P5K VM or P5K SE?

[n00dles]

Asus P5K VM or P5K SE motherboard, I notice there's not much difference in price...to go along along with the Q6600 Quad CPU - which would you go for?

[staffsMike]

I serverly doubt you would notice a difference. I'd probably have the VM I seem to remember it having more features. (EDIT: quick inspection shows them to be very similar accept the SE has an eSATA port, which is a fast port for external hard drives if that is useful)

They are a different size which may affect which case you can use though.

[n00dles]

How about the MSI P6NGM?

[staffsMike]

No idea on that one.. looks a bit naff though and I've been let down by MSI too many times to buy them anymore.. especially cheap ones. Stick with asus.

As I said though you won't really notice a big difference between the boards, it's only really overclocking that seperates them these days. Stock performance is all much of a muchness.

[Noxvayl]

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