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www.ncix.com So many people have been asking me about this board, so I got my hands on one for your unboxing enjoyment!

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  1. #1 written by Damaruth October 13th, 2010 at 20:37

    lol @ the sticker jokes :D

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  2. #2 written by coltonashe1 October 13th, 2010 at 21:00

    dude i have that same shirt wierd i am wearing it now ><

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  3. #3 written by nooblet100 October 13th, 2010 at 21:08

    What really handy is but also a disadvantage. XFX has a 750 watt PSU and it has 2×4 pin CPU connector and also a 8 pin CPU connector.But it’s really handy if you have 2×8 CPU power connectors!

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  4. #4 written by bennerkiller October 13th, 2010 at 21:09

    And a good thing to remember when u buy this MOBO, remember to take off the chipset coolers and remove the yellow rubber, and replace it with normal thermal paste :)

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  5. #5 written by rx10 October 13th, 2010 at 21:21

    @blu3matrix Withou a video card, the games will run at extreme speeds such as 0 fps or – 300 fps

    it doesn’t have integrated graphic

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  6. #6 written by HabeKeinMitleid October 13th, 2010 at 21:31

    @blu3matrix To my understanding this board doesn’t have an onboard video chipset.

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  7. #7 written by HabeKeinMitleid October 13th, 2010 at 22:01

    @PokemonTrainer87 It comes underclocked which means it’s below the retail / stock speed. You would need to clock the ram to 1600 which is the norm. for 1600 MHz ram. 1333 MHz ram is slower than 1600 MHz and 1600 MHz only costs a little bit more IMO. It’s up to you.

    Don’t get confused when I say it comes underclocked. When your motherboard recognizes the ram, it will say some speed that is slower than the stock speed. You go in to the BIOS, overclock the underclock to 1600, and BOOM. Faster ram.

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  8. #8 written by PokemonTrainer87 October 13th, 2010 at 22:41

    @HabeKeinMitleid So dose that meen that if I put in 4 1600 MHz DDR3 ram sticks in it would go to stopck or do I just need to do a bit of a BIOS mod?

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  9. #9 written by blu3matrix October 13th, 2010 at 23:25

    This is probably a stupid question but if i got this board with no vid card how well would this run WoW, CS: Source, Starcraft 2, AvP and WC3? I’m getting AMD six core black and win7 with the board

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  10. #10 written by HabeKeinMitleid October 14th, 2010 at 00:17

    @PokemonTrainer87 The ram is stock at 1600. Because of the motherboards now-a-days it is impossible for the ram to be default 1600. It comes under clocked. So if you clock it to 1600 you really just clocked it to the stock clock… THEN if you want to over clock it, you can over clock it more because the stock clock is higher than 1333 or 1066.

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  11. #11 written by PokemonTrainer87 October 14th, 2010 at 01:02

    @HabeKeinMitleid Don’t I have to Overclock to use 1600MHz, as the specs say 1066/ 1333/ 1600 (O.C.)/ 1800 (O.C.) and 1866 (O.C.)

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  12. #12 written by HabeKeinMitleid October 14th, 2010 at 01:20

    @PokemonTrainer87 Might as well go 1600… Only a little more and it’s not THAT small of a difference.

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  13. #13 written by PokemonTrainer87 October 14th, 2010 at 01:43

    @HabeKeinMitleid I am thinking on going 1333 DDR3 d.c, which adds up to 8 gb+

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  14. #14 written by newnewnewb1 October 14th, 2010 at 02:16

    can somebody please tell me. is the sata cables included similar, or are there as asus say 2 sata600 and 4 sata 300??

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  15. #15 written by HabeKeinMitleid October 14th, 2010 at 02:36

    @PokemonTrainer87 It supports 2000, 1800, 1600, 1066, 1333 DDR3 in dual channel… Sooo… Pick one? :D

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  16. #16 written by gumberly October 14th, 2010 at 03:13

    @wiggles1a ageed!

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  17. #17 written by wiggles1a October 14th, 2010 at 03:41

    Your camera man reminds me of the stig

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  18. #18 written by PokemonTrainer87 October 14th, 2010 at 04:19

    I was wandering what RAM would you recomend for this motherboard?

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  19. #19 written by Qbite October 14th, 2010 at 05:10

    @Sn0wMaN132 Jip this Board doenst support Sli. Only Ati Crossfire

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  20. #20 written by Qbite October 14th, 2010 at 05:46

    @Sn0wMaN132 Nööp.. only Ati Crossfire

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  21. #21 written by Qbite October 14th, 2010 at 06:06

    Hey LInus. Does this Motherboard support Dolby Digital?! I gues yes because my old m3a78 does :D I want to get this motherboard next week. i got a creative x-fi titanium fatality edition at the moment. but the card doenst fit on that board. and i want dolby digital for my home cinema :D

    Many greetings QbitE/Alex from Germany :)

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  22. #22 written by FaithFullMemory October 14th, 2010 at 06:12

    @Sn0wMaN132 No, this is an AMD orientated motherboard. If your looking for a SLi I’d generally stick to NVIDIA orientated motherboards. Although if you still want to buy this motherboard there are ways to mod it to work with SLI, search it up on google should give you plenty of results. Whatever you do good luck and peace.

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  23. #23 written by ctoon6 October 14th, 2010 at 06:47

    @Sn0wMaN132 it does support 1 nvidia card, but not sli,i think you may want to check elsewhere

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  24. #24 written by Sn0wMaN132 October 14th, 2010 at 07:19

    So this does NOT support SLI?

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  25. #25 written by jeenormus October 14th, 2010 at 07:29

    the top express slot could be awkward to install when using cards like 460 or the ati 5800 series wth the heat sink in the way their

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