So today I picked up the motherboard and memory for the Reiter rig. Gotta say, wasn't expecting all the original paperwork (and CD) and most of the original cables to come with it (even a spare 775 pin cover). The eBay seller even saved the case stickers for the Gigabyte motherboard. Gotta say, if it powers up and functions great, the seller is definitely going to get a 5 star rating for this. The package even came from Estonia, and there's what looks to be no damage at all during shipping (which is excellent). Also the seller included a double fan connector (which I guess he was using for his CPU heat-sink fans). The north bridge heat-sink looks to have faded a bit (it used to be more of a golden yellow metallic color). Not really something to be bothered about, just something I'd thought to mention. The board I received, by the way, is a Gigabyte GA-965G-DS3 (in case you didn't read up on it in a previous post). It is a bit older than the P5Q in terms of generation of chipset (uses the 965G chipset which is a few generations older than the P45), but it is still a quality board with some overclocking potential (not as much at the P5Q though). The RAM the seller included was 2x2GB of Crucial Rendition RAM (which is their budget RAM without any heat-sinks on the outside). As I won't be overclocking the ram too much, it shouldn't really be a problem that there's no heat-sinks on the outside, just something that I aesthetically prefer on systems or if I need a bit of headroom on the overclocking side. Quite impressed thus far, lets see how it does in the case.
Click Here To Read More
No comments:
Post a Comment