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xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 09:09

Good day all, may name is Mark and I am from good old Northern Ireland. I am just new here and look forward to joining in the chat.

I have a new PC on the way and I can wait to get my hands on it (spec below). I am currently using a Toshiba Sat Pro laptop but its time to return to the good old desktops.

PC Spec.

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4200+
Coolermaster Praetorian 732
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe PCI-Express Mainboard - ATX
2048MB DDR400 Memory - PC3200 (1x2048)
300GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB Buffer
SONY 16x Dual Layer DVD-Re-Writable +R/-R/RW
16x DVD-ROM Drive (40x CD-ROM)
2x 256MB nVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE - DVI - SLI Configuration
19" Viewsonic VA1912W Digital & Multi Media Widescreen TFT Display
7.1 Channel Surround Sound Audio
Logitech S200 - 2.1 Speakers with Subwoofer
Logitech Cordless Keyboard & Rechargeable Cordless Mouse
ASUS WL 138G 802.11G/B Wi-Fi PCI Card
1.44MB - 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive
Internal 15-in-1 Memory Card Reader

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 09:25

I will be using the PC for gaming and also web design, but gaming will be its main use. Unfortunitly I cant cancel or change it because of 2 things, 1. The finiance is already through and 2. Its due here any day now. I do have a 2nd PC lying around that I plan to slowly upgrade so I may try and put the 2 6600LE's in that and upgrade to an ATI eventunitly. The 6600's where part of the deal anyway and cost hardly anything so at the moment they will have to do.

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 09:27

Just a quick pick of your brains but how much do you think I would get for them?

Remember they will be OEM and all.

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 09:32

Just checked and some are going for £50 each so I take it I will be looking at roughtly £100 for both then.

Not to bad I guess so then I could maybe put a couple of pounds to it and get a 7800Gt.

But in the mean time the two 6600LE's wont slow it down that much, will it?

For example will I be able to run say.....FEAR at a decent enough resoultion?

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 09:39

I so cant wait to get my hands on this system to try it out, been away from PC game for far to long now, the Xbox has been good in the mean time but nothing beats the PC.

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 09:44

Has ATI got the edge on the nVidia cards at the moment and for £200 is the x1800 my best bet?

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 09:58

Thanks guys for all your advice, it really helps as I have been away from pc's for to long to keep in tune with all this.

One question I do have it what is the advantage of SLi and Crossfire (I asume they are both the same). Will they make my 6600LE or what ever card I change it to, run twice as fast?

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:16

Thanks mate, thats answered it spot on for me, dont fancy going to deap into it, to early in the morning for that, lol.

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:20

Can you SLi two different cards? Like if I was to get a 7800 and SLi it with a 6600, i know thats silly but can you do it?

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:26

Thanks guys. Now the big decision of a nVidia 7800GT or a x1800 XT. £200 is my limit because I still have an Xbox360 to get at some stage and I dont want to be too skint.

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:34

I think I will be just going for an x1800 XT anyways. The price is the big seller plus from what I am reading in reviews the 7800 and the x1800 are roughly the same.

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:42

Is it not worth the extra for the 512?

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 11:02

Thanks guys. I gotta start selling things on eBay now to save up the money.

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 11:42

Just a quick question but will an ATI card work ok on an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe PCI-Express Mainboard?

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 13:34

Will having 1 sitck really make that much of a difference?

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 13:51

I just got all my invoices through the post today and it says that shipping date will be the 27th

. So sucks, I am dying to get my hands on this.

Thanks for the link charltonfan1, some interesting reading. I will maybe look to adding some more ram in future to maybe give it that extra boost.

xknight2000 · 12 Mar 2006 at 01:33

I will phone them on Monday rather than email them so I get an instant reply. Thanks for all the advice guys, its been a great help.

xknight2000 · 12 Mar 2006 at 14:23

Oh dont worry, I will be trying the setup first. I know I have a good system and despite having a pritty basic card there is two of them and with the 2gb of ram and dual 64bit cpu power I am hoping will give me what I need.

I would love system that can pull out the top preformance from games like FEAR etc.... but this system may give me what I need. In time I will definitly want to upgrade to an x1800 but that costs money, something I dont have a lot of at the moment, lol.

As I said before, I gotta see how all my eBay sales go first then I can see how much I have.

xknight2000 · 12 Mar 2006 at 18:34

Ok I will be getting the system at the end of the month but due to a finance agreement I can change anything to the system unless I want to cancell the whole lot and re order, which will take nearly another month.

What I plan to do is sell the 6600LE's for roughly £80/£100 for the both and put about £150 to it and upgrade to either a X1800 XT 512MB or else 2x 7800GT 256MB's in SLI if I can afford them ok. I would love the 2x 7800's as I know that would be a better option but its all down to money.

Looks like my 360 is put off for another while.

xknight2000 · 12 Mar 2006 at 18:40

Or would getting a single X1900XT be better than two 7800GT's in SLi?