Ok guy's give me a spec!
- Thread starter snailham6
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snailham6 said:
SLi is designed for Nvidia graphics cards, it lets you run two Nvidia graphics card at the same time which is great for high resolution gaming. The ATi equivalent is called Crossfire. So the Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire board is what you should buy instead.
That RAM should be just fine.
Edit: Too slow
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM)
£187.94
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£17.04
Gigabyte K8NMF-9 nForce4 Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-041-GI)
£49.29*
HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-042-HT)
£211.44
Corsair 1GB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS3.0 Kit (2x512MB) (VS1GBKIT400C3) (MY-061-CS)
£56.34*
Antec Performance TX640B-EC Black MiniTower Case - 400 Watt
£72.79
LG GSA-4167BAL 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-033-LG)
£28.14
£622.98 Total includes VAT
covers pretty much everything for a tad over.
X2 3800 dual core. graphics card is very good too.
Micro ATX mobo but good for just the single card.
OR --------------------------------------------
Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS)
£82.19
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM)
£187.94
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£17.04
HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-042-HT)
£211.44
Corsair 1GB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS3.0 Kit (2x512MB) (VS1GBKIT400C3) (MY-061-CS)
£56.34
Antec Performance TX640B-EC Black MiniTower Case - 400 Watt
£72.79
LG GSA-4167BAL 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-033-LG)
£28.14
£655.88 Total includes VAT
This option has a crossfire board , if you ever need to use 2x ATI cards.
£187.94
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£17.04
Gigabyte K8NMF-9 nForce4 Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-041-GI)
£49.29*
HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-042-HT)
£211.44
Corsair 1GB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS3.0 Kit (2x512MB) (VS1GBKIT400C3) (MY-061-CS)
£56.34*
Antec Performance TX640B-EC Black MiniTower Case - 400 Watt
£72.79
LG GSA-4167BAL 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-033-LG)
£28.14
£622.98 Total includes VAT
covers pretty much everything for a tad over.
X2 3800 dual core. graphics card is very good too.
Micro ATX mobo but good for just the single card.
OR --------------------------------------------
Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS)
£82.19
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM)
£187.94
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£17.04
HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-042-HT)
£211.44
Corsair 1GB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS3.0 Kit (2x512MB) (VS1GBKIT400C3) (MY-061-CS)
£56.34
Antec Performance TX640B-EC Black MiniTower Case - 400 Watt
£72.79
LG GSA-4167BAL 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-033-LG)
£28.14
£655.88 Total includes VAT
This option has a crossfire board , if you ever need to use 2x ATI cards.
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I think this is your best solution:
Get the dual core 3800+, with an X1800XT/XL 256MB. When you're gaming, turn the monitor resolution down to 1280 x 1024. That way you can still have great gaming (but not at full 24"). When you're not gaming, crank the resolution back to full.
Get the dual core 3800+, with an X1800XT/XL 256MB. When you're gaming, turn the monitor resolution down to 1280 x 1024. That way you can still have great gaming (but not at full 24"). When you're not gaming, crank the resolution back to full.
ok uve all been a great help pushed me over budget but for good reason going to look at online banking and have a good think anyone else get any other ideas please post but thanks very much for ALL your help so far will be in touch !!! cheers !
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