Just getting back in to building PC's and

[Slayer]

Morning All

Well I have decided that the time has come to consider putting my hand in my pocket and upgrading my AMD x2 4800 (Curse the new Futuremark benchmark). I have been out of the PC building scene for some time now so I was wondering what Mother board people would recommend. Budget would be about £1000 (for the whole PC base) I have a good monitor which I would keep. The only thing I would consider taking out of the old PC is the 8800GTX and I was thinking about the benefits of going down the SLI route. I am not the world’s best overclocker more of a tweeker. I tend to keep my systems about 3 years with minor upgrades.

Any advice would be most welcome.

Thanks

Peter

 

[UTmaniac]

I should be able to give the lowdown on the MSI x48c Platinum mobo by the weekend (arrives tomorrow morning around 1028, if my usual predictable City Link driver has my order)...

 

[jambus]

My motherboard has been more than reliable. Gigabyte X38-DS4. If you're not overclocking I'd recommend a high clocked dual core, however if you like editing images, ripping dvd's etc. I'd go for the new, budget quad core, it's very nice and a lot of people have seen great performance out of it. Graphically, depending on what you plan on running, your 8800GTX is not going to be handling some of the stuff coming out soon, I don't think SLI will particularly save you from that, SLI'd GTX's have seen very marginal performance improvements in most games, some respond quite well however. I'd start by building from the case, motherboard, processor and memory and wait until June July period for the new series of cards, some of them are looking very very promising. A few details from you which would be good, firstly what're you planning on using the PC for, media manipulation or gaming? Hope to hear back.