Advice!

[MadMacs]

Hi, My name is chris aka MadMac. I'm new to the forums.
Anyways I was after a little help from you guys deciding on what components to go for with my new pc.

So far I have a "A8N32-SLI-DELUXE" motherboard, a "AMD ANTHLONX64 4600 DUAL CORE" processor and a coolermaster wavemaster case.

So I need ram, graphics and a psu.

I would like to get the best, so could you guy's please suggest to me what would be the best graphics setup in sli I can't run crossfire and the best memory to go for I was looking for 2gb (2x1gb) and a good 600w+ psu.

Thanks
-MM

 

[hyper_piper45]

Hi and welcome to the forums.

What is your budget for the upgrade as that will help with us with component choice.

Also you say you already have an A8N32-SLI-DELUXE etc. Does this mean you have already bought them, or you plan to get them? Because if not you should go conroe route.

 

[MadMacs]

I have already got those components. and lets say my budget is £1000 for the psu, graphics and ram!

At the time I got a great deal on the Amd processor. But if I had to build it again yeah core 2 duo would be best but this is already a massive upgrade for me.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

For that sort of price, I'd recommend:

G Skill ZX 2GB RAM set if you wont be clocking (nice tight timings)
ATI Radeon X1950 XT-X Crossfire/Master Edition SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR4 (PCI-Express) (so you can upgrade to Crossfire later on with just another x1950xt and a new mobo)
Antec TruePower Trio 650W PSU

Which would cost you under £600, would be pretty damn nippy, and would leave you money aside, to upgrade graphics/another component at a later date

If you're not so keen on ATi, I'd recommend one of the 7950GTX or 7900GTX, however theres been more than a few reliability issues with nVidia recently.

 

[MadMacs]

Ah really. I always thought nvidia were very stable.

I thought of the 7950gx2 card, I know that 2 7900gtx would be better but i wounder would the extra money be worth the performance increase.

I would like to get a dell 24" monitor so the graphics needs to be good for me to play games at a high resolution!

 

[hyper_piper45]

CA-006-SS Seasonic M12 Modular 600W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-006-SS)
£99.99 £99.99
MY-101-CS Corsair 2GB DDR XMS4400 Pro TwinX (2x1GB) CAS3 (MY-101-CS)
£189.99 £189.99
GX-086-LT Leadtek GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-086-LT)
£284.99 £569.98
Subtotal £859.96
VAT £150.50
Total £1,010.46

Just a shade over budget.

 

[MadMacs]

Thanks i'll check that out, To be honest there is no real budget i'm at college 1 day a week and the rest of the time i'm working and only have the money to spend on myself!

 

[MadMacs]

Is'nt the graphics card £334.86 including vat. Thats what it says here http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7950_Series.html

*Edit
I see you have 2 7950 gx2
I can't run quad graphics, my motherboard user guide says it won't work!
And would it be possible to run a 7950 gx2 card and a 7900gtx card?

what about this?

"Leadtek GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-086-LT)"
500MHz Core Speed
- 1200MHz Memory Speed
- HDCP Ready
- Designed For Extreme HD Gaming
- Nvidia Pure Video Technology
- QUAD SLI ready – (Quad SLI support will be provided through a future NVIDIA ForceWare driver release. See www.slizone.com for details)
- Shader Model 3.0 Support
- True High Dynamic Range Rendering Support – Based on Open EXR technology
£334.86 Including VAT

and a...
EVGA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB GDDR3 HDTV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-008-EA)
- GeForce 7900 GTX Core running at 650MHz
- 512MB GDDR3 Extreme Memory running at 1600MHz giving upto 51.4GB/second bandwidth
- 24 Pixel Pipelines
- Designed For Extreme HD Gaming – Delivering Ultra - Dual link DVI support
- SLI ready – Delivering upto 2x the performance
- Shader Model 3.0 Support
- True High Dynamic Range Rendering Support – Based on Open EXR technology
£293.74 Including VAT

Total £628.6

 

[hyper_piper45]

Shame.

Personally i think you would be fine with one 7950, just went for 2 because of the big budget

I think it would be fine on a 24" screen.

Edit: Not sure if you can run that setup you suggested. I don't really know alot about sli, you might have more luck in the graphics forum.

 

[MadMacs]

I think i'll wait around a while, seen as I don't have the money yet. And maybe something better will come out and prices will drop