I want the new ATI Xpress 200P, but not at the cost of quality...

[Djinni]

I want to buy a new computer this summer and I have ben piecing it together on new egg for a few days now.

http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/Wis...767&WishListTitle=Super%20Sweet%20v2.0

My problem is that I have always been a ATI fan and I am really wanting to get a system with the x850 and the new Xpress 200P (RX480, I think its aka). Unfortunetly, there seems to be only 1 motherboard out that used the new chip,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813190003

But its from a company I have never heard of. I would really like to get this, but I dont want the quality of my system compromised. The question is, could this TUL motherboard compete up there with the high end ASUS? I know teh nForce4 and the 200P are pretty similar, but I want some professional opinion, excluding any ATI vs Nvidia debate please

 

[The Pentium Guy]

I haven't even heard of TUL. Don't bother with the XPress200 chipset anyways. Look at some nForce4 boards.

 

[johnnqq]

the new xpress boards are supposed to suppport crossfire. wait for that.

 

[ChicagoPCGuy]

AFAIK, TUL is large Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer, without much market penetration (name recognition at least) here in the US. Their boards are used by many OEM manufacturers. They had a presence at the Computex Taipei show.

 

[j511180]

According to Tul's site, they own the Powercolor brand, if that's any help

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: johnnqq
the new xpress boards are supposed to suppport crossfire. wait for that.

IF you have time to wait, I'd do what he said. But ATi isn't really good with chipsets. Their Southbridge is majorly buggy, and they've had to rely on ULI for their southbridge. We'll see though. If you're CrossFire'ing, sure go for ATI. But if you're planning on running only 1 card just go for nForce4. The chipset's more mature and most of the bugs have been worked out already.

-The Pentium Guy

 

[johnnqq]

question. will the crossfire board have integrated video?

 

[Creig]

The onboard video is optional. It'll be up to the manufacturer to decide if they're going to include it.

 

[Djinni]

Thanks for the replys. I think I will just go and purchase what I have laid out in newegg. I dont have that much time to wait, but I do not think I would get the cross fire on this system anyway, I dont have THAT kind of money I was planning on seeing how the dual vid card idea goes, and build my next next computer off that.

Thanks for the help.