on the ram.Would you happen to know anything about the quality of the AsRock G43Twins HD MoBo?
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Old 29th Oct 2008, 06:40
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Not specifically, but ASROCK tends to make pretty decent stuff. Unless you're going super super budget though, most of the time you can get a P35 or P43 board pretty cheap.
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Old 29th Oct 2008, 08:18
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I see it has the p43 chip with onboard vid which is what I am looking for and for around $80.00.
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