Will this work

[Mrvile]

Athlon64 3200+ 939 with an X800XT PCIe? Or is the 3200+ a bit low?

 

[Mrvile]

No one will help me??

 

[Frew]

depends on the motherboard

 

[Mrvile]

Abit AX8 K8T890

 

[Sonic587]

You'll have to wait for NF4 to be able to use PCIe cards on the AMD64 platform. Those should be here by the end of the year.

IMO, if you have the coin to drop on an PCIe XT, you should check out PCIe 6800GT SLI.

 

[gobucks]

Currently, there are no PCIe mobos actually avalable in retail, although many have been announced. They will hopefully be available by next week or something. As for the 3200+, it should be adequate. If you are looking for gaming, then most games will be much more Graphics bound than CPU bound, so it shouldn't be a big deal. By the time it matters, you could always pop in a faster CPU, maybe even a dual core. Oh, and one thing to know about the new 90nm chips - they can overclock really well. The 3000+ can hit 2.5-2.6GHz on good air, which is like a 45% overclock in the case of the 3000+. If you get one of these processors, you can good memory (crucial ballistix, or corsair XMS, or something like that) and good cooling (maybe a Thermalright XP-90 heatsink with some Arctic Silver 5 coolant) and achieve FX-55 performance. As for the video, are you really that intent on spending $550 on a graphics card? It looks like you are looking for value, and while the X800XT is a great card, I personally wouldn't spend that kind of cash on a single component for my PC, especially a graphics card, since performance goes up in graphics at such a rapid rate. If you are looking for some value, you may want to look at the 6600GT (or X700XT if you are an ATI person). It's $187 for the dual-dvi XFX version on pricewatch, and it's got 9800XT performance packed in. Anyways, that's your call.

 

[Mrvile]

Sonic, the K8T890 is PCIe.

Gobucks, I have a lot of extra money and I'm not making a budget system, I want one for crazy gaming. I considered dual 6800GTs a while back but considering that a single 6800GT PCIe is now near the price of an X800XT, I decided against it. But I wanted the next best thing, which would be an X800XTPE, but an extra hundred bucks for barely a 10% gain? So I chose a standard X800XT, but instead of going AGP I chose PCIe, the upgrade route.

Also take a look at my post under the Motherboards section to read about when the mobos (at least the K8T890) are to be announced.



Thanks for the comments guys and I'm glad they work.