What Should I buy?

I'm building a new Rig and I have a little problem, a better Graphic card o better CPU?

Which set up is better?

AMD Athlon64 37000 + ATI X1900 XTX
or
AMD Athlon64 4000 + ATI x850 XT

Please Help

I would get the first choice if your doing alot of gaming. You can always OC the 3700 to 4000 specs. That is of course if your into OC'ing.

Yes, I meant to say first choice and not second. I edited my post so you can relax now

I was speaking to the other person, sorry if I didn't clarify that....

I still recommend the 4000+ since the prices on this cpu is about as low as its going to get until the next release of AMD CPU. The X1900 video card is new and is at it's highest price now - in a few months you should see the prices fall. The savings will allow him to get a new motherboard (if needed) or just pocket the cash he would spend. Its the reason he is asking the question - if he had they money he would then get the 4000+ and the X1900

Not a problem. At least it made me realize I had made a mistake anyway

let me guess it s a 100 step pipeline? with se-dn-rl-ep-fg-pd-soi? and with a gig of cache? lol

Yup.
X1900 is much better than the X850 and will be slowed down by the CPU. Unless you OC,i'd say get a 4000 and a 1900XT(not XTX).
If you OC a cheap single core opteron will suffice.

3700+ and x1900xt(X) (whichever u can afford) dont listen to the idiots saying to buy a 4000+, for the extra, i duno what the diff is i imagine its over 50 dollars more, the 3700 has only 200mhz slower clocks, it does have the 1 meg of cache, get the 3700, oc 200 mhz (u wont even have to, its a FAST chip) and get the x1900, its WAY better than the x850, thats old tech taht doesnt support sm3.0.

actual;ly why waste th emoney on a 3700+?

buy a 3200+ its not much slower and with a 1900 u'll be fine

i said that, i was comparing the 3700 and 4000, comparing that it was the saem core, same cache, just clocked 200 mhz slower, if he wants to game, he will be MUCH happier with the 3700 and x1900(any flavor) i wasnt calling u an idiot, i was calling the idea stupid. theres no reason to buy the fastest chip if hes willing to oc a SMALL amount to match perforamnce of a chip thats over 50 dollars more, i cant believe ur actually argueing over this, ur saying taht its worth the extra 50+ dollars for 200mhz which will show 0% difference in games, whereas the x1900 is probably a good 60% faster than the x850 with AA and AF, it really is no contest. but the person who made this thread needs to be more specific, if hes gaming, encoding, or anything other. for gaming, id recommend a 3500+ and overclock it, the extra 512cache = about 200mhz, a 3500 will pretty easily overclock to 2.6, making it about as fast as a stock 4000+ (if the 512cache = 200mhz thing is actually true) but between the 2 things u posted, its no contest, no matter what ur doing (as long as ur willing to do a small amount of oc'ing) 3700+ and x1900xt(x) is best choice hands down. now to decide between a x1900xt and xtx... x1900xt... if u plan to overclock, if u dont wanna risk it (not really a big risk...) id say the x1900xtx if u can afford it, either way u wont be disapointed with that setup, with a 4000+ and x850xt u will be, because ull go to play hl2 lost coast and turn on HDR to find ur card maxing out at 60fps looking at a wall, the x1900xt will eat that game up and beg for more boasting above 80fps average

thanks for summorizing mine, i doubt many people would read that entire thing

yea which is why i said the 512 cache = about 200mhz... which isnt really a big perforamnce jump