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Hi, i don't think NVidia/ATi will release a DX10 card for the AGP slot. AGP is obsolete. As an alternative and depending on your current system you can just get a cheap PCIe mobo and a PCIe card instead. Investing into a AGP card now is a little late ... i wouldn't do it .. Christian

Hi, It is!! I've just ordered one myself yesterday. It's in essence a GTX with slower memory, but the same 1.1ns RAM chips like on the original GTX are used. Based on knowledge from a german hardware forum it should be no problem to clock the RAM @ 800Mhz. And even if you're very unlucky and...

Hi, the MSI GTO is a special limited edition, its more or less a GTX, the only difference is the memory clock speed which is 660Mhz instead of 800Mhz. But the used memory is 1,1ns (which is normally capable of reaching 800Mhz) and on a german hardware forum people have affirmed thats easily...

Hi, the board is OK, it's almost on par with Intel chipsets, the only real drawback of this board is that the 16x PCI Express slot only runs @ 4x speed which results into a performance loss of about 10% in games (only with higher end graphic cards which can utilize the additional bandwidth of...

Hi, The Asus board has a memory multiplier, it's called "DRAM frequency" which you just set to the desired DDR2 speed (DDR2 800 in your case). You have to set the "AI overclocking" option to "Manual" to access the "DRAM frequency" option. If you have a look in the manual of your board you'll...

Hello, At 1:1 the memory runs syncronous with the FSB, but this is not really an advantage, depending on the motherboard chipset a FSB of 266 in sync with DDR2 533 can be marginally faster than running DDR2 667 asyncronously. DDR2 800 asyncronous to the FSB is always faster than DDR2 533...

Hello, Do you let your system build by ZipZoomFly? If not you'll have to mount the stock heatsink yourself too. If you don't feel comfortable mounting CPU heatsinks, i can recommend the Scythe Mine cooler. It has a clip design which makes it very easy to mount it, just clip it into the socket...

Hi, You can be 99.9% certain that Avivo will NOT give you any advantage on transcoding files. Avivo unloads processing from the CPU to the GPU for certain types of video files (e.g. MPEG4) while watching them, not more not less. Cool and stable, yes it will. Quiet - you may want to invest...

Hi, In short, no. A P945 chipset board might be more interesting, since these boards are alot cheaper than 965. They "limit" you to DDR2 667 memory - but performance doesn't differ much between DDR2 667 and DDR2 800 in real world applications. Additionally P945 is not so overclocking friendly...

Hi, i don't know if these prices are representative. Corsair Kingston but reading through the reviews, you can't get wrong with the Corsair memory which is considerably cheaper. I think none of these two will let you down. But investing so much money into memory (Kingston) is a really bad...

Hi, Yes and no :) Since you want to OC go for DDR2 800. If you get DDR2 533 your memory will most likely limit your overclocking potential. Why? Since you can only overclock the Core2Duo by raising the FSB. When raising the FSB the memory gets overclocked also. You can avoid that by setting...

Hi, since you don't, one of these boards should fulfill your needs if you go Core2Duo: ECS P965T-A GIGABYTE GA-945P-S3 GIGABYTE GA-965P-S3 since you don't intend to overclock DDR2 667 is fine - DDR2 533 costs virtually the same anyway, so there is no point in getting 533 - e.g. CORSAIR VALUE...

Hi, this isn't answerable in general. It depends on two factors, the chipset of your intended motherboard and if you want to overclock or not. If you want to overclock, get DDR2 800. These ensures that memory will not limit your overclocking intentions. If you don't want to overclock: If you...

Hi, somehow this doesn't fit. A fast CPU, pricey MB, slow memory and slow graphics card. What do you want to use this system for? If its for gaming, this is what i would recommend: the same CPU, a "cheap" MB, normal memory and a good graphics card. e.g. a reasonalbe priced 965 chipset...

Hi, Since you do mainly video editing/conversion the CPU will be the most important part in your system, it'll affect editing/conversion speed the most. this is what I would build with your budget: Core2Duo E6600 - you'll need a real powerful CPU. Motherboard - not that important if you're...