upgrade the mother board or upgrade the RAM
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if you want to keep your desktop for long, then upgrade the motherboard. Of course with upgrading the motherboard you have to consider the compatible components in your current system with the new...
upgrade the mother board or upgrade the RAM
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fyi, the q6600 systems idle at 160w of power consumption and peak at 225 (depending on video). Are you planing on leaving this on 24/7? if yes, you will save more money by buying a low power core i3...
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I dont see a strong reason to upgrade your motherboard and ram. the Q6600 is already a 5 yr old processor on a 3 or 4 gen old socket, do you ever see yourself just replacing the processor? If not...
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Do you know if you are even using all your existing RAM?
I've got 1GB Ram, but using less than half when running XP and almost all of it when running Fedora 16. I don't think adding any RAM would...
upgrade the mother board or upgrade the RAM
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get new board if you plan on upgrading your cpu
or go cheap and get the ddr2 ram instead
upgrade the mother board or upgrade the RAM
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Hi all. I am looking to upgrade my old desktop, which has a Quad Q6600 CPU but only 2gb of DDR2 RAM. I am wondering whether I should upgrade the motherboard to utilize the new DDR3 RAM, which is a...
