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[TheAntiMother]

Hello there TheAntiMother "n00b" here, I am building a new pc and here are the specs. Please tell me what you think about them.

ALSO
*I was thinking about waiting for the hd radeon 48570 x2 to come out so it can be my single card solution instead of just going for the SLI config of my two 9800 gx2 WHICH SHOULD I GO FOR*

If its better and I choose to go for the Hd radeon do I have to get diffrent kind of motherboard and ram since they are both SLI ready specialy because my mainboard is 780i.

Please help figure out what i am doing and should do

Thank you
Peace and Much Love "TheAntiMother"

CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8500

Motherboard
EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

OPS
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 32-bit English 1pk for System Builders DSP OEI DVD

Ram
OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2N800SR4GK

GPU
2x XFX PVT98UZHF9 GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB (512MB per GPU) 512-bit (256-bit per GPU) GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

HDD
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

Power Supply
OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI 700W ATX12V Power Supply

Case
Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

DVD-burner
ASUS 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model DRW-2014L1T

DVD drive
LITE-ON Black SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model DH-16D3S-04

CPU cooler
ZALMAN 9500A 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound


ALL OF THIS EQUALS TO $1,753.87 AT NEWEGG.COM (MINUS REBATES WHICH IN MY CASE IS $190.00)
TOTAL WITH REBATE IS $1,563.87

PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK

 

[Proximon]

Wait for the ATI.

Get an x48 board or wait and get an x58 or whatever it is at the end of the year.

 

[TheAntiMother]

would that board or kind of board be for the crossfire cards?
48570 x2?

 

[Proximon]

Yes X48 is for crossfire, as well as P45. Any nVidia boards such as 790 are for SLI. SLI boards from nVidia are not as stable and not as good overclockers as Intel chipsets.

The new ATI cards blow nVidia out of the water. There is no reason to go SLI right now, unless you have an insane amount of cash to spend and want to SLI GTX 280s.

 

[TheAntiMother]

Ok then 48570 x2 it is XD
one more question though should I change the type of RAM I have since its SLI ready or what?
Can you tell me what you think of My computer specs? so far *just cross out the GPU and the motherboard and RAM if needed*

thank you very much Proximon

 

[Proximon]

The whole SLI ready thing is just a gimmick. You can get great RAM for less:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146731

That is one good choice and there are others.

 

[skywalker9952]

+1 for what Proximon said

 

[TheAntiMother]

+1 indeed

 

[roadrunner197069]

+1

 

[TheAntiMother]

Please check out my specs and tell me what you think "P

 

[hopkiller]

you need to get a 64 bit OS if you truly want 4gb of memory and if you want more later i would go with microsoft Vista ultimate 64 bit.

 

[TheAntiMother]

why go for the 64 bit OS?
Ive heard many flaws about the 64 bit?
How is it better than the 32 bit?