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Old 07-10-2008, 07:07 PM   #1
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putting together a PC

I'm going to be putting together a PC for a friend and havnt reallty assembled a machine in the last few years so kinda out of the loop. Was wondering if anyone could recommend a MOBo and CPU to start off on I would greatly appreciate it.


*** looking to go with a duo processing mobo
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Old 07-10-2008, 07:22 PM   #2
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I think you will get more answers if you give a few more details such as budget & what will the system be used for mainly.

Right now I think a very popular mobo/cpu combination is one of the P5Q boards from ASUS (P45 chipset) and a Intel E8400 Core 2 Duo.
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