On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Chris Mathey wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>>
>> So what should I look for for this one? I'm thinking:
>>
>> 1. dual-core AMD something
>> 2. HSF to go with #1
>> 3. maybe PS if mine won't handle it
>> 4. PATA card (if the motherboard doesn't do PATA) (until my old drives
>> get upgraded)
>> 5. sound card (onboard sound is usually crappy) (ALSA needs to like
>> it.)
>>
>> Maybes:
>> 6. RAM (if it's changed)
>> 7. video card (DVI out)
>>
>> Help me shop please. I haven't looked it hardware in a couple years, so
>> I'm a bit out of touch.
>>
> I would go for...(within budget of course)
> Socket AM2 Athlon X2 (w\ 1mb L2)or Opteron DC.
OK, Opteron is by Intel, and AthX2 is dual-core, yes? AMD says socket AM2
is meant to replace socket 939, apparently because of a keying restriction
they like. Is this happennwg?
> NForce 5xx or 6xx north bridge
> Most descent boards come with a pATA controller.
> DDR2 (get 2 x 1GB vs 4x 512, etc.)
> Creative X-Fi
>
> If you have the cheese go for GForce8800 as they are DX10 compatible (unless
> you don't game or plan to use vista.
> Otherwise get the best 7xxx series Gforce you can afford.
> The above will build you a screamer.
SLi is a method of ganging two PCI-E slots together for faster video
performance, and you can still use a plain PCI-E non-SLi video card though,
right?
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