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Hey I want to upgrade!!!!!!
- Thread starter Tiaan48
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Hey guys I just recently got myself a Msi G31TM-P21 ver 1.6 Mainboard do you guys think I must upgrade to this board? it has a intel pentium dual core 1.60ghz proccesor..... I wanna build it into my pc case 
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If you're going to upgrade the board, might as well upgrade everything else. Or, stick with what you have if it does what you need.
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