$2k gaming rig. Have at it!!

[dannyaa]

Yeah rugger, I agree. So firebird dude, drop the DDR2 & SLI requirement. Not that they are bad, but honestly, they just aren't that important. PCI-E, is, however, as that will be the standard of new graphics cards when you want to swap a new GPU in. But like I said before, in 3 years it won't be as easy as simply swapping one or two things out. Tech is just changing too much right now. Lots of new formats are coming about, in 3 years you'll probably just have to swap it out anyway. Right now, DDR2 and SLI probably just aren't worth it. You will do best with DDR & a single, high-end GPU, or as another suggested, the next generation is already coming out in the late fall. You could go with that ATI800XL to tide you over, sell it on ebay/to a friend at the end of the year, and upgrade to a high-end GPU on this next generation.

You will need to let us know about gaming focus VS other uses (ie AMD vs Intel) and about whether or not you are OC'ing.

Mozz, yeah, I do not know much about DDR2 at all. Thanks for that info. I would say 1GB is a must for a new power system though. A handful of new games really do take advantage of the extra RAM and I have seen recommend specs of 1GB with a minimum of 512. Future games definetly will, and even the ones that don't, will make full use of the 512. In those cases, it is nice to have a little extra since most like to run anti-virus, spyware, IMing, FRAPS, mobomonitor, or other utilities in the background... or STEAM if you are playing HL2 which eats up 50mb RAM right there. Also, for a number of non-gaming purposes the 1GB is important as you know.

Mozz, useless comments and joking around are great and help keep the forum fun. I agree, and hope you keep them coming I wasn't saying anything about you or anyone in particular. I did however feel dissapointed that firebird posted and the first 3 comments to him were completely useless, and even the useful one didn't really fully address his question. Those comments are great, as long as they are supplemental to actual helpful information in a post, or followed by a "no but seriously", or if others have already posted helpful info. But not when they are the only answers someone recieves.


Anyway, firebird let us know whats up. We hope you are still reading this!


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[Rugger]

If i was going to edit, then I would be a little sneaky and uncheck the "mark as edited" box.

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[Rugger]

I'm gonna be pissed if he isn't! 😡 I spent a good bit of time with those posts!

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[mozzartusm]

I think that I am one of if not the only non-gamer on here. I didnt know that games had become that memory intensive.

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[dannyaa]

haha, its ok... it is probably a GOOD thing to be a non-gamer, games can suck way too much time. Not that I would know or anything...


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[jmwpom3]

I really like the ASUS A8N-delux board....
the lack of DDR2 really doesn't come accross as a negative for me when you consider the price point advantage. The PC3200 ram at 400mhz and dual channel does a pretty good job at quite a bit less. You get more bandwidth even if you use the right parings(4x 512 or 2x1024 or 4x1024). Whatever, it's very comparable (if not faster) at a far better price for the same amount of memory.
Get the SLI board with one vid card (you can add another later when/if more games start supporting it). Alot of the games run better with the single card than with two with the SLI dissabled (when you can't use it). The second card is really only useful when you have everything at it's absolute highest settings/resolutions. Even then, so far the games are still CPU limited. So, unless you have the FX-55, the CPU will not be fast enough to make full use of both GPU's. (there was a really good article on this in the Display/graphics section on the main site)

And yes I know some, if not all, of this has been said already. But, that's my 2 cents.

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[endyen]

You do know that this guy buggered off after his april 21st post. We will not be likely to hear from him again.

 

[georgebeee]

I second that choice of memory

 

[georgebeee]

useless posts are invaluable to this community. I think it adds to the feeling of community which I think is much of the reason this is such a helpful forum.

heck, all I am is a useless post

 

[apesoccer]

u sneaky bast-tid...

use your powers for good...not evil

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[Rugger]

But being good usually isn't as fun!

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