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by Nick Breckon, Oct 05, 2009 6:00pm PDT

Not sure I wanted to see any of that Modern Wafare 2 trailer. Though I did like what I saw.

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What is the hotness in the new i7 boards? Starting to put together the new RIG and need help picking a motherboard out.

Also, I have 6gb of DDR2 ram currently, should I reuse it?

Oct 06, 2009 5:20am PDT

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- I'm really hungry and now I want pancakes : ( : hax3d
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  I thought the i7 boards could not use DDR2. : tavis
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    The new ones use DDR2 or DDR3 : pancake humper
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      I thought that was only the i5 boards. : Sapiens
      
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      Or maybe I'm thinking dual channel versus triple channel. : Sapiens
      
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      Hmmm....I thought all of the 1156 chips and boards can use DDR2 or DDR3. Maybe I am confused : pancake humper
      
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      You are confused, ALL the Lynnfield/Bloomfield family are DDR3 only. : Toraz Chryx
      
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      Roger that. What board you recommend? i7 860 : pancake humper
      
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      http://gwyn.tux.org/~balsa/linux/cyrix/SiS_5598_large.jpg : ateam311
      
      holy shit! : Toraz Chryx
      
      I'm quite liking the gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4 but that's micro atx (I have a speciality in doing fast as h... : Toraz Chryx
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      i7 P55 (8xx, e.g. 870) isn't i7 X58 (9xx, eg 920). Bloomfield (i7 9xx) has a LGA1366 socket, DDR3 supp... : matthaeus
      
      Sorry, it's 1156 and Lynnfield doesn't support DDR2 :( : matthaeus
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  http://event.msi.com/mb/bigbang/ : ant_hillbilly
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    this doesn't tell me anything :( : pancake humper
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      haha, sorry its that new MSI motherboard with the hydra chip on it.
      
      Oct 06, 2009 5:34am PDT
      
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      haha, sorry its that new MSI motherboard with the hydra chip on it. : ant_hillbilly
      
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      this doesn't tell me anything either! : pancake humper
      
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      http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1093/1/ Lets you mix and match ATI or Nvidia cards. : ant_hillbilly
      
      Oh that chip! I remember Toraz talking about that thing. I don't think I would ever use that feature thou... : pancake humper
      
      However definitely something to wait and see what benchmarks will be like, also driver situations. Its o... : ant_hillbilly
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  Related question: Are there any i7 or i5 laptops coming? : TwiLyght
  - i7 laptops should be available soon, but only in 15"+ : matthaeus
  - There are laptop spec i7's http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/intel-cores-1-73ghz-i7-820-qm-mobile-cpu... : Toraz Chryx