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Ok, it's been a while ( I used to spend a lot of time on here but I became disillusioned with upgrading every 3 months 
) and I've got the itch to rip my rig apart and give it some new legs.
Current spec - 2 year old socket 478 P4 2.6 HT / Epox 4pda2+ i865 / 2 sticks 512mb Crucial pc3200 cas3 dual channel / Radeon 9800pro.
What I'm looking for - board / cpu and graphics card. I'm thinking my memmory and other bits like drives and psu will work in the meantime.
Budget - £350-£400, £450 Max if going dual core.
Ideally I would like a dual core processor but after reading about the good clocks coming from the x64 3700+ I'm thinking that might be the best bet. Board wise I would like the option of SLI as I'm going to have to go for a cheapish VGA card. Being able to add another at a later date owuld be a plus.
So the main questions are....
DFI or ASUS SLI ?
X2 3800+ / Opteron 165 or X64 3700+
Nvidia - what variant...... my monitor has a max rez of 1280 though I use 1024*768. I occasionally play 3d shooters though I have an Xbox360 for shenanigans like that now.
Thanks for looking, any suggestions greatly appreciated
mj
) and I've got the itch to rip my rig apart and give it some new legs.Current spec - 2 year old socket 478 P4 2.6 HT / Epox 4pda2+ i865 / 2 sticks 512mb Crucial pc3200 cas3 dual channel / Radeon 9800pro.
What I'm looking for - board / cpu and graphics card. I'm thinking my memmory and other bits like drives and psu will work in the meantime.
Budget - £350-£400, £450 Max if going dual core.
Ideally I would like a dual core processor but after reading about the good clocks coming from the x64 3700+ I'm thinking that might be the best bet. Board wise I would like the option of SLI as I'm going to have to go for a cheapish VGA card. Being able to add another at a later date owuld be a plus.
So the main questions are....
DFI or ASUS SLI ?
X2 3800+ / Opteron 165 or X64 3700+
Nvidia - what variant...... my monitor has a max rez of 1280 though I use 1024*768. I occasionally play 3d shooters though I have an Xbox360 for shenanigans like that now.
Thanks for looking, any suggestions greatly appreciated
mj
). I suppose I could use that to be going on with, but maybe a new one would be best as I have noticed some strangeness of late - PC rebooting when I mount a CD/DVD image or sometimes when I juts out a disk in. The board reports a pretty low 12v ~ 11.4v is the lowest, but the EPox board is pretty flaky for HW monitoring - the chip temp jumps from 30-70'c periodically, hence I don't even bother using temperature monitoring software.