What to do??

Fireskull · 30 Mar 2007 at 13:02

Opinions please lol

Do I..

A.

Buy a A64 4200+ X2 and a 320mb 8800gts

Sell my MSI 7900GTO

and hold of getting CD2 for a few months save some money see if prices drop?

or

B.

Gigabyte DS3

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300

GeIL 2GB PC6400C4 800MHz

But will mean i will have to hold off getting the 320 8800gts and watercooling parts for them for a month :/ meaning cpu will be running on stock cooler (aint read into them are they quiet lol?)

Sell my Asus A8n32-Sli Deluxe mobo

melbourne720 · 30 Mar 2007 at 14:33

A tbh

Nymins · 30 Mar 2007 at 15:09

I would go with 'B' and keep your 7900GTO until you have enough to get the 8800. The overall performance will be better with the second setup and will also give you the ability to upgrade later on this year when quad core prices drop a lot.

furnace · 30 Mar 2007 at 15:10

B! Definately

fail at the internets · 30 Mar 2007 at 15:12

furnace said:
B! Definately

You should listen to this man!

Fireskull · 30 Mar 2007 at 15:37

Heh thats what i thought, i reckon it will be a really nice boost as i reckon my current system is bottlenecking the graphics anyway, will check my outgoings this month then get ordering

shame i cant afford the watercooling stuff needed this month aswell :/ but will still be exciting doing a new build again

melbourne720 · 30 Mar 2007 at 15:49

furnace said:
B! Definately

I think an X2 and a 8800 GTS would beat a C2D + 7900 GTO in a lot of games tbh.

Edit: Sorry, thought you had the X2 already :eek:

. I'm changing to A

jongeeone · 30 Mar 2007 at 15:54

B Would be the best option. The stock cooler is quiet so no worries there.

Fireskull · 30 Mar 2007 at 16:03

melbourne720 said:
I think an X2 and a 8800 GTS would beat a C2D + 7900 GTO in a lot of games tbh.

Hmmm see now that sways me a little lol :/ because i see CD2 prices changing all the time, but im currently playing the newer games, CnC3, TDU, Stalker and the like, because if CD2 with 7900gto wont offer more than 8800 and X2 then i might stay with AMD for a while :/

but then again im donating the ram and cpu from current system to my bro for his mAtx system

nbkpsycho · 30 Mar 2007 at 16:04

If you play a lot of games then id go for A. But if you are using the pc for anything else then definately B

1337z0r · 30 Mar 2007 at 16:05

B then wait for 8800's to drop in price more, or wait for R600.

Fireskull · 30 Mar 2007 at 16:05

nbkpsycho said:
If you play a lot of games then id go for A. But if you are using the pc for anything else then definately B

Yea PC is mainly for games/music and net, did do a lot of web stuff and photoshop but im putting that on hold till an updates Mac Mini comes out then ill do all work stuff on that

melbourne720 · 30 Mar 2007 at 16:17

Fireskull said:
Hmmm see now that sways me a little lol :/ because i see CD2 prices changing all the time, but im currently playing the newer games, CnC3, TDU, Stalker and the like, because if CD2 with 7900gto wont offer more than 8800 and X2 then i might stay with AMD for a while :/

but then again im donating the ram and cpu from current system to my bro for his mAtx system

As there are no DX10 games out, your 7900 GTO will be fine. I'm think you should get the C2D, unless you have an option to save for C2D and 8800 (which unless your brother wants to weight then you don't).

Fireskull · 30 Mar 2007 at 16:19

melbourne720 said:
As there are no DX10 games out, your 7900 GTO will be fine. I'm think you should get the C2D, unless you have an option to save for C2D and 8800 (which unless your brother wants to weight then you don't).

No he dont know hes getting it yet, hes wanted a pc for ages but is still looking for part time work while hes at college so ill donate what i can for a surprise lol

furnace · 30 Mar 2007 at 16:46

melbourne720 said:
As there are no DX10 games out, your 7900 GTO will be fine. I'm think you should get the C2D, unless you have an option to save for C2D and 8800 (which unless your brother wants to weight then you don't).

BBBBBBBBBB

There's no games that your 7900 is lacking it at the moment, but there will be in a month or so's time... and in a month or so's time, you'll be able to afford an 8800, right?

So then you'd end up with a C2D + 7900 rig in the short term, but a C2D and 8800/8900/etc in the long term. Rather than an AMD + 8800 rig.

I know one I'd rather...

subliminal messaging 4tw...

Fireskull · 30 Mar 2007 at 17:14

lool yea, i can afford an 8800 next month, mabie by then even a GTX but mabie ill just get a 640mb gts and get some other stuff like sound card and some watercooling stuff will be more worthwhile, but all depends on the games

Nymins · 30 Mar 2007 at 17:40

If your getting the DS3, then dont get a sound card. The on-board sound on the DS3 has HD ports, so there is no need for a sound card. It has:

Line In

Line Out

MIC In

Surround Speaker Out

Rear Speaker Out

Center

Subwoofer Speaker Out

Side Speaker Out

Fireskull · 30 Mar 2007 at 18:27

Nymins said:
If your getting the DS3, then dont get a sound card. The on-board sound on the DS3 has HD ports, so there is no need for a sound card. It has:

Line In

Line Out

MIC In

Surround Speaker Out

Rear Speaker Out

Center

Subwoofer Speaker Out

Side Speaker Out

is it not worth getting a xfi music for EAX in games then?

Nymins · 30 Mar 2007 at 19:38

Im not too experienced with sound, but i find normal onboard sound fine and this is HD according to the Gigabyte website, so i think it should produce excellent quality sound.