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Is this the best for my money?

That's strange, it doesn't show that way for me. For those of you who can't see it properly, here are the parts:
XFX nVIDIA GeForce 6800 Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-Bit, TV-Out/Dual DVI, 8X AGP, Model"PVT40KND" -RETAIL
Kingmax 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3500 - OEM
SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive, Model MPF920, OEM
Hitachi 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model HDS722580VLSA80, OEM
Samsung Black 52X32X52X16 DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive, Model TS-H492A/WBGH, OEM
Arctic Silver Premium High-Density Thermal Compound, Model "Ceramique", 2.5-gram( ~0.8 cc. ) tube
Thermaltake Venus 12 CPU Cooler For AMD Opteron and Athlon 64, Model "A1744" - RETAIL

This all adds to $491.97.
 
Your probably asking for trouble with any XFX products. There are at least a few "XFX is crap" threads running around here.

You'd also probably want to get a PSU with more amps on the 12V, and a better brand as well.
 
I'd stay away from no-name RAM. You also don't really need PC3500 even to overclock. Get 1GB of value PC3200 from Corsair or Mushkin.

Look into eVGA, Leadtek, and BFG for the graphics card.

If you got a retail CPU, just use the stock heatsink/fan for overclocking at the moment. It's actually very good at that. (If you do want an aftermarket HSF anyway, I'd get something like a Zalman 7000A AlCu, which includes a fan, or a Thermalright XP-90 with your choice of 92mm fan.)

I wouldn't have recommended that TT PSU, and I know MSI says you should have at least 20A on the 12V rail for their board.
 
if you could not get the fancy cooler, and use the one the comes with the A64 (which is ample - hell i am running it on .2V over stock and at 30C idle 2530mhz.. with mine), and 2 sticks of 512mb corsair / geil /mushkin value select CL 2.5 ddr 400 ram... cos 1gb is alot better than 512.. and you dont need pc3500 to OC a a64 nicely, because running ram dividers doesnt hurt performance on a64
 
Originally posted by: Dethfrumbelo
Your probably asking for trouble with any XFX products. There are at least a few "XFX is crap" threads running around here.

You'd also probably want to get a PSU with more amps on the 12V, and a better brand as well.
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If XFX is such crap then why does Anandtech suggest it as the vid card of choice in all their gaming sys. buyer guides?!?

I hate how rumormill these forums can get.
 
So that eVGA in your sig should read XFX?

It humors me that someone uses a product and it works for them so they disregard everyone else's experience with it.

There were a huge lot of XFX 6800 GT boards that had resistors falling off them right out of the box. Those board were bought at Compusa and part of a great sale.

I wouldn't advise anyone to buy xfx or pny tho many do buy those products and get great performance. I am more concerned with those that did not. The BFG, Leadtek and eVGA rec above was a good one.

 
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