Wow it never fails. Anytime someone mentions an Nvidia card you're guaranteed to see several posts from fanATIcs saying, "get a 9800 Pro its better". I find it hilarious that everyone is jumping on the ATI bandwagon just because of what Gabe Newell says. It should clearly be obvious that all...
I do believe that was the most ignorant post I've ever read. First lets anaylyze this:
"With some games nVidia drivers won't let you turn on FSAA."
Please name some games. If I'm not mistaken wasn't it ATI cards that can't use AA in Splinter Cell.
"Their Splinter Cell performance is...
Carefully bend it back into place and you should be fine. Hell I accidently bent a couple pins on one of my IDE Slots on the motherboard. I used my pocketknife to bend them back and no harm was done at all.
Well its very clear that the majority of this board is in favor of ATI. But so far none of the answers given have been correct. There are 3 different models of the Geforce FX5600 first of all.
FX 5600 256mb
FX 5600 128mb Ultra (old)
FX 5600 128mb Ultra (new)
The 256mb model is...
It depends on which 5600 you get. The 256mb versions are poor performers but the 128mb Ultra models with a 400mhz core clock speed are much better than the 9600 pro and 9500 pro in some cases.
Just search for a program called coolbits. Its the easiest way to overclock Geforce cards, and yes, the TI4200 is an excellent overclocker. But that doesn't necessarily you can get up to TI4600 speeds, its all gonna depend on your cooling.
^^Nah man, Intel boards don't allow overclocking but mine has quite a few things you can tweak in the bios to improve performance. I haven't messed with them yet though. But anyway lets not turn this thread into a flame war, I'l admit I overreacted earlier.
:cheers:
I've just never been into overclocking. Granted the 2.4c chips are probably the best overclocking cpus out right now, but I'm happy with mine running stable and cool right where its at. As for the intel board, I've always had good luck with them so I figure why change.