My new computer, almost complete, help

**Praetor** · 12-24-2005, 02:56 AM

Decent PSU, nothign fancy, their X-Connect 500W is superior

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I want to buy the crossfire ready ati chipset motherboard,
-Asus A8R-MVP ($140)

That board kicks so much ass!!

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soon i can get the crossfire edition video card to make crossfire, right?

Well as long as u have a master card you'll be ok

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I am thinking of getting FX-55 or x2 4800 for $999

Between them id get the X2 and not the 4800, either the 4200 or 4400 but thats me

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At the moment Asus only has 1 model of mobo that supports crossfire. Right now crossfire has bugs so SLI is better as of now, eventually crossfire will catch up..in about 1/2 year, but SLI is still be better with direct x 9 cards. We will see what happens once directx10 is released but as of now SLI is much better because of less glitches, higher fps, better benchmarks, and the cards avaliable for Nvidia right now are on top. CPU wise for gaming (serious gaming) go with fx-55, but only after fx-60 is released because the price will drop. Aside from that you can get a Audigy 2 ZS, wont much much of a difference in your games but you will be able to have access to 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound.

Where are u getting this info?

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Omg why? A nice x2 3800+ or a cheaper single core San Diego will get the job done and you won't even tell the difference without benchmarking it.

Cuz there are games that will break a 3800 (ok not break it, but you can feel it getting pushed)

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maybe he goes to lan parties? and maybe he dont want a 40 pound moniter and they look cooler it doesnt seem like money is much of an object for him

1. Looks are subjective
2. Hehe you can sit with your pretty LCD, ill have a pretty picture on the screen

Hawk16 · 12-24-2005, 03:08 AM

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Decent PSU, nothign fancy, their X-Connect 500W is superior

isnt the X2 even better then that?

**Praetor** · 12-24-2005, 03:14 AM

I fail to see what X2 has to do witht he PSU

Charles_Lee · 01-04-2006, 11:27 PM

thanks, umm,. i bought everything except the motherboard and a cpu...
help??

12-24-2005, 03:14 AM	#13 (permalink)
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01-04-2006, 11:27 PM	#14 (permalink)
Charles_Lee Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 703	thanks, umm,. i bought everything except the motherboard and a cpu... help?? __________________ Opteron 165 Dual Core Cpu 1.8Ghz (oc'ed to 2.4Ghz) Asus A8R-MVP Socket 939 Motherboard Radeon X850 XT Platinum / 256MB GDDR3 / PCI Express Video Card Antec Neo He 500 power supply Western Digital / Raptor / 74GB / 10K / 8MB / SATA-150 Hard Drive OCZ PC-3200 DDR400 Platinum Edition 2GB(2X1024MB) Dual Channel Memory Samsung 19' lcd monitor with DIV support

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