Need Help

[Kaizen]

     well i sold my gaming desktop 2 weeks now and i need ur help deciding what i should build this tower with

my current taughts

a64 3500<venice core>
1 gig,  i was gonna go back with OCZ .any reccomendations?
the hardives already done 2 x 200 gig sata barracuda seagate
and well drives ..dvr 109s piooners

the motherboard was thinking of goin with the Msi Neo 4 Platinum or Sli Dfi board ..recomendations plz
and Graphics card
well i could afford a 7800gtx but i need recommendations i had  x800xt in the system before
i dont want this system to be toexpesnive so yeah thats it
i appreciate your help fellow gatters

[TrinireturnofGamez]

 buy an x700 or 6600 for 100 us   and wait 6-8  months for the R520 and 7800 to drop in price , you'll save more money than the  value of the x700 and have alot more options to choose from .
  OCZ ram for what ? overclocking ?  i wouldn't trust anything else but OCZ to do high FSBs at 1:1 ratio , but for normal use corsair , GEIL and crucial are fine .
    DFI motherboard for overclocking definately , they are legendary in their bios options and regular updates , a good board will reach 400mhz FSB ,  but for a budget board the MSI is nice.. also there is a budget DFI board going for 100 us  with much better overclockability than the msi .

[Kaizen]

well yeah For Oc ...Ocz
heads up Trini will check out the dfi's if u have one in particular to recommend feel free to say model or send link hmm the x700 an thing ill definetly check the performance sheets
thanx

[TrinireturnofGamez]

an x700 non pro will pull of 6500 3dmark 2003 , nothing to brag about but still enough for al lthe games out right now ,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813136160 << DFI budget overclockers board .

http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=3510&CATEGORY_TYPE=MB&SITE=US

[W1nTry]

You can look at some Patriot RAM, they got PC3200 2-2-2-5 1T or 2-3-2-5 1T at reasonable prices plus the lower latency of the two is TCCD memory so its good stuff. Its also cheaper than the OCZ. As for mobos, i'd advise you to go with the DFI Lanparty or an Abit Fatal1ty board f (LOOK FOR AN SLI board since the new drivers should eliminate need to get totally identical cards so u can upgrade later on) for ur venice core baby. The Video is a bit of a quandry though... sure u could but the 7800GTX... but Trini is right and in a few months ATI will release their offering and prices across the board should drop a bit. But hey if u have the cash by all means, like yuhself, in the end is only yuhself yuh have to please.

[Kaizen]

i see a x800pro for 200 in a store but if is anything i will jus buy the x700
the patriot never really looked at them i love ocz ..but it cheaper and that good will look on new egg
but i was wondering what cores it have better than venice ?
if that is the case for the sli 2 x 6200 lol like i plan to do with my work system
thx for the taughts wil study the patriot

[TrinireturnofGamez]

 venice is the best core out , SSE3 and silicon techniques that boost clock speeds by 15% , the Athlon FX 57 is a venice core with a pile of cache added .

[W1nTry]

Otherwise known as a San Diego Core trini.

[Kaizen]

ok well then stickin to the venice 3500 cant afford a 4000 lol
now researchin this sli stuff  ey how soon it gonna be official you could use any nvidia pci - e to sli?

[Beomagi]

In 7-8 months, you'll prolly be looking at some new games anyway. The middle of the road vidcard from 3 years ago, the 9500 is still usable for most games. you get a top end card now like the 7800 you'll be fine. Wait a while for it to drop a little, but 7-8 months?

Cut back on the proc if you must, and for ram, dont bother with cas 2 honesly there's no noticable difference (just dont bother with any memory with latencies at 4) and you pay a huge premium. $80 for a gig.

[cdx2k1]

I'd lose that extra 200GB and Burner.You really only need 1 burner>What u going to do with the second one?lol.Save the extra money and use it for something else.As for the GTX..i'd go for it one time and done..wait 6-8 months?Shit dais REAL WAITING HOMIE.I aint have that kinda patience.

[Kaizen]

>.> 2 burners
classified info <pirat...e> shhhh losing transmission ahhh lol
well the pc is on its way just need to finalize the graph card and ram
the processor is here but the mobo still thinkin as wellon that

[trinigamer]

Anandtech just did a roundup of nforce boards. The Epox looks good.:

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2465&p=1

[W1nTry]

Well thats what I have an Epox, although to be honest it didn't work right out of the box... still not sure why it just started to work, but I do suspect something to do with the dimm slots I was using at the time... and well its not the prettiest board, BUT it does do nice things like make the AGP port 1 port higher than normally so u have no PCI slot directly below ur AGP (even though it has the full 5 PCI ports) so u can use a dual slot cooling solution video card without losing PCI slots.