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The answer to your second question is a definite no as I tried to do this and was not allowed. I'm not so sure about your first question.

I couldn't get the clip used to hold the heatsink fan to work. I think the fan I used was incompatible. I had two fans spare so I decided to stick both of them on there. It keeps it about 1C lower with two fans.

It's back up and running. It turned out not to be a serious issue. I have an ultra-120 extreme heatsink with two fans attached and a Zalman 6 fan speed controller. The main cpu fan power cable has a connector coming off which is plugged into the mb so it can monitor the fans speed. A few days...

I got windows to boot. When I had both gfx cards installed I could not see the post code display. Now that I have one card removed I could see the display was indicating there was a problem with the cpu fan. I reconnected the fans and it now boots up. I'm going to attempt to plug my other psu...

I have plugged in my other power supply (an OZC 850w psu) and it fails to even post now. All the lights come on for a couple of seconds and then go off again. :(

Yes, it's less powerful so i'll unplug one of my gfx cards and give it a go.

I've had my system a little over a year and everything has been going great. I was just playing COD4 when the systems power failed, I first thought it was a loose power connection or a faulty power cable but it looks like something more serious. It will power on and post for a few seconds but...

Thanks for the advice. If I want to rip dvd's to xvid the BE processors would be significantly slower wouldn't they?

If you ever plan on adding more ram or going sli I would recommend 64 otherwise you'd be better off with 32. The reason being 32 os's can only reference 4 gbs of memory total (that includes the memory on your gfx cards) but 64 bit os's take up more memory. So you won't see any benefit with 64...

A 32-bit system can only use 32-bits to reference a memory address. So a 32-bit system can theoretically reference 4,294,967,295 addresses which would allow in reality it to reference just over 4gbs of memory. Pretty much every component in a pc needs to be assigned memory addresses by the OS...

Which would make a better HTPC system. Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H, AMD 780G with integrated radeon HD3200 coupled with an AMD athlon 64 x2 5600+ or EVGA nForce-630i with integrated GeForce 7150 coupled with an Intel core 2 duo e6500 I think the 780g is a better boards with better graphics but...

Ok thanks for the help.

I have a rough budget of 1000 euro, but i'm willing to spend a little extra to get reliable parts. I see the Q35 but thats twice the price is it really worth the extra 50 euro?

They dont' seem to have a P35, they do have a 610i and a i954G but neither of these have 3 pci slots. I could go for either and get the pci-e 1x x-fi card instead but I heard the sound quality is not as good.

Advice taken - thanks. :)