Recent content by phooka

Hey all, I'm placing my order now and am a bit sketchy about this board. It has a few questionable reviews. Does anyone have another in mind that would be suitable. Also, the power supply is now out of stock [I knew I should have ordered it sooner.] Any ideas on that? If I do go with that...

Also, A friend of mine mentioned that DDR3 RAM would be beneficial. Any ideas on that? Could I upgrade to DDR3 with this Motherboard if I wanted to later? edit::In doing some research it looks like I won't see a whole lot of boost in performance with DDR3. I think I'll stick to DDR2

Well OK, I don't need GTA4 to run in the highest settings but I would like it to look good. Anyone else have thoughts on the ATI vs. GeForce GPUs? I'm pretty close to ordering now.

And yea, I know I should ditch the IDE drives, It's just about backing them up first. That will be done soon :)

I really appreciate all of you guys' help. I'll be processing a lot of audio which is nothing compared to video rendering and from what i've read a quad core processor isn't really necessary. If prices for Intel chips are going to drop that drastically then I can wait a month.

yea, but that only has 2 SATA plugs. I would like to think I'll get more than 2 SATA drives.

Well I am kinda partial to GeForce over ATI though. Do I really need to spend that much on a PSU? I was thinking around $30 for something like that. 500W is good though.

What about for Fallout 3 and stuff like that? I've never heard of Zotac, Are they good? Why do you think that is overkill for CPU & video card? I would like to be able to play other games in the future too of course.

I don't plan on upgrading the monitor soon. A higher resolution would be great but not essential.

I have 3 IDE drives but also own an external enclosure and don't mind swapping a bit. One IDE channel is fine. As for gaming . . 1280 x 1024 would be fine.

OK, so I really like to play FPS's and produce music. I already have a monitor, CD/DVD burner, a great soundcard, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and some IDE drives I would still like to use. So basically I need a Case, Power Supply, Motherboard, Processor, RAM & Video Card. I do want to start...