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Old 05-13-09   #1 (permalink)
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credit card points!!! i can get a q9650 and put my q6600 in my parents computer or i can be selfish and buy an i7 and ram then buy a mobo with the money i made from the old platform.
p.s iz wantzz ghzzz
p.p.s i have a water cooling system and dont wanna change my block is there any 1366 board with 775 holes beside the p6t
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upgrade your video card before you get i7
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just get a bracket adapter for your block, if there isn't one the apogee gtz is a good block. also all of the p6t line boards are great. I have the bottom line one and the bios is ridiculous for the price.

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the gtx 260 is limiting me i can run all my games at max settings at 3360 X 1050
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credit card points!!! i can get a q9650 and put my q6600 in my parents computer or i can be selfish and buy an i7 and ram then buy a mobo with the money i made from the old platform.
p.s iz wantzz ghzzz
p.p.s i have a water cooling system and dont wanna change my block is there any 1366 board with 775 holes beside the p6t
Proably whatevers less money

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the gtx 260 is limiting me i can run all my games at max settings at 3360 X 1050
Didn't know a 260 can play Crysis max at 3360x1050
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If your Q6600 has a VID 1.2v then u should have no problem hiting 4.0Ghz with that MB.

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Didn't know a 260 can play Crysis max at 3360x1050
he said all of my games......who knows maybe he doesn't have crysis?? or maybe he forgot to specify that he is running 8x gtx 260's in octo SLi

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i cant it stable above 3.6 right now i'm at 1.344 vcore
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1 tb WD drive
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corsair tx850
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Coolermaster CM690
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