Intel vs. AMD

For sure. Get an A8N-SLi series, even though you won't be using SLi, they're fabulous boards. I'm going with the SE for my next system. A good PSU should have the right connectorl if not, there are adaptors.

 

PLEASE send me a link to onel.. power adaptor that is.. i need one that is not just a molex to the pci-e thing, i need the one that uses to molex xonnectors to connect to the pci-e thing

 

From what I can gather, you want one that uses two molex connectors for one PCI express connector? Yeah that's the high end solution. Hold tight.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812154001

This do?

 

FISHNERD,

You may want to look into getting this adapter instead of the EPower one. It's much more flexible and can easily be bent around things in your case. It's cheaper too!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812189120

The 2 plugs are for each 12v rail to insure enough power to the video card!

Happy Computering
theonejrs

 

Thanx, i found that exact one that sammoris had found, BTW: how do yall like this.. mobo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131584


video

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814102004

and da other power connector

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812189120

what do yall think..

thanx,
fihsnerd

 

Hey guys,
Have a look here:
http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp
Extremely handy if your building a new system and want to know what sort of current your setup will draw,
or adding/upgrading components to an existing setup and are concerned whether your current psu is up to the job

 

If there's one PSU calculator I use (and there is), it's that one. It's the only one really specific enough to give you an accurate result. That's a good mobo, assuming you'll ever use crossfire functionality. Or even if you don't. The GPU is second to none.

 

Yeah.. Good.. I can flash the bios over to the X1900XTX from going from version 1.1v to 1.3 or somthing..
but.. my dad was going to pick me up this..

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7803059&type=product&id=1142293092373

but i told him that i can just wait.. what do yall think? i can have that one today, or i can wait.. is it worth it?

 

You don't even need to flash the BIOS, just use ATi Overdrive to up the clock speeds, you may even get it slightly faster than an XTX if you get a Powercolor or Gecube version.

 

I can't remember what's been said about the A8N5X, I should think it's a good board though, being Asus.

 

It's a lower end board but it has alot of sweet features(except firewire) But if you newegg it it's about $75 I think.

 

FISHNERD,

By all means wait!!! for about 10 seconds and then order it from Newegg! It's $78.99 (USD)

It's an excellent MB. It's got the same chipset as an SLI, DDR400, better than average sound, a 16x PCIe slot and and dynamite LAN. I considered this MB but I don't yet own a PCIe x16 video card and I went Intel anyway! Bought an Asus P5P800-SE!

Do it now unless your old MB is under warranty. If that's the case maybe you can trade up to the better MB !!!

[bold]Attention new AMD x2 buyers[/bold]. Those of you who are considering buying an AMD 64x2 CPU in the near future would do well to wait until the end of July. Check it out!!!

http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657&starttime=0&endtime=0

I believe the single cores have already dropped in price but this is the first I've heard of an official price cut for the X2s.

Happy Computering
theonejrs

Happy Computering,
theonejrs

 

The single-cores have indeed taken a 10-15% price-cut. And I intend on getting a Toledo core 4400+ when it happens to the dual cores. I plan on taking it up to 3.0GHz and matching conroe blow for blow. Screw DDR2! That's what overclocking is for!

I know that current generation processors are becoming obselete but they aren't becoming slow. Everyone stop losing your heads over the new tech! The top end stuff is most definitely going to be $800+. Who here has $800 for a single part... any hands? The midrange Conroes are probably going to still match the current mid-range AMDs for the most part. It's a just a new platform. Not a double in performance. The new Conroe is only going to beat out FX-60 by about 20-30%. If you overclock and FX-60 to 3.2GHz(about the speed cap) then you will still match Conroe. Not to mention the FX-62 on the new AM2 platform. The increase in processing power through the new technology will definitely insure another victory.

Intel and AMD can't really go much higher than about 3.2GHz with current(or next) generation technology. Not if you shorten pipelines atleast. This is why we have seen AMDs high-end hit a performance cap at about there. Intel, in essence, is only copying AMD's technology so they will suffer the same performance cap. There would need to be a whole revolution of the industry(and possibly a partnership of the two companies) for that performance cap to be surpassed.

And back to the motherboard. I think it's pretty sweet. In fact I bought it last week and am using it right now. It OC'd much more stabily. And I'm enjoying the 4(that's right, 4) DIMMS slots. My next move is possibly 4 512MB sticks of Crucial Ballistix because the 1GB sticks are known to fail and I don't wanna be left with only one GB of memory. My only complaint is no firewire. But I'm never going to use it anyway. I'm a gamer not a multimedia freak

And if anyone of you are wondering... yes, I'm an AMD fanboy

 

DAMNIT that throws a wrench in my new built that was going down the week after next with the AMD Opteron 175 Denmark ,looks like i better wait 6 weeks now and man i was all set on getting it

 

Lol so be it, doesn't bother me! The same goes for the price cuts, the overall benefit to the cost of the system will be quite slight on a lower-end model so I don't see much need to wait.

 

yeah i may just bit the bullet and go ahead a do it .think i will call AMD and see what kind of price cut going down with the higher end CPUs (Opteron) and if it isnt that much i will just do it now!!!

 

Just defragmented my hard drive and gained an extra 200mhz overclock!!!
.............LOL. Thats not true, but it feels 200mghz faster.For anyone that hasnt defragged for a while, do it soon.Its amazing how your computer slows down so gradually and then you defragment the drive(drives) and its like a mghz increase in clock speed!!!

 

Yeah but I'm a bit wary of defragging, lost 2.5GB of data that way once...

 

lol faulty drive? if you don't even know what you lost it was probably fragmented files. lol

If you did know what you lost... i cry for you :,(

I like to wait a long time in between each defrag... like 2 weeks anyway. Yes' it is very refreshing to have a defragged computer

 

No it was lots of mp3s, some I paid for with itunes...