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Dual Vid Card Mobos

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adam7488

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I don't know much about video cards as a whole. I'm planning on spending some serious cash on a extremely high end system. I heard that in the near future; there will be a mobo that supports dual AGP. Is this true? If I'm gonna build a system; I want the best.

I mean imagine what that would mean; two vid cards, DDR2, an FX-55. That would change the graphics community forever. Systems would never choke up again. 120 fps high settings everything enabled on D3, HL2, FC?

My question is if these things are coming out, are they gonna be worth the ridiculously high price; would you have to use the same two vid cards? Tell me what you know...

Thanx

Adam.
 
adam7488 said:
I don't know much about video cards as a whole. I'm planning on spending some serious cash on a extremely high end system. I heard that in the near future; there will be a mobo that supports dual AGP. Is this true? If I'm gonna build a system; I want the best.

I mean imagine what that would mean; two vid cards, DDR2, an FX-55. That would change the graphics community forever. Systems would never choke up again. 120 fps high settings everything enabled on D3, HL2, FC?

My question is if these things are coming out, are they gonna be worth the ridiculously high price; would you have to use the same two vid cards? Tell me what you know...

Thanx

Adam.
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AH...not 2 AGP slots- 2 PCI slots on the Nforce 4 motherboards that are either coming out very soon or already came out. Two of the best Nvidia has to offer- 2 6800 ULTRAs in SLI would cost alone over $1000. Plus the motherboard (say $200), the FX-55(say- $800), the PSU (say-$80), the case ($100-200), the Hard Drive (10,000 RPM 76 GB) (say $150), DVD-burner (say $100), sound card (Some sound blaster audigy) (say $100), your very easily looking at spending $2600 without the Monitor and the Speakers. And those are just very rough estimates.

Edit- WHops- I forgot the RAM- 1 gig of DDr2- $200
So the total changes to $2800.

Opps- thats just stock cooling.
If you want extremely high end system then you probably want either water-cooling or Vapor-CHill :cool:
 
{NcsO}ReichstaG said:
AH...not 2 AGP slots- 2 PCI slots on the Nforce 4 motherboards that are either coming out very soon or already came out. Two of the best Nvidia has to offer- 2 6800 ULTRAs in SLI would cost alone over $1000. Plus the motherboard (say $200), the FX-55(say- $800), the PSU (say-$80), the case ($100-200), the Hard Drive (10,000 RPM 76 GB) (say $150), DVD-burner (say $100), sound card (Some sound blaster audigy) (say $100), your very easily looking at spending $2600 without the Monitor and the Speakers. And those are just very rough estimates.
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Yeah but that system would be soo BA. just imagine if you oced all of it.... 3dmark05 = 11,000 :)
 
adam7488 said:
Yeah but that system would be soo BA. just imagine if you oced all of it.... 3dmark05 = 11,000 :)
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Lol- 11,000 in 3Dmark05, when most system get 11,000 or less in 3DMark03
 
It's dual PCI express not AGP

DDR2 is not coming onto AMD boards for a few years.
 
vapb400 said:
It's dual PCI express not AGP

DDR2 is not coming onto AMD boards for a few years.
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Oh..didn't know that. DDR2 isn't better than DDR right or at least better by much?
 
DDR2 suffers from latency issues, so its higher bandwidth is wasted right now...DDR is just as fast...wait for some second gen stuff...intel went the DDR2 route way too early...
 
Intel's been making the same mistake since the P4s were introduced - they're pushing new tech before it's actually an improvement over the old tech, just to sell more new tech & raise profits. Intel's going to have to get its shit together before they see any of my money.
 
ameoba said:
Intel's been making the same mistake since the P4s were introduced - they're pushing new tech before it's actually an improvement over the old tech, just to sell more new tech & raise profits. Intel's going to have to get its shit together before they see any of my money.
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Sadly though, we all KNOW this works. If you build it, we want pics! Show that bad boy off. I'd deffinitley go with a vapochill BTW.
 
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