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amol

Lifer
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well, it seems like i have enough money right now to start the buying process . . .

on this system, the most arduous thing it will be doing is playing games

Battlefield:1942 and Vietnam; CS:S, HL2, MS Flight Sim

Case : Lian-Li PC-6070B

PSU : Antec Neopower 480W

CPU : AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester Core

Motherboard : nForce4 SLI (waiting for other boards to come out and have the $$$$ come down)

RAM : PQI Power Series 1GB (1GBx1)

Video Card : BFG nVidia 6800GT PCI-Express

Hard Drive : Seagate 160GB SATA II

Optical Drives: NEC 16x DVD+R Burner AND Lite-On DVD-ROM (Reason I'm getting TWO opticals is because I've heard that the NEC is loud during operation, so I'll only use that for DVD Burning)

Monitor : Dell 2005FPw (obviously lower price than that)

Sound Card : Audigy 2 Platinum Pro

Speakers: Z-5500

I got a floppy sitting around here somewhere

Thanks for your time!
 
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Rami7007

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You might have the money for it but i dont know if SLI is such i good idea... i mean its not bad, it does boost your performance a good bit... but i dont think it matches the price to performance value... For now yes it will give you good frame rates, but if your already getting 80 fps with one high end card then you dont need more because the average is actually 30 fps and very good is 60... It basically is a little extra Nvidia put out as a thing for the people who want to be on the top with the best cutting edge stuff every minute but i dont see it as an amazing thing... Its just my opinion but i would just go with one 6800 ultra... stay with PCI-Express though... I am just getting an Nforce4 Ultra to make my PC futureproof... You dont have to listen to me but thats just my opinion...
 
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amol

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Originally posted by: Rami7007
You might have the money for it but i dont know if SLI is such i good idea... i mean its not bad, it does boost your performance a good bit... but i dont think it matches the price to performance value... For now yes it will give you good frame rates, but if your already getting 80 fps with one high end card then you dont need more because the average is actually 30 fps and very good is 60... It basically is a little extra Nvidia put out as a thing for the people who want to be on the top with the best cutting edge stuff every minute but i dont see it as an amazing thing... Its just my opinion but i would just go with one 6800 ultra... stay with PCI-Express though... I am just getting an Nforce4 Ultra to make my PC futureproof... You dont have to listen to me but thats just my opinion...
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Well, at first, I was GOING to get an nForce4 Ultra

But then, I realized that I'm going to keep this motherboard for at least 4-5 years (if possible)

If I can afford two of next-gen cards, I'll get those

besides, if i don't use it . . . what is it, $50 more? there's speculation that PCI-Express x16 slots could be used for things other than gfx cards

SLI offers flexibility too

1680x1050 max AA/max AF is possible with a ton of games, too
 
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ComatoseDelirium

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Yeah that Partriot Ram performs well, if I were you, I would go with the 1 gig of single memory over the 512, especially because Athlon 64's don't get a large performance boost from dual channel, and the fact that systems don't get any performance penalties from 2 x 1 gig ram modules, where they might with 4x 512 MBS modules.
 
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