Recent content by shrewd

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    Upgrade Question

    two of them http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814145121 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814124114
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    BEST Price/Performance OCing RAM for Ultra-D?

    you allready have ram in your post , and its very good ram BTW I hope your not planning on gaming with the specs you posted. If you are why whould you go with the DFI mobo and then turn around and get that SAPPHIRE x800GTO2 , Go get a 7800 gt . And if you do game and play BF2 or Fear you might...
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    How big of a power supply do I need to run my new system?

    antec 500 watt smart power will work fine. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103937
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    AMD Processor Question

    What would be the advantage in getting the AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego over the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice or even the AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice? I see that two are running @ 2.2 GHz and the 3000 is @ 1.8 GHz ,I also see that the 3700 is a 1Mb Cache.Price break down | 3700 sand = $268.01...
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    Another first build. *Good Bad? Tell me anyway!*

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814153018
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    Another first build. *Good Bad? Tell me anyway!*

    LMFAO , you have also waited a year I can buy a current $500 card in a year for $100 but whats the point , So I can sit around for a year and get pissed because I cant play the games I want Because I was a cheap a$$. NO WAY MAN
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    Another first build. *Good Bad? Tell me anyway!*

    did you say cheaper ram? are you smoking crack ? If you're going to play BF2 or Fear you will want the extra ram for sure go with 2 x 1gb sticks of OCZ Platinum Series 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory. This Ram does not fail.
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    Looking for a Sli motherboard

    you might want to check the MSI website , it says 4000 max my bad I see it gos up to CPU ? Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon? 64FX/64 processor (Socket 939) ? Supports 3000+ (D0), 3200+ (D0), 3500+, 3800+, 4000+, FX53 and FX55 But I dont see the support the 57
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    Looking for a Sli motherboard

    I looked at that board side by side with the asus board , Msi was looking good till I saw the asus board. The asus has better support for expansion on Amd Processors , where as the Msi board only supported up too the 4000 series. thanx though
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    Looking for a Sli motherboard

    This looks like the winner http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131517
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    Looking for a Sli motherboard

    I am not going to run the new system over stock speed, so I am looking for a SLI mobo that will run a Amd dual core / 7800 gt / 2 gigs Ocz Platinum. any help here would be great , thanx.
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    What Ram should I go with ?

    I am setting up for my new rig, I 'm caught between one gig or two. I see the CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual going for $123, But is this enough or should I use two gigs? I 'm a gamer and I like to run more then one application at a time I hate...
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    First Build , Need help with the components to use

    I am not sure what kind of mobo I would get for free, but its worth a look.I really like the DFI board though.Dont need BF2 its in the cd tray as I write this :) I looked at the dual cores, thought about them but then I backed off.Not the money so much as I dont really do much multitasking.Not...
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    First Build , Need help with the components to use

    what do you mean, Are you talking about AMD vrs Intel ?