To sęs»: Wow, I haven't heard of that happening before. I'm very surprised to hear that the PCI-E x16 doesn't want to work with the PCI-E 2.0 x16 on the P5Q series. I was actually thinking about picking up a deluxe sometime early next year for a new build.
I found this out after buying the 'Pro', although I did get a brand new GPU to go with it.
If you're getting a really new build (including a new GPU), then the Pro/Deluxe is
probably fine. - If you've got the money, go for the Deluxe. The Pro seems to be a bit too hit-and-miss. It's either very good and solid, or very DOA. :(
i understand that they need to support them, the benefits and non benefits of 64 bit, the ram usage, all of that stuff but i still don't know how to find out if the parts that i am getting are 64bit compliant.
I'd advise against 64-bit Windows (64-bit Linux distrobutions are different, however), since the majority of software and games just don't aren't compatible with 64-bit vista.
Just buy the 32-bit version. (By the time 64-bit software is widely available, it'll be time to buy Windows 7 or whatever comes after it.)
While it WAS a nice "burst" and all, it really didn't do much to aid gaming in any way, except maybe start up time....
While on the topic of RAID, do you know what kind of performance hit drives take when in RAID 1?