Praetor

One OR the other. I'd reccomend the compound.

Depends how you want to config your drives (i.e., two optical drives on one channel or hdd-optical drive configuration).

Yeah they will work -- but depending on the task they may not work well (i.e., DVD-DVD OTF copying with them on the same channel)

Thermal compound is much more effective

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Meraxus

Well I got the computer up and running today. Let me tell you I love it Thanks for all your help guys and now that I know how to build a comp it will be easier next time

Praetor

See? It wasnt so bad after all!

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Viper_86

Hey man...not a bad machine,unless that is ur a big time gamer like myself who is going all out on top of the line stuff :-). i highky recommend the x800 xt platinum if u truely want the most gaming power out of ur pc. the x800 xt platinum isnt out yet but the x800 pro is. as for the x800 pro vs the nvidia 5800...go with the x800! 1st of all the x800 gives u better gaming performance at higher resolutions, which is good, in my opinion anyway coz it looks much better. the nvidia also uses a ton more power...using i think around 400-450 watt power supply and is much more demanding of ur machine, as for the x800, it only uses a 350 watt power supply, same as the radeon 9800 pro and xt. and the last thing i thot i might mention is ur processor, once again if u rnt a gamer then dont worry bout it, but i recommend an amd athalon over p4's any day! especially 4 games. the amd athalon 3800 is top of the line if ur willing to spend 800 bux on one piece of hardware...as for myself im going down 2 levels to a 3200, which is a great prrcessor, barely below the 3400. so theres some things to think about and if u rnt a gamer then sry for wasting ur time :-)

Praetor

I'm not a rich-kid. I buy my own stuff

You seem likeyou know what you're talking about in general,why such a ridiculous comparison?

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Viper_86

[quote=72montecarlo]Well graphics card wise the Nvidia 6800 ultra performs just as well as the ati Radeon x800 in benchmark testing.QUOTE]

no way man, the x800 blew the 6800 away!...way better at higer resolutions and way less power required and less demanding of ur pc...still a very good card none the less...but i recommend the x800 over the 6800 anyday!

Viper_86

haha sry i meant the 6800

Viper_86

im no rich kid either...im just saving up for this computer that im gonan buy...right now im not even half way but i will b there after a couple more paychecks. im not very satisfied with 2nd rate computers... i have my standards set way up high..dont like to settle for much less computer-wise.

Praetor

In that case id reccomend you check again. The 6800 series is superior card -- even without resorting to fanboyism. Now if you are comparing the X800XT to the GF6800 -- well no shit, you're comparing the top end card to the low end one ... no doubt the X800XT would win.

It is an interesting thing to note that while the X800 is a great series, the X600 and X300 series both can be kicked around by a stock 9800. It's quite remarkable also that ATi decided to make a 64bit version of the X300; with the 9200SE that made sense kind of and it filled a very good niche of subbudget card but with the new flagship "X" series, they should have left the budget cards with at least a 128bit interface.

Now if I understand the nVidia product line well enough, they've got the baseline bring the 6800 followed by the 6800GT and 6800Ultra and their various variants. Note that the top end of the previous generation (59x0 series) doesnt kick the 6800 and 6800GT series around like a ragdoll.

This is a good thing that nVidia has done: they've provided developers with a very solid platform from which to base their games off. COnsider the GFX series, that was a mild success only because of the "support" the GFX5200 offered for DX9 but it lacked major in final overal performance. Now with the baseline 6800, "low performance" by our standards today and probably for the next 8-12 months) will not be the case -- even if it is, the baseline 6800 will outlive its counterpart the X300 by a large margin and will probably outlive even the X600. Does this mean that developers-hardware companies have gotten a working alliance to raise prises? Maybe, but there will always eb budget oriented cards --- and at least now there is an option where those budget cards from a given series arent put to shame by the previous generation of cards (consider that the GF4MX beat the GFX5200 in many benchmarks as well as the Radeon8500 beating the Radeon9000 all over)

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Viper_86

While the Geforce 6800 is a great card, any of the x800 series outperforms the 6800, look at the benchmarks. the 6800 may be better with low resolution, tell me wut gamer uses 800X600 unless they have to. the x800 performs better at high resolutions, which is great!