hi,
i need to get a temp rig, for office use till i get my gaming rig in Dec... with X38 chipset etc....
the rig is going to be simple,
cpu 80-90$ (e2160/ athlon x2 4400)
Ram- 2GB
HD's- already have.
the problem is the boards...
i'm wondering around these boards, with IGP.
the Gigabyte G33-DS3R & the Gigabyte 69GM-S2H.
the G33 is a better chipset for RAID & it has more potential use in the future with the pynren coming soon. (if i didn't want SLI/CF i'd stay with this borad...)
because i'm using a 1920x1200 screen, the VGA rather important.
G33 has no DVI output, while the 69GM has HDMI & DVI output.
also, the 69GM enables 1024 MB of Shared memory (saw it in the Manual) while i found no evidence for changing the size of the memory of the VGA in the G33, so from what i know in 965 (x3000) laptops is 256 or 384 MB.
also, i saw an article testing the 690G VS the 965G (x3000 vs. x1250).
the ATI was better at games- far cry on 1280 with 30~FPS is nice.... while the intel was round 19~.
but the CPUs in the test was unequal for my opinion- e6420 vs amd 5600! & i think that is what made the difference!
last month intel put out new drivers to the x3100, doubling it's preformance... but i didn't had the change to read the article about it.... nor i seen any comparison between the x3100 & the x1250 with the new drivers....
i'd like to hear your opinions....
if someone who has one of these boards or saw a comparison.... i'd love to hear about it....
thanks!
Dor.
i need to get a temp rig, for office use till i get my gaming rig in Dec... with X38 chipset etc....
the rig is going to be simple,
cpu 80-90$ (e2160/ athlon x2 4400)
Ram- 2GB
HD's- already have.
the problem is the boards...
i'm wondering around these boards, with IGP.
the Gigabyte G33-DS3R & the Gigabyte 69GM-S2H.
the G33 is a better chipset for RAID & it has more potential use in the future with the pynren coming soon. (if i didn't want SLI/CF i'd stay with this borad...)
because i'm using a 1920x1200 screen, the VGA rather important.
G33 has no DVI output, while the 69GM has HDMI & DVI output.
also, the 69GM enables 1024 MB of Shared memory (saw it in the Manual) while i found no evidence for changing the size of the memory of the VGA in the G33, so from what i know in 965 (x3000) laptops is 256 or 384 MB.
also, i saw an article testing the 690G VS the 965G (x3000 vs. x1250).
the ATI was better at games- far cry on 1280 with 30~FPS is nice.... while the intel was round 19~.
but the CPUs in the test was unequal for my opinion- e6420 vs amd 5600! & i think that is what made the difference!
last month intel put out new drivers to the x3100, doubling it's preformance... but i didn't had the change to read the article about it.... nor i seen any comparison between the x3100 & the x1250 with the new drivers....
i'd like to hear your opinions....
if someone who has one of these boards or saw a comparison.... i'd love to hear about it....
thanks!
Dor.