Re: Planning on a new system w/P5B Deluxe need help

1. I bought Corsair TWIN2X1024A-6400 1GB Kit DDR2-800 XMS2-6400. Works well. This is a 1GB kit (2x512), but they offer a 2GB kit also (TWIN2X2048A-6500). There is faster memory (will cost more) if you think you need it.

2. You can use the drive, but the installed system won't work. Your choice are to reinstall Windows if you want to boot from it, otherwise if you have another boot drive, you can access the files on the drive and use it for storage, but not as a boot drive without reinstallation (you might get by with a repair install, which would leave all of your installed software and data intact). Don't forget about the Windows Product activation issues.

3. Yes, you could do that after you resolve how you are going to use your existing drive and how you are going to boot.

See my recent threads on alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte

TOMR2C wrote:

Am planning on building a new system based on an Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi board and a Conroe E6600. I have some questions before I buy. (1) I would like 2gb of DDR2 800 ram but don't know what to get or what will work (to many choices). (2) Can I use my current hard drive (WDC 160gb ATA) and be able to boot up? I don't want to reinstall everything (programs, patches, updates, etc.) (3) If I can use my existing drive can add 2 sata raid drives later and copy everything to them and get rid of the WDC drive? My current system is an Asus P4PE w/2.4ghz P4 and 1 gb ram. Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks, Tom


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