Mathos :
I'm still waiting for a few more to come out. Gonna play the wait and see this time. Look around at which ones have the bios options I want, with good stability, OC results, and voltage regulation. Wish I'd done that when I ended up getting the MSI k9a2 plat. Steady board, but the Bios support from MSI went craptastic after a while. Went from a good OCing bios board, to kinda limited options.
I'd really like to see Benchmark results though for Phenom at speeds over 2.6g on the core and at or over 2.6 on the NB.
Actually it should be a pretty solid performing system Jimmy. I know all I really need to do on mine is upgrade to a couple 4850's or 4870's, and get a better mobo and I should do fine. I don't do half bad as it is. Still manage to break 11k in 3dmark06 with my current setup.
I am sure it is a good system. He should be getting it tomorrow or so since he lives about 4 hours from the site where Newegg ships from (City of Industry Cali) so we will know then.
I get about 11K on my system (Q6600, HD2900Pro 1GB) and got near 13K when I OCed my CPU to 3GHz and OCed my GPU to 800MHz/1200MHz (2400MHz effective). But I know my system with one HD4850 should hit 13K stock and with a 4870 its near 14K.
They are powerful GPUs the 4800 series. I want a 4870 but am waiting for a 1GB version. I know I am crazy but it seems to me that having 1GB of GRAM helps with higher res textures and alows for better performance since there is more memory for more and larger textures. Or so it seems. Like my rig for example is able to play HL2: EP2 and TF2 @ 1920x1080p and still gets 60FPS.
Either way I will update you guys about the rig my friend has when he gets it up.
hmm, i though all the HD series of gpu's could handle audio and video over HDMI including the 2 series?
You are correct. All of the HD2000, HD 3000 and HD4000 GPUs can do 5.1 audio via HDMI via a adapter. The only difference between the series is the HD4K series all have the UVD2 where as the older HD2K series did not have a UVD that I was aware of unless you had a HD2600 or lower.