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Intel - Single Unit uiTX 945G Atom330 BOXD945GCLF2

$110.00 Est. at Amazon

from NEDLOH, www.newegg.com
none other thoughts: its a great little dual core system, does what it was made for flawlessly, i highly recommend for simple systems
from www.amazon.com
it has a vga and s-video output (no dvi) which can be used in dual display configuration.
from TwoPheat, www.newegg.com
dual-core makes it all work well.
from EverReadyUSMC, www.newegg.com
with the dual core atom it actually shows up as four processors.
from DiVAvtr, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: if it had another vga port for dual monitors it would be a great office machine.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Excellent Performance, Great Reliability, Compatible Processors: Intel Core Duo, Intel Atom

2 RECOMMENDED by 24 people for DUAL

Gigabyte G31 DDR2-800X2 VGA EES PCIE16 2PCIE PCI

$67.00 Est. at Amazon

from Fluffy, www.newegg.com
i'm running windows 7 rc with 2gb of ram and an e2200 dual core pentium and got it all running with a decent hard drive, a radeon hd 4650 and a nice case for just four hundred bucks.this motherboard
from N/A, www.newegg.com
when paired with a dual-core celeron and two gb of ddr2, it's an inexpensive build for my 12-year-old daughter - a big improvement over her 2.8 ghz socket 478 hand-me-down.
from thanatoast!, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: the dual bios feature is nice for a first time builder/overclocker like me because it means i can screw up the bios and i'll always know the second set will boot no matter what.
from Distortion, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: for the $50-$55 for this board, pair it with a cheap dual core..
from N/A, www.newegg.com
it works even with a cheap dual monitor pci express16 card installed!

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Positives: Nice Performance, Excellent Reliability, Easy To Install, Socket LGA775

3 RECOMMENDED by 24 people for DUAL

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P

$238.00 Est. at Amazon

from FrozenNorth, www.newegg.com
dual bios a great plus (just in case you mess up settings on the first bios, it will restore from a safe image).
from Smeagol251, www.newegg.com
also to those complaining about dual channel , etc..if you have 2 or 4 sticks in the board it defaults to dual channel, as is verifiable reading the amd overdrive utility.ganged vs.
from Wade, www.newegg.com
i love gigabyte's dual bios, you never need to be afraid of updating the bios because of it.
from Furman, www.newegg.com
dual gigabit lan love that but haven't taken advantage of it yet.
from Katphude, www.newegg.com
i was able to hook it all up with my 1tb hdd and dual toxic 4870s and it booted up first time, no problems, i put the windows 7 rc on it as my os and have had no complaints.

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Positives: Nice Performance, Easy To Install, Nice Reliability, Socket AM2

4 RECOMMENDED by 16 people for DUAL

Intel D945GCLF 533FSB DDR2 667 533 Audio Video

$98.00 Est. at Amazon

from Robert, www.newegg.com
i installed a 2gb kington dimm in it and dual boot ubuntu and ear os.
from alphaniner, www.newegg.com
also, it's only 100mbps.firefox is a little choppy in ubuntu (ff on dual booted windows is fine).maximum 512mb ram.no onboard speaker/buzzer, a feature which i used to hate, but have since come to
from atomistic, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: i don't have personal experience with the dual-core version of this board (d945gclf2), but since it's now about the same price as this one, and has gigabit ethernet and s-video out, i
from IntelJunkie, www.newegg.com
i will try the dual core version of this cpu when it comes out.
from Dave, www.newegg.com
the next model up has a true dual core chip for not much more $, this chip looks like it's dual core but it's doing the hypertheading instead (i looked up the specs at intel).

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Positives: Nice Performance, Easy To Install, Great Reliability, Socket 771

5 RECOMMENDED by 14 people for DUAL

Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4719331803094

$143.00 Est. at Amazon

from apaux, www.newegg.com
it has dual bios!!!!
from DBillings, www.newegg.com
dual bios, good, stable performance.can't ask much more from a motherboard.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
only thing it lacks as far as i'm concerned is dual 16x pci-e 2.0 slots, instead has an 8x for the second.
from RiffRaff, www.newegg.com
very easy to install, the dual bios is a great feature to have.
from Ricky, www.newegg.com
dual bios, in case something goes wrong..

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Positives: Easy To Install, Excellent Performance, Nice Reliability, Socket A

ASRock G31M-S

$45.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
i simply snipped the 3-pin socket in half on the case wire to fit it into the plugs of the motherboard.this is running a pentium dual core e5200 with 4gb of ddr800 memory and vista home premium 64-bit
from SSGROCK, www.newegg.com
asrock g31m-s lga 775 intel g31 1600fsbe1200-1.6 overclocked to 2.7a-data g series (2x2gb) ddr2 800 dual channel memory.
from civic_b18c5, www.newegg.com
i'm dual-booting with both vista64 & xp.
from Kms001861, www.newegg.com
overall very good deal for the money.budget computer specs.q8200asrock g31m-s4 gb corsair 800mhzevga 7800 gtexsiting hard drive ideasus dual layer dvd burner
from tim, www.newegg.com
this should be fairly future proof, i'm going to try in the near future to get a celeron dual core or something to replace my hot and slow p4 3.4.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Reliability, Good Performance, Socket LGA775

ASUS MB P5KPL-CM C2D LGA775 INTELG31 ICH7 DDR2

$56.00 Est. at Amazon

from michael patrick, www.newegg.com
don't waste money on integrated graphics mobo's, this gc is far better on a value board in a slim micro atx.rosewill slim micro atx2.5 dual core cpu4gb gskilllg dvd burnerasus p5kpl-cm cons:
from missykalena, www.newegg.com
pare it with a dual core processor, any 2 gigs of memory and you've got a great setup already.
from Bill, www.newegg.com
have a pentium dual core 2.5 gig on it.
from Mar, www.newegg.com
skill 4gb (2 x 2gb) 240-pin ddr2 sdram ddr2 1066 dual channel intel pentium e5200 wolfdale 2.5ghz lga 775 65w dual-core processortotally recommend this setup....
from Electric Cheese, www.newegg.com
pentium e2160 dual-core processor, ocz ddr2 pc8500 2gb dual channel kit (ocz2n1066sr2gk) @ about $60.

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Positives: Great Reliability, Easy To Install, Good Performance, Socket LGA775

Gigabyte P45 DDR2-1333X4 UD3 CPNT1PCIEX16 4PCIE

$119.00 Est. at Amazon

from PMAN, www.newegg.com
i replaced a dead socket 939 biostar nvidia nforce sli motherboard, a 1.8 ghz dual core opteron, and 4 gigs ddr 400 memory.
from ZeroDegrees, www.newegg.com
i dropped in 4gb g.skill pc2-8500 ddr2 1066mhz dual channel ram and it ran at the right speed and timings without having to adjust any bios settings.
from Thomas, www.newegg.com
i'm using an e8400 wolfdale core 2 duo, two 1gb sticks of a-bit ddr2-800 ram in dual-channel, two sata hard drives, and two ide dvd drives, all under windows xp sp3.
from echoDreamz, www.newegg.com
dual bios too for protection against bad flashes etc.
from 1stezekiel, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: dual bios, and 2oz pcb is an added bonus......

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Positives: Easy To Install, Nice Performance, Excellent Reliability, Compatible Processors: Intel Celeron, Intel Core2 Duo, Intel Core2 Extreme, Intel Core2 Quad

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H

$97.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
dual-bios is a plus, i'm using hdmi to my 37'' lcd-tv just the onboard graphic are quality, i'm also using windows7 beta os and booted with no problems, it installed all drivers only had to update a
from www.amazon.com
i matched the board with a phenom 9950 black edition quad, and it is currently clocked at 3.1ghz with 4g of ddr2 1066 dual channel.
from mandarin77, www.newegg.com
use the cd).using this motherboard with amd 5050e x2 dual core.
from gloryroad, www.newegg.com
a solid dual monitor video card, a solid sound card and the wired network adapter all on-board a smooth running motherboard (so far) for only $65 with rebate.i'm not pushing the envelop with fancy
from dochood, www.newegg.com
doesn't quite reach all of the screw-holes, so it dangles a bit.* hd support on quicktime 1080p was very choppy, even with a dual core other thoughts: doesn't quite get there for me.

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Positives: Great Performance, Easy To Install, High Quality, Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H 991443028

$156.00 Est. at Amazon

from Raven, www.newegg.com
i bought another to upgrad an older box....this time with a celeron dual core...same great performance...i love this board...buy it!
from J-Dub, www.newegg.com
i am using 4gb of ram, e8400 c2d, lg blu-ray/hd-dvd drive and 2 wd hdds dual booting vista home premium 64-bit and windows 7.
from SirStorm, www.newegg.com
i updated from a 1.5ghz 512 rdram intel system to this and 5200 dual core 4gb ddr2 for around $250.
from Tensuke, www.newegg.com
oh, the dual-bios is a handy feature.
from www.amazon.com
i'm going to eventually buy a second geforce 9400 for the pcie slot and run dual dvi monitors.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Performance, Great Reliability, Socket LGA775

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P

$145.00 Est. at Amazon

from Mr. Nintendo, www.newegg.com
550 processorwestern digital caviar black 1tb hard driveasus eah3450 256mb 64-bit graphics card (i know it sucks, i'm upgrading to a dual radeon hd 4850 setup)patriot viper series 2x2gb pc2-8500 ram
from Mike, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: dual caviar 500 gig drives in raid setup, nice!dual saphire 8350 in sli, i love it!soon to be 8 gigs of gskill pc1100, 4 for now.
from Benny, www.newegg.com
i also use the included gigabyte dual e-sata bracket connected to the gigabyte sata chip (actually it's a jmicron jmb36x).
from Strza, www.newegg.com
not really a con, just something you might consider if you run nvidia cards, and want to bump it to a dual setup.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
love the dual bios.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Performance, High Quality, Socket AM2

FOXCONN A74MX-K AMD 740G AM2+/AM2 Phenom

$51.00 Est. at Amazon

from fnash, www.newegg.com
combine it with a 45 watt dual core processor and the board temp barely gets above room temp.
from Longshanks, www.newegg.com
as it stands, my 3870 dual slot gpu takes up one pci slot, so if the onboard sound goes south, i'll have to come up with a single slot card, or use onboard video.
from martind360, www.newegg.com
supports dual channel ram cons: did not detect my ram as 800mhz, so i had to manually set it to the correct speed.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: i bought this board as part of a cheap dual core system for performing computations over an extended period of time and it has been very stable.
from STICK_IT, www.newegg.com
easy setup, nice layout, pcix16 2.0, dual channel, plenty of sata's and support for quad cores.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Reliability, Great Performance, Socket AM2

ASUS Maximus II Formula Intel P45 Core 2 Extreme

$270.00 Est. at Amazon

from Madcat, www.newegg.com
i really like the dual bios and the bios boot priority.it has 7 fan headers for the fan freaks.
from TN Review, www.newegg.com
i just wanted to point out the dual bios feature and its worth...it's not something i covered last time.
from Ted, www.newegg.com
the enclosed card (soundmax) gave me a little trouble with my dual boot system on the xp side, but, i figured it out (i disconnected the front wire hd audio connection to make the rear ports active
from N/A, www.newegg.com
plenty of usb, the esata is a plus, dual gigabit is also great.
from carolinarn7, www.newegg.com
240-pin ddr2 sdram ddr2 1066 (pc2 8500) dual channelpsu: corsair 1000whd: western digital raptor x wd1500ahfd 150gb 10000 rpm western digital caviar black wd1001fals 1tb 7200 rpm 32mb cache sata

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Positives: Excellent Performance, Easy To Install, Nice Reliability, Socket LGA775

Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H

$138.00 Est. at Amazon

from Posi, www.newegg.com
the board 'looks good' i'd note that i am running a dual core on it and barely pushing the limits.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i got it because i didn't need dual 2.0 x16, and i wanted a 9950 phenom.
from Questors, www.newegg.com
it has run great with a calisto 3.1 am3 dual core black edition.
from Jason, www.newegg.com
ddr2 dual channel memory.
from Snap, www.newegg.com
the dual bios saved me when i downloaded new drivers from gigabyte and system would not boot.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Reliability, Good Performance, Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R Core 2 Quad/ P45/

$157.00 Est. at Amazon

from First time builder, www.newegg.com
the 4 dual channel support dimms are easily accessible and labeled.
from Spankey, www.newegg.com
with a pentium 2.8 dual core and nvida 6800 all the ultra cool varietys.
from kallex, www.newegg.com
i had to set the correct speed on the installed intel dual core e8400 3g in the bios which was easily done.
from Guy, www.newegg.com
i've set them up with e8400 (dual 3.0ghz oc to 3.6ghz), q8200 (quad 2.33ghz oc to 3.3ghz), and a q6600 (quad 2.4ghz oc to 3.6ghz), with 4gb of either 800mhz or 1033mhz ram.
from gstar39, www.newegg.com
went from dual core conroe processor to a quad q8200.

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Positives: Great Reliability, Great Performance, Easy To Install, Socket LGA775

Gigabyte AM2+ 780G MAX-16GB DDR2 ATX

$111.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
paired this with 4ghz ddr2 and the dual core 3.1 ghz amd chip with a his hd 4670 card.
from repeatloader, www.newegg.com
if your into extreme...then get a board with dual crossfire- btw, if the board only sees memory at 800 instead of 1066, its the cpu's fault..not the boards...
from Waterboy9010, www.newegg.com
i play conan with a dual core 4 gbs of memory and a radeon hd 4850 1g graphics card.
from Ry, www.newegg.com
you can use dual monitors with just the igp, awesome.2 pci-e x 16 is a great design choice.
from DJ, www.newegg.com
they also look great in open cases : )corsair 750w psu4 x 1gb mushkin pc800amd 6000 x2 dual coreati sapphire 3850terratec dmx 6 fireseagate freeagent 250gbwd caviar 7200rpm 500gb sata

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Performance, Great Reliability, Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P

$169.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it has a dual bios, so no matter what, you can power up and solve any issue.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
also bios has setting in it to allow two different sets of dual channel ram to run at different speeds, this was excellent for me because the 4 gb is 800mhz and the 2 gb is 1066mhz cons: the
from SuKKrileR, www.newegg.com
dual boots.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: using 3.0ghz intel dual core processor, 4gb g-skill pc2-8500 memory, 160gb seagate 7200rpm sata hard drive, evga 9500gt video card and 64 bit vista home premium.
from Larry the Tech, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: the pci express lanes are well positioned for dual card setups and allow good cooling of both cards.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Reliability, Excellent Performance, Socket LGA775

Socket Am2 Amd770 4 X Ddr2 16gb- Ga-ma770-ud3

$98.00 Est. at Amazon

from Rex, www.newegg.com
one cool, but probably unnecessary feature is that it has dual cmos chips; one live and one back-up, which also allows you to update the bios in windows.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
having forced to buy a new motherboard because of screwing up my last gigabyte mobo bios, the dual bios feature on this board is a major plus.
from JD, www.newegg.com
am3 ready (for my upcoming upgrade), support for 1066 ram (though it sais it goes up to 1333+), lots of customization and oc support built right in, "fail safe" dual physical bios roms!!!
from grim4593, www.newegg.com
runs 1066+ memory, has dual-bios, can unlock extra phenom ii cores, has lots of sata and usb ports, runs stable.does everything i want it to do and then some for a low price.
from Snakes, www.newegg.com
lots of usb ports, in theory the dual bios feature could be very helpful but i've not needed it yet.

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Positives: Nice Performance, Easy To Install, Excellent Reliability, Socket AM2

GIGABYTE AM2+ AMD-RS780 4XDDRII-1066 5200HT

$72.00 Est. at Amazon

from Headmaster Fox, www.newegg.com
i currently have a 2.6ghz dual-core in it which works great, just the graphic card holds it back.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i used this processor in a budget gamer rig.gigabyte ma74gms-2 motherboard, 4gb mushkin ddr800, amd brisbane 5600+ dual core processorfirst things first, the revision 2.0 of this board supports
from cc102bob, www.newegg.com
my primary requirements were that it have dual video outputs and at least 3 sata connectors.
from Dubs, www.newegg.com
well built, like most gigabyte products.the onboard radeon video is excellent: supports dual monitors (one vga, one dvi).
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i put an amd athlon 7750 dual core 2.7 ghz in this board and about a month later gigabyte put this message on their website - * if you install amd am2+ cpu on am2 motherbord, the system bus speed

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Positives: Easy To Install, Nice Reliability, Nice Performance, Socket AM2

EVGA X58 LGA1366 Intel ATX SLI 132-BL-E758-A1

EVGA X58 LGA1366 Intel ATX SLI Motherboard (132-BL-E758-A1)

$396.00 Est. at Amazon

from Nowaynoverberwhat, www.newegg.com
the hd audio connector is placed where it will be inaccessible should you decide to run sli 16x/16x, top and middle slot, with dual slot cards (2 gtx 285s for example).
from illegalnaut, www.newegg.com
comes just about anything you need: sata cables, ide cables, dual and tri sli cables.
from IT King, www.newegg.com
1 stick will pass, dual channel will reboot and triple channel will lock up @ 7%.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
love the dual lan ports and all the usb connections, runs my 1600 memory no problems and easy oc on everything of course.
from www.amazon.com
this board is simply amazing, definetely recomended to any core i7 buyer, you get 3x sli, crossfire as well, dual gb ports, like 10 usb, about 10 sata ports(1 esata), evga support is the best.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Nice Reliability, Great Performance, Memory Type: DDR3 SDRAM

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Best Motherboards for Dual

Intel - Single Unit uiTX 945G Atom330 BOXD945GCLF2

Gigabyte G31 DDR2-800X2 VGA EES PCIE16 2PCIE PCI

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P

Intel D945GCLF 533FSB DDR2 667 533 Audio Video

Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4719331803094

ASRock G31M-S

ASUS MB P5KPL-CM C2D LGA775 INTELG31 ICH7 DDR2

Gigabyte P45 DDR2-1333X4 UD3 CPNT1PCIEX16 4PCIE

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H

Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H 991443028

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P

FOXCONN A74MX-K AMD 740G AM2+/AM2 Phenom

ASUS Maximus II Formula Intel P45 Core 2 Extreme

Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R Core 2 Quad/ P45/

Gigabyte AM2+ 780G MAX-16GB DDR2 ATX

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P

Socket Am2 Amd770 4 X Ddr2 16gb- Ga-ma770-ud3

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EVGA X58 LGA1366 Intel ATX SLI 132-BL-E758-A1

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