New hardware,what do you think?

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LoneWolf2

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Ok,so in the near future, I'm going to be getting some new hardware, and I believe all im going to need is a new motherboard and new cards, for my cards i've got this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143029 picked out, two of them, now for my mother board, Im not really sure what I need, Ive got a Amd processor, 939. And im not too sure what i need. For the mobo, nothing too expensive, under 200 if you could. But please help me allmighty [H] masters.
 
If you are going to budget that much for video cards, don't gimp yourself out of the chute with 6xxx series cards. Go with something like 7900GT's or the like, shouldn't be more than ~$30-50/card more and I think will be a much better buy. Also, be sure you got a good beefy power supply with enough juice on the 12V rails to handle two video cards!
 
would it be wise to go with a 7 series card and spend the extra money,or go with the 6 thats OC'd and all that? any links to what your talking about?
 
if you can get the 7900gts...if not then save up for the 7900gts :p or the x1800xts
 
well now that I think about it, Im considering the 7900 gtx,because its the newest card thats rather beefy, and I can always order another one to run in sli when I get more money. But I have a question, If I do only order one card and have a SLI mobo, It will still run as if It was a single PCI slot mobo wouldnt it? and when i ordered the 2nd card to run in sli latero n down, would there be any problems?
 
LoneWolf2 said:
well now that I think about it, Im considering the 7900 gtx,because its the newest card thats rather beefy, and I can always order another one to run in sli when I get more money. But I have a question, If I do only order one card and have a SLI mobo, It will still run as if It was a single PCI slot mobo wouldnt it? and when i ordered the 2nd card to run in sli latero n down, would there be any problems?
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yes itll run fine with one card and no there shouldnt be any problems :)
 
LoneWolf2 said:
ah,very good, i just did a side by side comparison,and I think spending the extra $80 is worth it between these 2

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814141023 (7900 GTX)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150150 (7900 GT)

The clock speeds for the gtx just blow the regular gt out of the water with an extra 230 Mhz on the gtx.
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Main diffrence between the 2 is the memory. The GTX has 512 while the GT only has 256mb. I would get one GTX for now, wait a while for them to come down even more and then go a second GTX.
 
bLaCktIGErs91 said:
It's $180, not $80.

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haha,yah,i just realised that, but yah, i do believe its worth it tho, and yes i will wait to get my second one about mid summer when the new wave of stuff hits and snatch one thats cheap.
 
LoneWolf2 said:
haha,yah,i just realised that, but yah, i do believe its worth it tho, and yes i will wait to get my second one about mid summer when the new wave of stuff hits and snatch one thats cheap.
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gd thinking :)
 
If you want to go SLi I sure would pick two 7900GT, should be in stock by the end of April.
The 7900GT overclocks like crazy, you can get them up to 7900GTX speeds and over with
some better cooling (check out Zalman VF900-Cu)

For a motherboard I would go with either
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131540
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131568

Not the absolute top-of-the-line but very good and stable all-round boards. The advantage
of the A8N32-SLI Deluxe is that it has two 16 PCi-e lanes (normal SLi shares one 16) and
thus higher bandwith and overall the board has a little better perfomance.
 
oh boy, a dilima here, would it really pay to get 2 regular 7900 gt's and overclock them and all that jazz,or spend the extra load at get the gtx?
 
LoneWolf2 said:
oh boy, a dilima here, would it really pay to get 2 regular 7900 gt's and overclock them and all that jazz,or spend the extra load at get the gtx?
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the gtx would be extremely helpful due to its 512...if you have the money then spend the extra..if not then unfortunately ur path is already chosen :(
 
haha,ive got the money, about $900 or so for right now, so I'll have some left over. But now I just have to wait for them to get in stock on new egg :(
 
LoneWolf2 said:
haha,ive got the money, about $900 or so for right now, so I'll have some left over. But now I just have to wait for them to get in stock on new egg :(
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Then there's no question. Go with two 7900GTX.
 
LoneWolf2 said:
now if I could find them in stock somewhere >_<
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Don't know how it is where you live but here in Sweden they are listed everywhere for April 24th.
 
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