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Motherhead weighs in, pisses on Fussbett budget and life by extension by Fussbett 12/27/2005, 2:44pm PST
Motherhead wrote:

Get The X2, yes they are 64bit processors as well. The 4400+ is the perfect sweet spot as of TODAY. the 4800+ is the better chip, but will cost you a grand. On the cheap, get a 4000+.

Ok, I'm believing in you here, and going to go with the 4400+, DOUBLING my CPU dollar allotment.

You want to be future-proof so I'm going to tell you to get an SLI based board based on Nvidia's Nforce 4 chipset. Even with the ATI card you have today. I recommend the Asus A8N-SLI in deluxe or premium, or spring for the new A8N32-SLI when they are more widely available. The earlier Deluxe models had some glitches, if you can't be sure of getting a later revision consider the premium.

Why go with this chipset? Sooner or later you'll replace that video card and even though you might not replace it with an Nvidia card (though for the time being, you would be insane) it will drive ATI cards just fine. Besides, further down the road you lose nothing betting on Nvidia SLI technology.

I need two identical cards for SLi, right? Imagining a day where I'll be so spendy as to buy two new video cards, I figure I will also be able to buy a new SLi motherboard to go with them. I'll spit in a homeless man's face on the way home just to really show that's I've arrived.

Thats a way of saying I'll probably get the non-SLi non-Firewire version of that board, the Asus A8N-E.

If you take my advice and get an Nforce 4 based board, be aware of a problem that will knock your speed from DDR400 to DDR333 if you fit a DIMM in all four slots, so 2 sticks of 1GB if you want 2GB at DDR400.

I've got no problem getting "OCZ 2Gb PC3200 DDR Dual Value Series" RAM, but anymore expensive than that and I get the feeling I'm being taken advantage of for an extra 1 fps.

But speaking of which, you seem to not care about DDR2. In my cheaper Intel Pentium D setup, I was all ready to go DDR2. For someone who wants namebrand RAM, this is curious.
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        OK HOW ABOUT THE MOTHERBOARD? by Fussbett 12/26/2005, 1:02pm PST NEW
            You can't run an AMD processor on that motherboard. That is the WRONG choice. NT by Motherhead 12/26/2005, 4:21pm PST NEW
    Also, what do I need to know about SATA? Nothing? NT by Fussbett 12/26/2005, 2:39pm PST NEW
        It's better in a few ways. by Bodybag 12/26/2005, 4:06pm PST NEW
            Re: It's better in a few ways. by Motherhead 12/26/2005, 5:00pm PST NEW
                I think you're right. NT by Mysterio 12/27/2005, 12:44am PST NEW
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                Psh, Ator. NT by Motherhead 12/28/2005, 1:48am PST NEW
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