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Paolo Pignatelli
In the final stages of deciding between an Intel 830 and an Athlon x2 3800+,
I am inclined to go Athlon at this point for power consumption (noise)
reasons. In reviewing the appropriate motherboards, however, I am finding
that there seem to be many complaints about stability of some of the MB I
am interested in. I plan to install 2 Gigs to start off, and will
eventually add another 2 gigs. I am looking at AsusA8N-SLI-Premium, but on
a vendor site, there are many complaints about having more than 2 sticks of
memory, and SATA issues too.
Can someone who has built upon the 3800+ and has 2 or more gigs of RAM
installed (even if not the Asus product) please help?
Will have 2 WD HDs (250's) and a low end graphics card (I don't game), and
will be running XP Pro.
I would like to use an Antec Sonata II case - is there then sufficient
cooling?
TIA
I am inclined to go Athlon at this point for power consumption (noise)
reasons. In reviewing the appropriate motherboards, however, I am finding
that there seem to be many complaints about stability of some of the MB I
am interested in. I plan to install 2 Gigs to start off, and will
eventually add another 2 gigs. I am looking at AsusA8N-SLI-Premium, but on
a vendor site, there are many complaints about having more than 2 sticks of
memory, and SATA issues too.
Can someone who has built upon the 3800+ and has 2 or more gigs of RAM
installed (even if not the Asus product) please help?
Will have 2 WD HDs (250's) and a low end graphics card (I don't game), and
will be running XP Pro.
I would like to use an Antec Sonata II case - is there then sufficient
cooling?
TIA