1st time builder

asdfguy

asdfguy

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I'm looking to build a computer for the first time and I'm having trouble understanding the whole "northbridge/southbridge - SLI - AGP - Graphics Card - PCIe X 1 PCIe X16" thing.

For instance on newegg:

"ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard"

I understand the ASUS, socket 939, AMD & Motherboard part. Does the rest descibe a video card? I'm trying here, but it's not working...

From what I read here and there, certain things only work with certian other things....

The only thing i can tell you for certian is that I think I want the AMD X2 4400 and I know AMD will only support DDR.

Any tips would be great...Thanks
 
NVIDIA is the company who wrote the BIOS firmware, that firmware being nForce4.

SLI means that teh BIOS can support twin video cards in SLI mode (if you aren't going to buy two video cards either now or in the future, then don't bother getting the SLI version of thise motherboard).

ATX is the motherboard design format-- it will fit into nay ATX Case and any ATX power supply will power it (as long as hte PSU meets minimum power requirements).

AMD is a little redundant, since only AMD makes 939 pin processors.
 
the pci and pcie refers to peripheral components you add on, such as a sound or video card, modem, etc. pcie is, well, i wont say relatively new, but youll only really find one slot on most mobos, and if you got a video card for it, it would perform better, but is somewhat more expensive.
 
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