Bah sod it... pc gaming here I come.

[Dark_Angel]

Well,

I have to say... despite LOVING my 360... I am a PC lover. And so I have decided to buy an upgrade for my PC. I need a quick look see though from you wonderful people.

I will be buying an x1800XT card + a motherboard, anyone suggest the motherboard? (a socket 939 please) it really must overclock great... cause My venice reaches 2.8GHZ... so HTT speed must break 300

As for Video, I gather its not really worth grabbing a 256MB card now? I suppose 512MB one? something like a

PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail ?

Ram - I currently have 2 x 512MB sticks. I was thinking of grabbing 2 more, as it would be far cheaper... would I really be losing that much performance over going 2x1GB?

Lastly, I suppose the venice at 2.8 will be perfect for a month or 2, but after that... I will grab an x2 3800.

So umm... anyone want to comment or anything

 

[Dark_Angel]

Truthfully, I am running my ram at stock at the moment on a divider

resolutions... I have a CRT monitor so I can run at 1600x1200. I gather a lot of people will still agree that the x1800XT is the best value for money and performance right now? 512MB?

What about motherboard? anyone else wanna make a suggestion?

 

[Dark_Angel]

I must admit I have never tried DFI before, I have used an MSI, ASUS and currently have an Epox motherboard.

Are dfi really worth the extra cash?