joseywales
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- Nov 2, 2006
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Here's my deal. I have an offer from a friend that'll convert my existing AGP system over to PCI Express. While admit the upcoming components are not what I'd opt for if I were buying new, I feel for the price I'm getting it's still a good deal. So, here's what I'm moving up to:
Asus A8N Premium SLI
AMD FX-60 CPU
2GB RAM
750 watt PSU
My primary goal is to be able to drive my 24" monitor at its native resolution of 1920x1200 at acceptable frame rates (mostly FPS games). This mobo is SLI ready, but I'm going to start, for financial reasons, with a single GPU. That being said, what is the best single card solution that would suit my needs?
Although it would make sense to go the nVidia route so that in the future I could upgrade to SLI, I'm not a !!!!!! of either camp and because of the fact that I'll be running a single card for the foreseeable future I'm looking for suggestions on what to start with knowing that I'll be performing a complete overhaul within the next 8-12 months (thereby negating the need to plan longterm SLI perhaps?).
Right now I'm looking at the 7850GT 512MB variants and the X1900 cards. Of those, which would you recommend....for that matter, if it's something else please let me know.
Thanks all!
Asus A8N Premium SLI
AMD FX-60 CPU
2GB RAM
750 watt PSU
My primary goal is to be able to drive my 24" monitor at its native resolution of 1920x1200 at acceptable frame rates (mostly FPS games). This mobo is SLI ready, but I'm going to start, for financial reasons, with a single GPU. That being said, what is the best single card solution that would suit my needs?
Although it would make sense to go the nVidia route so that in the future I could upgrade to SLI, I'm not a !!!!!! of either camp and because of the fact that I'll be running a single card for the foreseeable future I'm looking for suggestions on what to start with knowing that I'll be performing a complete overhaul within the next 8-12 months (thereby negating the need to plan longterm SLI perhaps?).
Right now I'm looking at the 7850GT 512MB variants and the X1900 cards. Of those, which would you recommend....for that matter, if it's something else please let me know.
Thanks all!