I don't have a Gigabyte board, I've got an MSI. Good stuff. Built the rig myself, it started right away and has been stable ever since. I haven't overclocked anything - performance increase is usually not very much, but the heat production and stability problems can be serious. Dale is definitely right about cooling the drives. Since those Raptors are not full SATA they have a Marvel SATA/PATA interface chip, and that chip tends to get extremely hot, be sure to cool them! I've got two drive coolers in my system, one case cooler, one cooler at the power supply, and of course the CPU cooler, chipset cooler and GPU cooler. It's a regular tornado in that case! I'm not too sure about DDR2. At the moment it is more expensive than DDR400, and the performance is about the same. As far as I know, the MSI board accepts DDR2, but I chose 4x1Gb DDR400 (Transcend), just as fast and a lot cheaper. Tyan boards are top of the bill, especially if you want to go multiprocessor. But they're also quite expensive. For Poser, multiprocessor is useless, so you'd better spend that money on RAM and hard drives. If you can find them, try to go for 2 Gb memory sticks, or 1 Gb single-sided sticks. Then you only have to use 2 sticks, which means you can run the memory channels safely at 200 Mhz; with 4 double-sided sticks most systems clock down to 166 Mhz. Overclocking the memory to 200 Mhz often results in stability problems in such a case.

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