Building a new PC.

[jacktesterson]

Originally posted by: Ichigo
You're being stubborn.

Ignore the technical talk and go by benchmarks and see which cards win. 4870x2 is better in games that don't scale well with crossfire. SLI GTX 260's beat Crossfire 4870 1GB's in certain games (Crysis comes to mind). You can overclock *any* card. There are good reasons to go Crossfire with 4870's, but yours aren't.

For that price, you want 4GB of RAM. You can find DDR2-1000 4GB kits for cheaper on NCIX. I'm in Canada too, I use the same sites you do.

For all the money you're putting into this, you can buy a single WD Black 640GB and get better performance.

Onboard sound (Realtek and HD Azalia) can be plugged into the front of most cases and 5.25" bays. Also, onboard sound has come a long way since the crap in your current motherboard. Give it a chance before subscribing to Creative's crap. I have an X-Fi. It's not worth it.

You don't like Vista? You'll like XP 64 less. Stick with XP 32-bit if you must, especially if you're using 2GB of RAM anyway.

Future proofing is a moot point with Nehalem releasing and Deneb coming soon as well. Your highest upgrades are going to be, for the most part, what's out now. Not to say that it won't perform admirably, but you'll be able to upgrade the GPU's at best. That's fine since they're the most important component in a gaming computer, but don't expect much better than what you're buying right now.

everything this guy said + You dont need that Power supply.

the Seasonic 650 watt PSU (http://www.ncix.com/products/i...ctronics&promoid=1130) will run that system just fine and dandy

I too vote for the 4870x2

and 4gb of ram

and Vista 64.

wow, we really dont get a long.

Sorry bud. your pc, not mine

 

[harobikes333]

Originally posted by: smithrwon
Yeah you might as well go for Vista 64 bit. P182 is reasonably silent.

I have both 64bit vista and the P182.

64 bit is nice but if you have any digital camera that is a year or two old then the drivers won't be available/ you can charge the camera if it's a rechargable battery kind but you can't transfer pictures. You need to just get a multi media reader and you're set.

the P182= If you get this case. get a module PSU It's a MUSTTTT. IMO anyway...

also, the case doesn't have the most space... IMO .. I've built computers in a 60 dollar case that had more room. but then again they weren't as heavy duty tho.

The case is HEAVY so if you want to bring it to a buddies house ever for fun to play on a LAN or something.. forget about it lol.

It overall is pretty quiet. Not amazing. but pretty quiet i guess.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: harobikes333

Originally posted by: smithrwon
Yeah you might as well go for Vista 64 bit. P182 is reasonably silent.

I have both 64bit vista and the P182.

64 bit is nice but if you have any digital camera that is a year or two old then the drivers won't be available/ you can charge the camera if it's a rechargable battery kind but you can't transfer pictures. You need to just get a multi media reader and you're set.

the P182= If you get this case. get a module PSU It's a MUSTTTT. IMO anyway...

also, the case doesn't have the most space... IMO .. I've built computers in a 60 dollar case that had more room. but then again they weren't as heavy duty tho.

The case is HEAVY so if you want to bring it to a buddies house ever for fun to play on a LAN or something.. forget about it lol.

It overall is pretty quiet. Not amazing. but pretty quiet i guess.

What brand are you having problems with? I've been able to find drivers fine.


OP: why bother making a thread if you don't really care to listen to advice?