I am upgrading my system to give me more SATA connectors on the MB. My old system has been working fine, I just wanted to clean up my case some by removing the add on cards for the extra SATA connections. And I wanted to use my Ultra X-Wind cpu cooler that would not fit my current board. I have already bought the ASUS P5Q board. I think that the new Intel P5 2.8 will be a nice improvement over my P5 2.13 DC. I am running 4 gb of ram even tho XP 32 bit only sees about 3 gb. I mainly watch videos and use Pinnacle Studio 12 for converting my VHS library to DVD, and converting some music LP into digital mp3. So will the ram give me any improvement over the 667 DDR2 that I have now and which of the 2 listed would be best? Thanks Randy
ASUS P5Q MB
$129.99
http://www.tigerdire...e...&CatId=1572
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Processor
$119.99
http://www.tigerdire...e...97&csid=_25
Ram
$32.99
Corsair Dual Channel TWINX 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz
http://www.tigerdire...e...74&csid=_25
Or
$51.99
Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X 4096MB PC8500 Memory - DDR2 1066MHz
http://www.tigerdire...e...&CatId=2261
Ultra X-Wind Socket 775 Copper CPU Cooling Fan
http://www.tigerdire...e...06&csid=_25