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1000-1200 dollars for a system

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Gloryfieldzi

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It will be used in college, building this for a friend.

The video card will be some sort of ATI video card for sure, not a Nvidia.
I am thinking about a 9800Pro AIW or a x700 pro or a x800xl

80 Gig WD 8mb cache 60 bucks from newegg

the motherboard would be pci express if getting x800xl, and it should have onboard sound

so I need suggestions in:
CPU
MB
Ram (1 gig, but I dont know which to get)
Case + Powersupply
Video Card
 
see my reply here

but it has a **GASP** Nvidia card...:roll:

this allows him to upgrade to 2 video cards later on, something you cant do with ATI.

i never understood why people say "i dont want nvidia" or ati..or whatever. thats like going to a boxing match with 1 hand tied behind your back, why would someone CHOOSE to limit themselves? i just dont get it, both companies make quality products.
 
The X800XL is damn close to the 6800GT, as in it's a +/- 5% differential for most games. The clincher for the card is that it's $100 less than the 6800GT, which is supposed to be its direct competitor.

That said, I'm not convinced of the glories of SLI just yet; if they had written software to automatically use one type of SLI or the other, then it would be cool. As it is, they have to write individual support for each game before it'll work with SLI; from what I've read, systems that have 2 video cards in an SLI-enabled system playing a non-SLI enabled game will actually run a bit slower than one card by itself. Don't know if it's true, and might try to find the link later on... but there you go.

That said: gloryfieldzi, don't be a fanboy. It only hurts you in the long run if the company you're against puts out something that beats the competition.

I'm assuming this would be a gaming rig? Go AMD, probably a 3000+ Winchester. Motherboard, Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9? Decent feature set, not too expensive.

Other than that, I'm sure other people will be along to give you more informed decisions shortly.
 
Yea, well if I get him an nvidia card it won't be 6800 GT it's out of budge, it will be a 6600 GT. Anyways, I can get him AMD 64 3000, that motherboard, a 6600 GT, 1 gig of ram and other stuff for under 1000? the other 200 is reserved for a LCD
 
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