1600.00 TO spend on system.what would you get

[ribbon13]

The opterons because of the K8WE. No production board currently in existance will match this thing. It has two x16 PCIe... only one other board has that (an Iwill which has less features)... all the desktop boards have two x16 slots running at x8. The 6600GT is to get you gaming and still let you afford the other stuff. 2 sticks of CMX512RE-3200LL is a gig...

$118 - Enlight EN-8950
Specs here
$118 at Buy.com

$200 - PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 AG
Specs

$526 - Tyan Thunder K8WE S2895UA2NRF
Tis godly
Hmm. Best price I've seen

$234 - AMD Opteron 244 Retail
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796,00.html
Price drop. Yippee

2x $175 - Corsair CMX512RE-3200LL
http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/xms.html
ZZF beats newegg because of s/h again

The whole point is future-resistance. Cpu speeds are increasing slower nowadays, and soon more and more apps will adopt SMP, because of dual-core hitting mainstream. Thinking investment wise. It's just a thought. Nothing more. A regular desktop would suit you fine. I just like upgrading my system half as often as everyone else, and still pwning them.

 

[SHAGVIRUS]

Doesnt look too much like a gameing rig to me...lol

ya i guess you can look at it that way also..but i rather faster vidcard bundle now than later

 

[ribbon13]

Well, thats the point, once you have it, the only thing you will have to buy for the next 7 years is video cards.

 

[akugami]

Well, I'd disagree. On the AGP front, there is almost no difference between video cards running at 4x vs running it at 8x. What's going to make you think that video cards in the next 3 years will max out the 16x PCI Express bus. I'll be happy if it maxes out PCI Express 8x. This article shows some testing done that shows very minimal gains using AGP 4x vs 8x and there isn't anything to suggest that things are different in the PCI Express front. There is a hardwarezone.com review that showed basically the same thing using a Ti4200 video card.

I do not own an X800 or 6800GT video card in AGP that I can use to test this on in case the current generation of video cards make better use of the AGP 8x bus as opposed to the 4x bus. I definitely don't know how to force the PCI Express Asus A8N-SLI into a forced 4x, 8x, 16x mode or I'd test this myself to see how it performs. If someone knows how to do this, PM me and I'll be glad to test this out whether there is any difference between 4x, 8x and 16x modes for PCIE.

jamesbond007. I absolutely agree Dell computers are catered to the average joe and not built for power users (their gaming lines not withstanding). It's why I recommended 4 of them when my work place had to replace some very old computers. Got them at a real sweet price of about 600 bucks after rebates were factored and a 17" LCD thrown in for good measure. I still think their average computers suck though. And for power gaming, I prefer building my own computer for anything I plan to spend over $1k on.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Posted by Shagvirus
"whats the deal with that raptor drive only 70gig?? whats so great about it?? (been out of the into loop) school me plz.."



Raptor=fast. Use for boot drive. Buy large cheap storage drive. If you only use one drive Raptors don't make sense