Oh yeah, If I never earn over £15,000 a year (I hope I do!) I never have to pay a bean, and it's proportional for 20 or so years, then after that what remains is written off!
Thanks shawn_nee. Appreciated. Hmm. Im gonna go to uni, i have some inheritance (wont say how much ill sound bigheaded) to get me a good education and a starting house with a mortgage. Im lucky.
Damn straight, I have to work all summer just to pay for this computer, and I'm not even paying for all of it and I still end up with nothing left!
Lucky. You get it right off and pay it off later. I got mine as a gift but I have to work at least half of it off. When I buy new parts I have to pay straight up. That's why I wait and do a buttload of research before I make a purchase.
Exactly my scenario with the old build. Wait as long as you can bear, and research to make sure you get the best for your money.
Exactly. Before I decided to get my A8N5X I did a buttload of research and chose the best for the money. I am extremely satisfied with my purchase but I plan on getting a better Crossfire based board when the new ATi cards decide to appear.
Considering a Crossfire X2800 setup? Lol better find an auxiliary power supply, that's like 400W on it's own!
sammorris, No crossfire setup. Just a board because I love the high-end features. The X2800XT is my choice though. It'll be more than powerful enough to run any game that comes out in the next few years. I hope 400W is a gross exaggeration. Because even the most power-hungry SLi set-ups are about 110W on their own. You can actually buy a seperate power supply just for Sli video. It's 150W and very high quality. My friend uses it with his dual 7900GTs.
If you're just after the features get an SLi board like me, the chipset is better! I run a single ATI card, and it always will be single, but picked an A8N-SLi due to how good it is. No I'm not joking about 400W, R600 and G80 are going to be monsters in the power department. Your friend's 7900GT setup will be about 130W I suppose because 7900GTs are very efficient. My singular X1900XT will put out three figures at full load, and with two you're probably lookins at about 250W worth. R600 will be far worse than that.
I see your point on the motherboards. I think I might hit up an SLi instead. Because, truthfully, I'll never have need for two video cards. And, wow. I guess I never stopped to see how much power my X850XT sucks. But If you are right, another 400W Liberty just for my video card might not be out of the question. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817194002
Well, could be that that you need, some people are making 5 1/4" bay power supplies, some are making external boxes that have a sealed connector going in via a backplate, that then turns into 6-pin connectors, and rumour has it, we may possibly see external graphics cards!!! Imagine that, buying an X2800XT in a plastic box, a wire goes into your PC to connect to the PCI express 16x connector! And better yet, you can take your X2800XT with you and plug it into your laptop! Well, we'll see, but a lot of stuff Tom's Hardware has written has happened, so it may not be as strange as we think...
Video cards outside the box? Sounds cool but it's unlikely. It isn't really viable beacuse of the PCIe slot itself. What kind of device would plug into that over and over without damaging it. And laptops don't use a real PCIe slot. It's a specialized slot for moblie graphics.(Yeah, I have to rip your comments apart.) Would be pretty cool though Tom's Hardware is also a bit wonkie IMO. I don't really like them except for their CPU and GPU reference charts. I'm waiting patiently for the X2800XT though because it and an AMD 3 or a 4400+ Toledo are my next purchase. I'm going all out and getting top performance right off.
I dont even know what one of them is. Sure sounds great though! Laptops: Are they much harder to get more parts and replace parts for?
Yep! You got it in one! an X2800XT is the next ATi graphics card in line, due for release towards the end of this year.
I'm thinking a huge price drop is in order for the X1000 series. I'm gonna get an X1800GTO for my Sempron rig methinks. It's way bottlenecked by it's X800GTO. Any guesses on prices for the X2800XT? Maybe $600? $700 at most. But it'll rock for sure. If the X1900 is as great as it is, Then the X2800 has got to be even better. Can anyone say 1600 x 1200 at max on Oblivion? It's gotta look pretty sweet
Heh well... I run 1600x1200 at max on FEAR, the previous gamebreaker, but I don't think I'd get away with it for Oblivion!
