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> ASUS P5KC AiLifestyle Series iP35 Socket 775 8 Motherboard
>
> I have chosen the above board, because it has DDR3 slots and 3 PCI
> slots.
>
I bought one of these to upgrade my son's PC. I strongly suggest you go here
and read a bit about this motherboard:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&model=P5KC&SLanguage=en-us
NEVER use the windows utility to upgrade the BIOS. Use the EZ-flash in the
BIOS itself.
I had a problem with the installation. The IDE connector didn't work. I
suspect that could have been down to having a PCI card next to it, plugged
in, but not correctly powered up. However, the location of the IDE connector
is ridiculous in that board. (At the extreme right hand side). I overcame
the problems with it by not using any IDE devices. There are also a lot of
issues with memory. The idea of a combo memory card sounds great, but a lot
of people have had problems with both DDR3 and DDR2 RAM.
> Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.20GHz Socket 775 800FSB 2MB Cache Retail
> Boxed Processor
>
> I like to buy without the cooler, but read somewhere that these CPUs
> are not guaranteed. Is the above CPU over clock able ? If I do lay my
> hand on one without Cooler, which cooler would you suggest. I am
> trying to strife for a quitter computer.
I installed an E8200 - because E8400 cpus are strangely unavailable at the
moment. It works fine, but you have to flash the BIOS first to 0907. Don't
bother with the 1001 BIOS yet - it has issues.
>
> Kingston 1GB Kit (2x512MB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL5 - Non-ecc
>
> I like to have a pair to 1GB, but problem is they are very few vendors
> mentioned in Asus QV List. I could not locate their latest QVL if they
> have for this Mobo. The 2 X 1 GB Kingston which I found was more
> expensive that the mother board. Simply cant afford it. I wonder if
> any body have used non-QVL memory on this board successfully. I like
> to know the brand and mfg. #.
If you're using XP that's O.K. Kingston is recommended by Asus - so you
should have no problems.
>
> Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ 500GB SATAII Hard Drive 16MB Cache
>
Good and quiet.
> Corsair HX Series 520W Modular PSU - ATX12V v2.2 APFC
>
> I hope 520W would be sufficient to run this rig.
>
Should be O.K., especially with the graphics card below:
> MSI 8400GS 256MB DDR2 DVI VGA HDTV out PCI-E Graphics Card
>
> The last item which I am looking for is Samsung DVD Burner in Beige
> color. Right now they are all black.
Most of the ones I've seen have swappable front panels (although that can be
a bit of a pain to do). I have just installed a DVD Super-writemaster, which
is made by Samsung, has Lightscribe, DVD-RAM, Double layer, DVD+R 20x,
DVD -R 20x - in fact it does everything apart from blu ray and HD, and it
does it quickly. It is quite noisy. It did come with black, beige and
'silver' panels, and cost a very reasonable £21.74 from overclock.co.uk
http://www.overclock.co.uk/product/Samsung-SH-S203P-20x-Dual-Layer-SAT...ightscr
which is one of the better UK suppliers. (IMO)
>
> I usually do Photoshop, Premier and watch TV. No gaming. But I like
> to over clock so I extract the last drop of the juice before I
> upgrade to even faster CPU and Memory.
>
I think you will have some fun doing the overclocking. The board has a lot
of options for that. It is also made of good quality components. Just read
that Asus forum, before you get too carried away!
> I will appreciate your comments and suggestions please. Thanks for
> looking.
Good luck.
John
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