Same ?? everyne has...did I get the right stuff?!

[rjbeck]

I already ordered, so too late now. But, will this remotely work:

--8GB Corsair XMS2 RAM
--two NVIDIA 512mb 9800GT cards (SLI nautrally)
--EGVA 750i SLI mobo, p/n# 122-YW-E173-TR
--Intel C2D E7300 (it was cheap, and the Q6600 was back-ordered...that will be my first upgrade in a few months)
--200GB SATA HD with XP (my old drive, I still need XP)
--new 250GB SATA HD with Vista X64 (I want 64-bits and XP x64 may not be the answer for me)

I don't want to damage the XP drive, but basically I have to load the new drivers and mobo stuff unto to it, then I can just boot and go?
The Vista drive will be a fresh install. I have read somewhere about making an easy dual boot system with two hard drives (I don't want to select through the BIOS everytime!). So that aside I guess this thing should run.....

 

[snakej]

2 9800gt....bro i know sli is cool and everything but, one card solution still better idea, if u said u were on the budget and got one, and then upgrade to another one ok, many done that, but when u buy all the stuff together the gtx 260 is way better in most game than 2 9800gt sli, remember sli just help to increase in a 30% only. if u bough 2 evga 9800gt in 149 without shipping that came up to 298, u could almost got a gtx 280, if u got the xfx version for 124 still to much when the msi gtx 260 is 199 without shipping at newegg..but over all its ok,,the 7300 isnt that bad with a good cooling u can overclock pretty high so that will still last u untill he 7i come down or the quad cores..hope u enjoy ur new system..=)

 

[rjbeck]

I really wanted to go with a gtx 280, but I already had one xfx 9800gt, so I bought a new xfx 9800GT for $100. I figured for the money why not just go ahead and have two pretty good cards in SLI. With flight sims a single card probably works the best, but I might want to play something else though. Plus, I have never had a dual card setup.
If I had $200 to spend on a card right now I'd have got the gtx 260. Well my first upgrades are processor, then graphics card. I figure next year the gtx 260 and 280 will come down a little in price.

Come to think of paying big money for cards, in 2006 I paid Dell $130 to put in an ATI X1250 in my E510. That was a $50 card then and a $10 card now. They'd probably charge over $400 for a gtx 260.