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[Dexter Herbivore]

My old MoBo (P5QL Pro) finally died, so I took it as an opportunity to upgrade. 120Gb SSD, i5 quad core, new Gigabyte MoBo, Win7 64 bit and 16GB of DDR3. Stuck with my old 2x Radeon 7850HD crossfired. All I have to say is WOW. My old system wasn't shabby, but I no longer crash every 4th game and it looks magnificent.

[Catamount]

I had a P5QL Pro, too! The HDD Controller died so it got replaced with a P5K SE. That was two computer builds ago, but I still miss that machine sometimes. The E8400 was an incredible overclocker, and I liked my 4870.

Out of curiosity, which specific i5 did you get?

Edited by Catamount, 09 December 2013 - 07:05 AM.

[Dexter Herbivore]

i5-4670, seemed to be the best value vs performance.

[Dexter Herbivore]

My board eventually warped, partially (read entirely) my own fault for piling way too much into it and not screwing it down properly in my new case, but the P5QL-pro would rate as the best MoBo I've ever installed into a machine. I had a lot of respect for Gigabyte, even more now after the last-ability of the P5QL. I got close to 5 years of high end gaming out of it.

[p8ragon]

Welcome to the future bro
I used a p5ql pro as well! It died on me one day though (can't exactly remember why)

Oh well, it was an excuse to upgrade to an i5

[Catamount]

The P5QL is Asus, silly

But yeah, both are good companies. I had an E8400 between 3.6ghz and 4ghz on modest air cooling on my two Asus boards, I think for about 3 years. I bought at a bad time, as quad core chips were becoming desireable before long, and a decent Core2Quad was as much as an i7-750 or Phenom II X4, so I just decided to cut my losses on the LGA775 platform and upgrade. Still, it was a great system while it lasted.

[Dexter Herbivore]

Err, yeah. Sorry, Asus for the P5QL... I got too enthused about the new Gigabyte. If anyone is interested, the new Gigabyte is a Z87-D3HP.

Edited by Dexter Herbivore, 11 December 2013 - 09:11 AM.