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Hopefully at the end of next month I'll have on order

 

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If I was to take my existing hard drive out of my PC and put it in the newone, would there be any issues regarding the OS or anything else?

I also may use my exsiting PSU as its quite new.

 

Might have an issue with the chipset drivers..

 

I thought there would be something, oh well not to worry.

 

Windows isn't very happy at being moved like that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it sits there and sulks and won't do anything at all. Sometimes it leaves behind so many wrong drivers that the machine is flaky ever afterwards.

Harry.

 

I'll stick with a new hard drive then, cheers

 

I may use it and just format it and do reinstall everything or I may just get a new drive.

 

On that note: you don't need to format the old drive if you buy a new one, just use it as a slave and run the OS from the new drive. That way you don't lose your stuff and you can format it later once you've moved all that you wish to keep to the new drive

 

Cheers Dave & Sparky thats cleared things up

 

Please tell me you're getting SATA drives! No need for slave/master configes, and they're a hell of a lot faster!

 

yep SATA2

 

I am having second thoughts on getting a ddr3 motherboard because of latency not being as good as ddr2 at the moment. I am just wondering what is the best chipset as in regards to n780i, n790i, x38, p45 etc etc.

 

Only get an Nvidia chipset of your planning to go SLI on your graphics cards. If you are planning on one graphics card go with Intel chipsets. If you going with DDR2 RAM I would get the P35, if your going with DDR3 its the X38...

 

Cheers for the advice dude

 

No probs.

When building a PC I love the research and deciding what parts to get. Then I love building the thing. Then I love setting it up. Then I love tweaking it. Then I love using it.... man, I need to get out more

 

me too, I would really like a ddr3 mobo but I have been researcching latencies especially with this mobo and you only get 7 for the latency and this is supposed to be the best ddr3 mobo you can get.

You can get ddr2 mobos where latency is 3, but then again the latency will improve.

 

The latencies and the cost of DDR3 RAM, coupled with the cost of X38 chipset mobos is the reason I went for DDR2 and a P35 chipset board. You’re not really gaining very much by going to DDR3 yet, the benefits of the increased FSB speed are lost in the latencies. DDR3 will get faster, and if you buy a DDR3 board now you’re all ready to take advantage, but DDR2 will still be a contender for 12-18 months I think. The P35 chipset was designed with DDR2 RAM in mind, the X38 with DDR3 in mind for native support. The X48 doesn't seem to have much of an uptake at all currently.

 

That does seem to be the case, I am going to look for P35 chipset on an ASUS mobo.