What's the best PC motherboard/graphics?
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- Joe K
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The card and box were $5500.00. Today you couldn't give away that card.
Ouch!
On the other hand, if you got the money and you use your computer that much go for the latest and greatest.
I do an awful lot of work on the computer and a lot of times I will have photoshop, paintshop, dreamweaver, smartftp, and a bunch of browsers open. I built my computer about 8 months ago for $600 and it has never struggled with any of the work I do. The only games it has trouble with are BF2 and BF2142.
Then again, this is a group that drops a thousand bucks a pop for a chair. I am starting to think I am cheap. - Last Edit: 17 years 7 months ago by .
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- Mack
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Easier if you just get one ready to go.
alienware.com
We all know you got an extra 20k laying around.
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- Dan L
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For pre-built kit I can highly recommend a BOXX system (
www.boxxtech.com/
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Back when I was "properly" working we had a rack of BOXX workstations for rendering...the build quality is stunning and the performance even more so - although they really are built for raw processing power (we had dual AMD Opterons in each). - Toolbox Digital | Dribbble | Forrst
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- Dave Goodwin
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Dan L wrote:
I'd spend more on some decent, fast memory (and a lot of it) and a good quick hard disk (actually, I'd RAID two for even better performance) then get a CPU that was quick but not some uber $1000 quad because that's quite possibly a little bit of a waste.
Same with the gfx card; X1950s crossfired is all very nice but quite possibly too bloated for your requirements.
Well, here's what I got.
Striker Motherboard
One 1950 ATI Card
4GB PC 800 RAM
Two 74 GB Hard Drives (10k RPM) that I will stripe Raid 0
Duo Core 2 - 2.66 MHz
I got a motherboard that is Quad Core compatible and a processor that has a bit less expensive so that when the price comes down on the Quad Core, I'll swith it out. I got fasr RAM too.
So, wieh me well. I'm a 70% finished putting it all together.
dave - "I'm an individual, just like everyone else."
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- Dave Goodwin
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Mack wrote:
Easier if you just get one ready to go.
alienware.com
We all know you got an extra 20k laying around.
If you only knew, Mack! I love the Alienware boxes. There doesn't seem to be anything like them! - "I'm an individual, just like everyone else."
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- SureLurksalot
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Prepare for Gaming Glory Dave!
;D (just got done watching 300....) - Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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- Bob Ateah
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Dave, I have the Core 2 Duo 2 X 1.86 and it just screams.
Asus EN7600GT 256 meg PCI Express video card - HDTV Out.
1 gig DDR II 533 mhz RAM pc4200
Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card
I can play games at the highest settings, even using the HDR setting with Oblivion and I get uber high frames per second.
I have never slowed this puppy down, it can handle everything that I throw at it!
As an aside, I have been a "trackball" user for quite some time. Whether gaming, doing graphics or just general computing, I swear by my marble mouse. I takes about 2 days to get used to and a lifetime to love! I'll never go back to a mouse!!
Happy computing Dave! - The member formerly known as Roland Deschain
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- Dan L
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Good, sensible choices ;D
*drool* - Toolbox Digital | Dribbble | Forrst
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Why suddenly all the ATI gfx talk?
Some time ago ATI gfx was good, but all the newer 8800's from Nvidia blows away ATI..
Or did I miss something?
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