My first build

thejando said:
As for an operating system, my friend has Windows 7 Ultimate that he's going to let me use.
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You do realize that it is illegal to install an operating system to more than one PC without a volume license correct? And microsoft does not sell ultimate under a volume license, plus a volume license holder must own any computer it is installed to.
 
Joh: i'd check out these (this, this, and this).

Obviouslly I don't know a whole lot about the differences between cards, but when I was reading for my own build Overclocker's forum was killing the XFX cards, although I was mostly looking at 5870s. I linked the Asus eah as the eah5870 Got awesome reviews pretty much across the board. The one exception was that Hardware Canucks weren't able to OC their card as much as they wanted, but even they gave the card a very positive review. I bought the Asus eah and love it, although I don't have anything to compare to.
 
bomberboysk said:
You do realize that it is illegal to install an operating system to more than one PC without a volume license correct? And microsoft does not sell ultimate under a volume license, plus a volume license holder must own any computer it is installed to.
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No... really nice bit of info to know, thanks for that. So I guess I do need to buy Windows 7... poop.
 
BillOhio said:
Obviouslly I don't know a whole lot about the differences between cards, but when I was reading for my own build Overclocker's forum was killing the XFX cards, although I was mostly looking at 5870s. I linked the Asus eah as the eah5870 Got awesome reviews pretty much across the board. The one exception was that Hardware Canucks weren't able to OC their card as much as they wanted, but even they gave the card a very positive review. I bought the Asus eah and love it, although I don't have anything to compare to.
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At this point in time i would suggest the GTX 460, and wait to go with any of ATI's offerings until at least the 6000 series comes out. And yeah, XFX has pretty terrible customer support for their graphics cards, but their PSU support is top notch in my experience.

Also, as far as overclocking, i hate when reviewers judge a card by how well it clocks. The model of the card does not dictate how well it will overclock, every card will overclock differently. You could get a stellar OCing one, or one that won't overclock worth a damn.
 
bomberboysk said:
You could get a stellar OCing one, or one that won't overclock worth a damn.
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This is exactly what Hardware Canucks said in their review.

The overclocking consideration may be a little more relevant on that particular card though, as you're paying a small premium to be able to tweak the voltage for the sake of clocking. If you can't especially OC the card, it kind defeats the purpose of what you're paying extra for.
 
BillOhio said:
This is exactly what Hardware Canucks said in their review.

The overclocking consideration may be a little more relevant on that particular card though, as you're paying a small premium to be able to tweak the voltage for the sake of clocking. If you can't especially OC the card, it kind defeats the purpose of what you're paying extra for.
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You can tweak the voltage on any reference card. You arent guaranteed to get any better clocks by paying more for a card, i've had a GTX 285 vanilla and a GTX 285 SSC(my current card), and the vanilla overclocked quite a bit better than my SSC.
thejando said:
I don't see where I can save 10 dollars?
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Combo deals:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.437504.11-119-215
 
bomberboysk said:
At this point in time i would suggest the GTX 460, and wait to go with any of ATI's offerings until at least the 6000 series comes out.
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yeah i would agree, especially seeing as how sli isn't really a planned thing. and if you do win some money off of the lottery and decide to sli in the future, you would always do some things to run sli on that board... can't really discuss here though :o
 
BillOhio said:
Yes... but this one sais 'Voltage Tweak' right on the box... If that's not worth $25 bucks I don't know what is.
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Like i said, any reference card supports voltage tweaking via software such as MSI afterburner, Asus just advertises that to charge more, although asus puts some nice coolers on their cards.
 
bomberboysk said:
Like i said, any reference card supports voltage tweaking via software such as MSI afterburner, Asus just advertises that to charge more, although asus puts some nice coolers on their cards.
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the gigabyte i linked has a dual fan cooler and is cheaper.

EDIT: looks like the cooling setup doesn't do much. nevermind :P

although it does give a much quieter card fan wise.
 
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bomberboysk said:
although asus puts some nice coolers on their cards.
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Yeah... I'm goofing on the labelling... but the big fan and cooling solution is the actual attraction I think. Afterburner apparently won't work here, but SmartDoctor does. Afterburner seems to be more popular, but ignorance is bliss as I've only used SmartDoctor and don't have any complaints.
 
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