Check out my pc's and lmk what u think and what else i should do

[djdevynator]

ya iv always liked Asus and Gigabyte, but ill be looking at more than those to c what else is out there. like here are two iv been looking at:

Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail at Newegg.com

and

ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail at Newegg.com

and then get a Dual-Core CPU

 

[bball4life]

ya iv always liked Asus and Gigabyte, but ill be looking at more than Asus. like here are two iv been looking at:

Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail at Newegg.com

and

ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail at Newegg.com

Well I would go with the asus but it does cost twice as much so it is a little hard to compare.

 

[djdevynator]

ya, but one thing i like about the Gigabyte is that it has dual vga slots.

 

[PC eye]

ya, but one thing i like about the Gigabyte is that it has dual vga slots.

Are you referring to SLI? That would be a board with two PCI-Express slots one being the PCI-E 16x for single card use.

 

[djdevynator]

ya its SLI. i could run dual graphics cards.

 

[bball4life]

ya, but one thing i like about the Gigabyte is that it has dual vga slots.

Both boards are sli...

 

[djdevynator]

o ya, i completely missed that.

 

[PC eye]

Most of the newer boards out by both Asus and MSI are SLI unless the model has the ATI chipset on it. The nForce 4 is a great work horse for gaming according to many reviews. For Crossfire however you would need the ATI chipset for that. The room for the twin PCI-E cards comes at the loss of the pci expansion slots with many boards now only having two slots. The better models have the three slots available. That can help when XP's resource sharing becomes a problem where you then have to move a sound card around.

 

[djdevynator]

ya, with the new pc im gunna run dual graphics cards.

 

[djdevynator]

system info and game screenshots now up

 

[djdevynator]

My ram heat spreaders(taken with phone):

posted it here cause i cant post anymore pics on first page

 

[PC eye]

Those are usually called heat spreaders. You will see that in vendors' descriptions on memory often. But those will help when gaming heavily.

 

[djdevynator]

ya i got them at the computer fair for only 3 buck each

 

[PC eye]

You can also get some memory as well as card(video, sound) and drive coolers from 3rd party sources. Just how good many of those are can be quite debatable at times however. Many seem to be gimics just to sell something.

 

[djdevynator]

ya, i just put a bigger heatsink on my graphics card, but not one on my sound card

 

[PC eye]

Hope that works out well there. You can even go the length to get a water cooler for graphics cards alone. Personally I'm looking to get into another case with a dual 120mm fan setup since the case is in a more enclosed space with a wall only a few inches away from the rear of the case itself. That hinders exhaust where I keep the side cover off even in an air conditioned room. The ThermalTake model can be seen at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133147

 

[djdevynator]

ya iv seen the liquid coolers for graphics cards, i almost got a whole liquid cooling system. then i decided to wait till i get a new pc to go liquid.

 

[djdevynator]

heres a screenshot of Need for Speed Most Wanted that i just took. Looks blurry because of speed blur.

 

[djdevynator]

screenshot of GTI Racing playing on my Dell 2400:

 

[djdevynator]

more pics up on first page