Opteron based system for gaming?

[Mrvile]

I love the Radeon X700, because its a nice powerful card for its low price. BUT, it currently only runs on PCI-e...and there aren't any Athlon MB's out that support PCI-e. So should I turn around and go Opteron for gaming, or is it pure server only? Sucks though since the PCI-e Opteron MB costs obcene amounts...

OOOR should I just hold off and wait a month or so for the X700 to come out in AGP and/or a PCI-e Athlon MB to come out?

 

[Markfw]

I wouldn't even worry about PCI-E, as right now they are the same speed. And I haven't seem any PCI Express Opteron motherboards, where have you ? (and don;t confuse pci-e with pci-x, totally different slot)

 

[Mrvile]

Crap you're right I read it wrong oops!!!

Guess I'll have to wait

 

[Ioo]

nForce 4 boards should be coming out soon.

 

[Kenazo]

And even if the x700 could run in the opteron board, why? For the price of the Registered ECC, the S940 mobo and the Opteron CPU, you could probably get a comparable A64 based computer w/ a R9800pro or something.

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

All the PCI-ex boards for the AMD64's will be rolling out be no later than years end and probably November so wait a bit and party