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John N.

John N.

Joined on 02/08/02

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Most Favorable Review
GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Bought this board for the explicit reason of unlocking the Callisto 550 BE to a quad core... it works. FYI, DO NOT use the windows bios flashing, use Q-Flash. Total setup cost $170 which is how much Newegg is now selling a combo for now (wish I had waited) but still love this deal. Board came with F1 bios but download the F2 bios from Gigabyte's website and you are good. USE Q-FLASH, trust me.

Cons: I had to do a lot of reading to make sure this board would unlock the Callisto's 4 cores. It does, you don't have to read anymore.

Overall Review: Scoring 5.9 in windows vista ultimate.

AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition - Phenom II X2 Callisto Dual-Core 3.1 GHz Socket AM3 80W None Integrated Graphics Processor - HDZ550WFGIBOX
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition - Phenom II X2 Callisto Dual-Core 3.1 GHz Socket AM3 80W None Integrated Graphics Processor - HDZ550WFGIBOX

Pros: 5 eggs what else can I say that has not been said.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Best value board that I could determine was the GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P. It unlocks all cores and was a piece of cake.

Great value

ASUS GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card EN9600GSO/HTDP/384M
ASUS GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card EN9600GSO/HTDP/384M

Pros: Free Call of Duty, inexpensive, ddr3.

Cons: 384mb of ram

Overall Review: If you don't have Call of Duty it is totally worth it.