I have that same case static, it pwns.

ugh, i figured someone would say that - no sense in getting a new monitor when i havent upgrade in 5 years...what do you think i could get for the $500 that i would have spent on the monitor? i already have a CRT, i just need a mobo, cpu, ram. how much of a stretch would my Radeon 9800 be if i wanted to play HL2, BF2, FEAR,etc? would i need a new vid card? i could possible toss in an extra $200. damn, its been too long - i havent followed the newer stuff lately, i dunno what i should get for my money..

my 9800AiW runs HL2 perfectly....... HDR.. or HDL lighting ?? maxed @ 1600x1200....

i dont know how to overclock stuff, im not that savvy..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822144415 hard drive

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6824001228 Monitor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813136152 mother board
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814143048 video card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6836121130 Speakers
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103562 Processor

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811129155 Case + PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820145505 RAM

so far how does it look?

Looks good.

I'd go for dual channel ram though

thx for the links, my main concern isnt necessarily the price, the choices you picked were a bit out of my range, although i havent factored in that i have a monitor, speakers etc. i just need

RAM
mobo
CPU

i have an 80gb RAID using a modified IDE card. these HDs are circa 2002 and so they dont have the extra buffer, all i know is that there are to 40gb 7200rpm EIDE drives. is it proper to assume i will need a new RAID as well if im going to get a mobo that has DDR RAM, is faster and has more capabilities?

how do you know which components will function properly with eachother? thats the hardest thing for me to understand...
thx for the replies fellas.

i got that card last night with my new system. rock:

i plan on buying this pc because i dont really feel like building one, [url:edd28]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16883102668[/url:edd28], i was just wondering which video card to get with it

Lot of motherboards have built in raid functions, if it runs off a raid card then it should install in the new mobo with no problem.

Depends on the amount you're willing to spend on a card.

under $200

Prolly this then

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130283

[quote="9mm BeRetTa":76540]Looks good.

I'd go for dual channel ram though[/quote:76540]
I was thinking about that. My question is: Is 2x 512 faster than 1 gB?

I need to upgrade my mobo and video card, and I'm having some trouble.

So far this video card seems pretty good...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814143050

but now I need help finding a good socket 775 mobo that supports pci-e and a bonus would be if t supported agp also.

[quote="Sgt. Paine":57807][quote="9mm BeRetTa":57807]Looks good.

I'd go for dual channel ram though[/quote:57807]
I was thinking about that. My question is: Is 2x 512 faster than 1 gB?[/quote:57807]

I believe so, but there could be some more expensive 1GB sticks that are faster than 2 cheap 512s. Probably depends on the brand/price range.

is this a good vid card and a good price? the micro center store has a $50 mail in rebate, so it comes out to about $150. im thinkng of buying it as a part of my upgrade...
http://www.microcenter.com/byos/byos_si ... _id=234367

Its a pci express card, does your board have that capability

Tis agood card though, but its starting to be surpassed by cards with sm3.0 functionality.

no pci express on my board, but i do want to upgrade. is pci better than agp?

Pci express is the new graphics card slot (amongst other things in the future). Hard to buy a mobo now that doesn't have a pci express slot on it, Also all the high end cards are pci express only as agp is getting phased out.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.mar ... C00023.JPG

Fear my camera phone ed: oOo:


My asrock board decided to start working along with my opteron i had sitting for months gathering dust, at the minute its clocked to 2.62 ghz along side a new x1900xtx. happy:

Waiting on 2 gigs of ram arriving tomrrow so hoping to get it to around 3ghz.

Cards slightly bent i know, seems to be common among some x1900 boards.

gerv whats games do you own?

Quite a lot,

half life
dod
cs 1.6
hl2
doom 3
dod source
cs source
quake 3
fear
battlefield 1942 (all expansions)
battlefield 2 \spec ops
mohaa\sh\breakthrough
pacific assault
c&c generals
quake 4
red alert 2
farcry
bf vietnam
ut-99
ut-2003
ut-2004
c&c tiberian sun
call of duty \cod uo
call of duty 2


and a lot more i can;t think of. eek:

im looking for a way to crack a windows xp service pack 2 administrator password.

i heard there are ways, can anyone help me?

oOo:

hey gerv, im thinking about getting the 7600 gt from nvidia. Do you believe that's an "above average" card?

As far as im aware its about the same speed as the x850 series bu with sm 3.0 etc. Theres good deals going on 256mb x1800xt's at the minute which is a better card.

ok, thanks. YTMND*

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/ ... d-sli.html

Quad sli review

a working link would be nice spank:

wtf 0 on cod2.. oOo: oOo:

It does work. cuss:

[quote="Jin-Roh":4571d]wtf 0 on cod2.. oOo: oOo:[/quote:4571d]

[quote:4571d]What we see is that in 1280x1024, where we did not manage to test the GeForce 7900 quad SLI[/quote:4571d]

Never ran that part of the test for some reason. Seems to be quite afew problems with it as well

[url="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/geforce7900-quad-sli_10.html"]http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/ ... li_10.html[/url]

Quad sli is just a pretty dumb setup, you;re losing 150mhz off each gpu which makes for 600mhz total loss. Not even sure if the memory runs at its proper 7900gtx speeds. Pretty funny to see regular sli and regular crossfire smacking it around in some benchmarks, other times quad sli has a pretty big lead over them or a retarded 10-15fps lead over them. annoy:

this build?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813130484

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814102505

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817171001

need a 24pin PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103537


little over 500 with shipping

bumpty bumpty bump

Id prolly go with a faster prcoessor, and what ram are you using?

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/p ... wer_supply

picked up this biatch today....100$ canadian, but i got a deal on it and only paid 79 bucks. it's the 450W version though

you can def. pick up some hot bitches with that! ed:

Ordered a new mobo and case today, dance:

Black gigabyte aurora case, and DFI LanParty UT CFX3200-DR RD580 Crossfire.