For all you X1900 owners - Quick question

[nib95]

bump

 

[lavaheadache]

Why are you wating money on an SLI board when you clearly don't intend to use it for SLI?

 

[nib95]

Originally posted by: lavaheadache
Why are you wating money on an SLI board when you clearly don't intend to use it for SLI?

Because the SLI Expert board has better features besides just SLI, extra USB ports and so on.
Plus it's only £17 more, and I figure just incase I DO use SLI in future it may be handy.

 

[nib95]

Bump, wanna know what mobo's you X1900 owners have!

 

[Azndude2190]

How much did your rig cost?

 

[gi0rgi0]

Just got an xtx and running on the nforce4 sli board i got free when I bought a 7800gt

 

[nib95]

Originally posted by: Azndude2190
How much did your rig cost?

All this:

Processor Opteron 170 (already bought)

Mobo DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR EXPERT

Memory G.Skill 2 x 1GB DDR PC4000

HDD Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200KS SATA-II 16MB Cache

GPU Sapphire X1900 XTX

Sound Card X-Fi Fatality

Speakers Logitech z-2300

Headset Sennheiser HD 485

Keyboard Saitek Eclipse

Monitor Dell 2405FPW (already bought)

Case CoolerMaster Praetorian 732

DVD Writer/Drive NEC ND4550 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter

PSU Enermax Liberty 500W

CPU Cooler Thermaltake Big Typhoon

Plus more, inc fans, headset etc, will end up costing me a grand total of about £2100 (inc VAT).
Which isnt half bad considering what I'm getting. Take for instance the fact that Dell charge £980 for my monitor alone! I paid £580 for it brand new and with 3 years warranty.

 

[yacoub]

Why not an XT instead of the overpriced XTX?
Why not put that extra $100 towards better speakers (Z-5500s for example)?

 

[VERTIGGO]

yes i noticed, AT's review is down.

I think they also lined up all of the Radeons, and sapphire performed the best over powercolor, so thats up to you.

 

[Bull Dog]

AT's review is back up.

 

[VERTIGGO]

yes, and unfortunately, the A8R32 is winning because of the X1900XT over GTX, and they dont compare with the same graphics on different boards.

 

[nib95]

Originally posted by: VERTIGGO
yes, and unfortunately, the A8R32 is winning because of the X1900XT over GTX, and they dont compare with the same graphics on different boards.

But they do compare the 7800 GTX on SLI boards and the RD580 one, and it seemes the GTX performs a tad better on the RD580.

 

[nib95]

Originally posted by: yacoub
Why not an XT instead of the overpriced XTX?
Why not put that extra $100 towards better speakers (Z-5500s for example)?

Trust me, I really want to, its just in my University dorm, there is literally NO space for these speakers. I was hoping I could squeeze them in, but I just know they will engulf my entire desk, and I really dont want even more wires.

EDIT: Man, you've convinced me mate!

Z-5500's it is! I figure the sub is the biggest component anyway, so its only an extra 3 speakers. One which can go under my monitor, and I'm sure I can squeeze and extra 2 in, after all, thats what University flats are supposed to be like, crmaped and messy

Viva la Z-500!

 

[yacoub]

You could even just not hook up the rear speakers if you want; keep them for when you're home during breaks or whatever. =)

 

[Steelski]

I dont get why OP says there is an issue with the southbridge and the Asus R580 board.
The ULI southbridge is not a bad one by any means and there dont seem to be any issues whatsoever.
Pluss it has the highest overclock at T1 rates ........ever. I wonder what they could have gotten to with t2 rates

 

[nib95]

Originally posted by: Steelski
I dont get why OP says there is an issue with the southbridge and the Asus R580 board.
The ULI southbridge is not a bad one by any means and there dont seem to be any issues whatsoever.
Pluss it has the highest overclock at T1 rates ........ever. I wonder what they could have gotten to with t2 rates

Well I have lots of USB devices, and I hear even the new RD580 Mobo's will have poorer USB2.0 performance then the Nforce4 ones.
Thats the only reason I'm not waiting for the A8N32.MVP.

But other than that I'd say it was better then the Nforce4 counterpart in most ways.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Using a BB-ATI X1900XT on an Abit NV8.