compatability issues!

[cheeky-tiger]

Hi guys,

Just got my hands on a ATI Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB PCI-E. Just wondering what the best motherboard and prossesor i should buy to go with the graphics cards? Looking around the £400 mark.

Do you know if i would need 4gb of memory as i will be running vista 64bit?

Any help, advice and suggestions appreciated

 

[cheeky-tiger]

the psu i have at the moment is Dark Power Pro 530W . i will be getting someone to do the overclocking, thanks guys

 

[cheeky-tiger]

do you overclock?

what PSU do you have?

you do not need 4GB of RAM for 64bit, but it can be nice to have

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Asus Maximus Formula Intel X38 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £129.99
(£152.74) £129.99
(£152.74)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.20GHz (800FSB) - Retail £48.99
(£57.56) £48.99
(£57.56)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) £49.99
(£58.74) £49.99
(£58.74)
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £27.99
(£32.89) £27.99
(£32.89)
Sub Total : £316.95
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £57.03
Total : £382.93


drop PSU if yours is good enough, i speced it just incase

if you are not OCing, look at a higher clocked CPU

maybe drop cooler if you are not OCing

Was looking at the same motherboard but was thinking about a more powerfull cpu or do you think its not needed, i use pc just for gaming.