Recent content by PeteH

Anyone? :O

Moved from the Motherboard forum because of a lack of activity. I am having a very difficult time picking a motherboard. I don't know enough about them to make a decision. If someone can recommend me an exact motherboard, (perhaps a newegg link or something) that would be greatly appreciated...

I am having a very difficult time picking a motherboard. I don't know enough about them to make a decision. If someone can recommend me an exact motherboard, (perhaps a newegg link or something) that would be greatly appreciated. I wont be using a RAID configuration, and while I plan on getting...

No need to penny pinch :)

No need for raid. Just running one hard-drive. Not using DDR3 ram, as listed in my specs. I'm not sure what you mean by multi-gpu? The graphics card is a 9800gx2 which I think is multi-gpu, but I won't be SLI'ing. I also don't plan on overclocking.

Going crazy trying to pick a motherboard here. It seems all the recommended boards have its fair share of bad reviews and good reviews.

I'll take a look, although I don't plan on overclocking I am still concerned about heat.

Yes, going to go with the GA-EP35-DS3R. Supports what I need and is recommended. So I'll go with it unless theres something clearly better.

I don't think I'll be getting a second 9800gx2.

EDIT: Current build. Still have a few days until I order the parts so trying to get all the input I can. Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q9450 (4x 2.66GHz/12mb L2 Cache/1333FSB) Motherboard EVGA 123-YW-E175-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i FTW SLI ATX RAM...

Doesn't look like the 8800 GTX and 9800 GTX are much different. Obviously the 9800gx2 has better performance, but it's pretty much 2 cards anyways. I can afford to either SLI or just get a 9800gx2. Seems to me the gx2 would be less hassle.

Conan isn't as hard to run as most people make it out to be. My Current set up, which is 2 years 8 months old, can run on high settings(Shadows off, draw distance at 400m) at 20 fps. It's actually quite smooth. It would probably explode trying to run crysis though.

Well, just "getting away" with running a single card doesn't seem to reassuring. Instead of the 9800gx2 I could just run 8800 GT's or something.

I'm using a 24'' at the moment.

Meaning I should SLI because of my monitor? Edit: I don't plan on overclocking, but it's an option.