NEW BUILD

[Rowdee1]

Im thinkin of my next build, but Im not sure which direction to take. Been an AMD person long before they started devoloping good hardware. Im reaaaaaly leaning toward the C2E and the nvidia nforce 590 board. If I do this now, as opposed to waiting till after the first of the year maybe, is this a good choice for the future? Is the technology going to change again and leave me with second best? Hard enuff to consider using an Intel base. Just want to be sure that I can keep up with things for a while. I am mostly just a gamer. I use my comp for music and games and not too many real apps. Any thoughts or opinions here? Thx Rowdee

 

[pkme2]

What's your budget? Most likely a ready build, but that's up to you.

Check here first: http://www.mechbgon.com/

Here next: http://sysbuild.corsairmemory.com/report.aspx?id=2

 

[Rowdee1]

No budget here. Gonna build a top end system. Like I said, I wanna maybe go with the Intel C2E. What I am concerned about is if the current hardware is gonna last me for quite some time to come, or is it gonna fade when Microsoft comes out with Vista. Im also concerned about Using current gpu's, like 2 7900 GTX's in SLI, or is their gonna be compatability issues when DX10 comes out? This is going to be my dream machine.

 

[Rowdee1]

Also, I have building high end gamers for years now.

 

[YoungGun21]

The only thing that is going to considerably fade out soon are AGP slots...

I'm still running an older P4, 512MB RAM, FX5200 and I can still run all the new games that come out. Yea they are low settings but I can still run them and I hardly lag at all b/c I'm on the lowest settings.

A C2D and 7900GTX SLi will last for like 3 years playing everything on High settings possible. But...if you want this to be your dream machine I would wait for DX10 and Vista...but only if you're willing to drop almost $700 on a video card. If you really wanted to go with the "dream machine" theory then waiting for the QX6700 to come out would be nice but that will be atleast $1100 during release.

What I'm saying is anything top of the line now will last you atleast 5 years because my computer wasnt even top of the line 4 years ago and it still runs nice.