Do You Know If This Motherboard Can Hold My...

DaJoKeR

How Would This Motherboard Do? gigabyte GA-EG31m-s2 Intel G31 Chipset LGA 775 FSB 1333 DDr2

MainBoard.

Now I am Going To Have This On It

(Cpu) E8400,635 Watts Power,(Memory) 4Gb,(Video Card), 8800 GTS 512MB,(hard Drive) 500GB

With Vista-64?

Oh And should I add A Date Hard Drive? (does That Help Any with Games)

Loke666

It will work but it's a really crappy card. 2 Memory slots, 2 PCI slots (no regular PCI-E slots, just the one for the motherbord) Maximum 2GB RAM memory Totaly sucks when the RAM is as cheap as it is now.

I absolutly recomend you to buy another card. My recomendation is a A-BIT IP35 PRO IP35 card. 4 memory slots with up til 8gb, 3 PCI slots, SLI, 1 PCI-E 1x. You get Guru which is a software and will give you the possibility to use your processor at 3,5Ghz (the temperatur for the core2 is very low so it isn't a problem).

It does cost more but will give you a lot better computer. Gigabyte sux.

DaJoKeR

How Can You Tell how Much Memory a Motherboard Can Hold?

oakae

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Originally posted by DaJoKeR

Oh And should I add A Date Hard Drive? (does That Help Any with Games)

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What do you mean by "A Date Hard Drive"?

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Originally posted by DaJoKeR
How Can You Tell how Much Memory a Motherboard Can Hold?

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Cause it says so. It seems your current motherboard can only hold 2GB of memory.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2806&ProductName=GA-EG31M-S2

The GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L is cheaper than the ABIT and reliable, actually in general all the recent Gigabyte P35 motherboards are reliable.

xxthecorexx

is there a reason you're looking for a micro motherboard ? is size a limiting factor ?

 

i agree tho, this is a pretty lame motherboard to build a system with today. generally in the product specs it'll state max memory.