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    mainboard help !

    Its my first post on here so i appologise if my question has been answered .I,m gonna be building a new pc using a e6600 cpu & could do with advice on a mobo two choose.i have done some research & have narrowed it down to these

    Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 rev3.3
    Abit AW9D-MAX PCI-E
    ASUS P5N32-E Quad SLI NVIDIA 680i
    XFX 680i LT SLI (seems on paper a decent board 4 the money).

    I mainly do vid editing with a bit of gaming thrown in so which if any of the above would you advise.Many thanks for any help given.

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    Many thanks Clunk

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    • Blitzen's system
      • Motherboard:
      • ABIT iX38 QuadGT
      • CPU:
      • Intel Quad Q6600 @ 3.6Ghz : 30 Degrees Idle - 41-46 Degrees Load
      • Memory:
      • 4 x 1GB OCZ Platinum PC6400 @ 4-4-4-12
      • Storage:
      • 2 x 500GB Samsung Spinpoints - RAID 0
      • Graphics card(s):
      • GTX 285
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    Abit AW9D-MAX PCI-E

    I got this...its fantastic!!!!!

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    • DratUK's system
      • Motherboard:
      • ASUS P877-V Pro
      • CPU:
      • I5 3570K with Antec Kuhler 920
      • Memory:
      • 8Gb Corsair Vengance
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    The max is an excellent board provided you dont need more than 1 PCI slot. Its the best 975x board around by far.

    I would also throw in the QuadGT the bios is now mature and the next set of bios release should be for tweaking the performance.

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    quadgt unless you want sli
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