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Hi everyone,

 

I'm building a new budget system from the ground up. Here is the hardware I plan on using:

 

Mobo:

GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard

 

Processor:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6300

 

Optical:

LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model LH-20A1L-05

 

HD:

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

 

Video:

EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported Video Cardl

 

Ram:

( 4gigs of this ) Transcend JETRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model JM2GDDR2-8K

 

With a new case and power supply, the total comes to $630. Not bad.

 

I have two questions:

 

1. Is there a better motherboard that I could use? By better, I mean more willing to work straight out of the box.

 

2. What distro should I install?

 

Thanks everyone!

Well, I've purchased everything through newegg. I went with the E6550 Conroe 2.33GHz instead of the E6300 because they're the same price and the E6550 has a faster fsb and more L2 cache.

 

The grand total with shipping came to $750 USD. I could have saved another $150 had I went with a e4xxx cpu, 2 gigs of ram (instead of 4) and non-expedited shipping. But I'm impatient.

 

I chose overnight shipping. So it should be here tomorrow or wednesday. I'll do a full follow up report.

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