Hi, I've been reading myself silly after having gone crosseyed, I have a few questions that I hope I can answered. Below I've put together a list of stuff that I'm ready to buy, and here goes:
1. Both the board and the card have PCI express, but I *just* chanced upon the fact that the power supply has to have special PCIe plugins? (Hence the addition of a noname budget powersupply in the list)
2a. Memory. The rig is advertising that it's capable of DDR2 1066 but with the disclaimer
2b. memory reviews, it's found that a lot of them don't run that high and generally run at 800 anyway without some tweaking in the BIOS. Maybe I'd just be better off in saving some money and buying 800 from the getgo?** I'm also assuming that the CPU I have picked out would support it regardless?
Info: Machine is a gaming machine being upgraded on a budget after picking up the game Left 4 dead and it's convinced me it's time to upgrade after 4 years. The $372.77 currently priced out (after rebates) is quite attractive considering that years ago I paid $300 alone for the X800 Pro that currently resides in this system so I'd be willing to play around with the numbers some, but shooting for ~$500 or less.
**An important note, I am not an overclocker and have no plans to either, so compability is more important to me than tweaking that last 5% out of the system; thus I'd rather drop memory in and it works rather than having to MAKE it work.
SAPPHIRE 100245L Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102770
COOLMAX CU-700B 700W ATX 12V V2.2/EPS 12V V2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Modular Power Supply - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817159089
CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-8500C5 - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145215
GIGABYTE GA-MA770-DS3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX All Solid Capacitor AMD Motherboard - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128081
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.1GHz Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core Processor Model ADV60000DOBOX - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103272
1. Both the board and the card have PCI express, but I *just* chanced upon the fact that the power supply has to have special PCIe plugins? (Hence the addition of a noname budget powersupply in the list)
2a. Memory. The rig is advertising that it's capable of DDR2 1066 but with the disclaimer
but reading a lot of reviews inWhether 1066 MHz memory speed is supported depends on the CPU being used
2b. memory reviews, it's found that a lot of them don't run that high and generally run at 800 anyway without some tweaking in the BIOS. Maybe I'd just be better off in saving some money and buying 800 from the getgo?** I'm also assuming that the CPU I have picked out would support it regardless?
Info: Machine is a gaming machine being upgraded on a budget after picking up the game Left 4 dead and it's convinced me it's time to upgrade after 4 years. The $372.77 currently priced out (after rebates) is quite attractive considering that years ago I paid $300 alone for the X800 Pro that currently resides in this system so I'd be willing to play around with the numbers some, but shooting for ~$500 or less.
**An important note, I am not an overclocker and have no plans to either, so compability is more important to me than tweaking that last 5% out of the system; thus I'd rather drop memory in and it works rather than having to MAKE it work.
SAPPHIRE 100245L Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102770
COOLMAX CU-700B 700W ATX 12V V2.2/EPS 12V V2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Modular Power Supply - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817159089
CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-8500C5 - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145215
GIGABYTE GA-MA770-DS3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX All Solid Capacitor AMD Motherboard - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128081
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.1GHz Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core Processor Model ADV60000DOBOX - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103272