Recent content by Sirlaughalot87

"shameless bump"

quick bump for new question! Could anyone of you recommend a good motherboard for this build? aside from the MSI Zilent board i found?

the thing is that if i keep my 1950pro, my parents will be GPU-less and i highly doubt that they will agree on me buying a better card then thier age old Geforce 2 MX 64 mb so either i take my damaged 6800 Ultra; put in my AGP board one more time until the "next" gen comes which for Nvidias sake...

umm...can you even install drivers that arent WHQL in 64-bit?

AHH! the force is too strong! i must resist the temptetion of buying a card i won´t really need! besides...the RV770 is just around the corner and as i will have even more cash then...MUHAHAHA! all shall tremble before me!

But why are the market going the "multi" GPU way! I don´t want to use bad scaling tech as SLI or Crossfire, i want ONE card, i don´t want two of those energy leechers in my case, i don´t want two cards that can malfunction; One card is more then enough...as it should be.

hmm...now you done it...if i call of my new GPU buy and stick with my 1950 i could just wait out the new generation of GPUs and see if anything is worthwhile and in my pricerange; i just hope that ATi and Nvidia continue with the battle of the mid section...GPUs are really affordable for a...

Now i have one final problem with my build, i see that most of you are recomending/using the P35 chipset and since my build would use a Nvidia 750i chipset(PCI-e 2.0)but loaded with SLI options which i won´t really use, i´m wondering if it exists a p35 motherboard with PCI-e 2.0 on it? I know...

well...the Gigabyte 8800GT 512mb is 259.89 $ and the Sapphire 3870 512mb "lite" retail is 228.64$..the Gigabyte 9600 GT 512MB is 226.99 $ so the real reason seems to be just as you say price vs performance Considering those prices...the Gigabyte 8800GTS 512mb is 402.99 $ and since a 8800GT...

Your assumption is correct, I will be using Vista 64-bit for that extra gigabyte of memory(4GBftw!) and my resolution of choose depends on what i am playing... With the Total War games it tends to be 1600x1200 and with FPS games i play at 1024x768 just because my monitor has 100 sweet hertz...

hello! i am planning too upgrade my Ati Radeon 1950pro to the more modern(DirectX10:) 3870 but now im having second thoughts, after readong up on the "status" of the 3870 it seems that it isen´t top in the middle segment anymore; not to say that its bad but from what i read at THG the 3870...

Okay..now i think i have another "problem"...apperently the Radeon 3870 is not all that great anymore with the release of the 9600s and those 9800GTX cards sure look like a fine performance take, my only trouble with the 9800GTX is that it would practicly double my GPU budget and i wonder if its...

I really wonder what go go wrong, every peice of hardware i have has 64-bit drivers, are you saying that those drivers are not working? The only "real" trouble i might run into is that some of my games might not work in 64-bit but i assume that ever game that is made after the realease of...

okay then, i have changed the 1066 to 800 mhz memory but i´m just curious; why is 3.6 GHZ the sweet spot? and another thing...is it hard to reach that overclock? So what do you guys think about Vista 64-bit then? worth the extra hassle?

really? I thought that the newer cards NEEDS PCI-e 2.0 to function...so they are backwards compatiable? About the memory..i just thought that speed is good, even if i would have to change the voltage from 1.8v to 2.1v for those memory sticks, so its as i have learnt? the performance gain...