new system!!!

[Illegal Amigo]

Hey guys, what do you think of this:

how does this look for a mobo?: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131540
this proc-piece: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103562
what do you think for video card?: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143037 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130033. The EVGA one has 4 more pipelines and looks 1337er. Your thoughts?

all that shiz will leave me a touch under 700 clams.

now, what i want to know is if you have any better suggestions. or you think what i picked sucks. or stuff.

i'll use the ram i already have, lol -- three sticks of: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820145026
powered by psu lol that i already bought: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817182027
i'll use the hard drives and optical drives i already have.

tom

 

[The Brick]

The evga 7900gt is faster and cheaper. And check the price of the cpu again tomorrow or the day after. It will suddenly be halfed

 

[Shakermaker]

And check the price of the cpu again tomorrow or the day after. It will suddenly be halfed

Troof. Check this thread.

 

[Sedako]

Personally, I think you should pick up the eVGA 7900GT non KO with a $30 rebate http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130032 and get a Zalman vf 900 gpu cooler http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...Ntk=all&N=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

Both will total at about the same price but nothing beats the zalman for cooling power.

 

[hneaz]

for $290, u can get urself a X2 5000+....

 

[Illegal Amigo]

P.S., does anyone know how Socket 939 processors stack up against AM2 of equal speeds?

Thanks

 

[Asus]

I would not use all 3 sticks of memory you have. To take advantage of Dual Channel Memory...use only 2.

Now if you want more than 1GB of system memory I would suggest you buy a 2GB kit (2x 1GB DDR) since 4 sticks would slow the memory speed down from DDR400 to DDR333. If you bought new memory then you might as well go to Socket AM2 and get DDR2 memory and then you could pop an AM3 CPU in next year.

for $290, u can get urself a X2 5000+....

not available on Socket 939.

P.S., does anyone know how Socket 939 processors stack up against AM2 of equal speeds?

Thanks

They are the same except use DDR2 memory instead of DDR. The only other 2 differences I can think of is the X2 5000+ and FX-62 CPUs are Socket AM2 only and that next year the AMD cpus for AM3 will be able to slip into an AM2 board with DDR2.

The Asus board looks like it has a lot of features and the noiseless cooling. Looks good to me. Price isn't bad either.
The 7900GT is a bit faster than the 7800GT. And zalman fans are awesome for being so quiet (will take up 2 slots).
My brother is also getting the X2 3800+ next week after the price drops. He is going with socket AM2 though since he needs to buy memory too.
this is what he is getting
Monarchcomputers.com and Mwave.com have already dropped their prices but he is waiting on newegg.
X2 3800+ on mwave.com

 

[xLostx]

get an opteron

 

[Asus]

get an opteron

They raised the prices on them now so enthusiasts wouldn't buy them all up. Not worth it at all unless you are going for an extreme OC or want to pay extra for the extra quality control. If we were talking socket AM2 then you could just get a EE (energy efficent) version of the X2 and have more OCing headroom.

The X2 3800+ (2GHz 2x512KB L2 cache) will perform better than the Opteron 165 (1.8GHz 2x1MB L2 cache) at stock since the extra MHz is better than the bigger cache on the Opteron and it costs less. Opteron 170 (2Ghz 2x1MB L2 cache) costs $100 more. And I don't believe the Opterons are in the price drop next week. So that would make them a lot more expensive comparied to the X2 3800+ when it hits $150-160.

 

[The Brick]

The X2 3800+ just magically halfed in price!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103562