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Altered Setup, Any good? (changed following advise)

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Hey, my previous build, which I thought was good turned out to have a few weak points. So after some advise I have altered it and here it is.

HDD's will be in RAID0.

Chose this motherboard as I will eventually run cards in SLI when the card is cheaper as it saves me upgrading to a whole new card for a while.

Anything I could improve/change, then please feel free to state.

A few more questions:
  • Is this mobo better than the P7N?
  • Do I have enough power to support future OC and SLI?
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Yes, it's very good for 866 quid.

That motherboard is not better than the P7N. As I said before, if you're just running a single 260 you can get a P45. P45's will overclock that CPU well.
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Yes, it's very good for 866 quid.

That motherboard is not better than the P7N. As I said before, if you're just running a single 260 you can get a P45. P45's will overclock that CPU well.

But I will be looking to get a second in a few months tho mate. If I am looking to run SLI ultimately, which mobo with that price range is best? The P7N or the P5N?

Can I not OC the CPU on either of those motherboards? If that is the case then I will indeed get a P45.

But please bear in mind I have NEVER OC'd before and as such I am hesitant to do so. If it is a highly skilled and difficult task, I probably wont do it LOL as I don't wanna screw it up.
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But I will be looking to get a second in a few months tho mate. If I am looking to run SLI ultimately, which mobo with that price range is best? The P7N or the P5N?

Can I not OC the CPU on either of those motherboards? If that is the case then I will indeed get a P45.

But please bear in mind I have NEVER OC'd before and as such I am hesitant to do so. If it is a highly skilled and difficult task, I probably wont do it LOL as I don't wanna screw it up.

You can overclock on those boards, but the P45 is a lot better overclocker. I think you should stick with the P5N.

Don't worry if you have never overclocked before it definitely nerve racking the first attempts since you really don't know what your doing. After reading some tutorials on how to do it and looking through the bios yourself its actually a very simple process. Just mind your temps and volts and you should do find.
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