New PC

Milla · **New PC -** 06-02-2005, 10:21 PM

Alright guys, sooner or later this year i plan on building a new computer, I want a AMD 64 with an ATI graphics card, probably a X800. I need a good motherboard to run all of it so i need some ideas. Give me ideas on everything from the mobo down to the memory, i want like 1 gig

geRV · 06-02-2005, 10:24 PM

New shit coming out all the time, ati's bringing out their own motherboards which support "crossfire" which is 2 cards linked together like sli, but has other benefits of stuff like 14x antialiasing (current maximum is 6x on ati).

Probably better waiting till you're about to order it before getting an idea of specs for it. Obviously pci express is a must have, as for memory, id say 2 gigs is what you're looking for, 1 gig is pretty much the standard now and mores gonna be needed.

Also dual core cpu's are starting to be pumped out, at the minute though not a lot supports them, games will eventually support them though. Then you have PPU cards which is a physics processing unit, another add in card pc's will start using eventually which takes the physics processing load off the cpu freeing up your cpu time.

Milla · 06-02-2005, 10:28 PM

wtf PCI-E? i heard it wasnt much faster than AGP right now, and AGP-16x is coming out soon.

Unknown_Sniper · 06-02-2005, 10:28 PM

fucking shit. Im typing on a paper weight. How much are you expecting ot spend milla?

geRV · 06-02-2005, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Milla

wtf PCI-E? i heard it wasnt much faster than AGP right now, and AGP-16x is coming out soon.

Agp is dieing out, pci express is the new standard. 8x agp wasn't even used fully till they decided to basically ditch it in favour of pci express. Pci express basically gives more bandwidth for the card to use, lets you use multiple graphics cards simaltaniously (crossfire, sli).

Milla · 06-02-2005, 11:06 PM

I dont know how much im planning to spend yet, but gervs got me looking at this

[img]http://www.hothardware.com/articleimages/item689/big_platform.jpg[/img]

http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle. ... =689&cid=2

geRV · 06-02-2005, 11:08 PM

Yup, gives you the option of bumping your gfx performance buying another x800 card later on. happy:

Forte · 06-02-2005, 11:20 PM

yeah when I build my new computer im gonna get that. ed:

Himmler · 06-02-2005, 11:34 PM

crossfire > sli.

but nvidia is coming out with sli 2 sometime in the future...

lol i remember when i bought my pc everyone said 2gigs of ram is worthless...now its going to be needed soon. thats funn biggrin:

geRV · 06-02-2005, 11:40 PM

Sli 2 is probably just gonna start bringing in some of the crossfire features like more antialiasing modes or something. If they are then despite nvidia releasing their multi card setup first they'll be playing catchup, in terms of features at least.

Milla · 06-02-2005, 11:42 PM

Right now im looking at

AMD 64 3500 +

ATI Radeon X800 256 MB

450 Watt Power supply ( ed: )

120 GB hard drive...wester digital of course (on top of the 100 GBs i have now.)

2 Gigs of Corsair Memory

Not sure on the mother board yet.

What else do i need?

geRV · 06-02-2005, 11:44 PM

Bigger psu id say, like 500 watt minimum.

Milla · 06-02-2005, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by geRV

Bigger psu id say, like 500 watt minimum.

Christ do they make that? lol

Himmler · 06-02-2005, 11:45 PM

try to get the xt, or the x850xt

geRV · 06-02-2005, 11:47 PM

x850 would be a bit noisy i think, 2 of em would at least.