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PostPosted: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:34:00    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post

I don't see mention that the mobo is at all Nvidia-related but I have no problem with their video cards. If nothing is wrong with the choices above I can begin to consider ordering.
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PostPosted: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:38:52    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post

I think only nVidia will work in SLI in that board. So if you buy ATi now you can't upgrade it to dual cards with out buying two new cards later.

Only real reason I think for going nVidia on that board.
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PostPosted: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:41:20    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post

vileguy wrote:
I don't see mention that the mobo is at all Nvidia-related but I have no problem with their video cards. If nothing is wrong with the choices above I can begin to consider ordering.


No - You picked an Intel based board, but I was just giving some reason to take one card over another.

I have a 975 based board, the ABIT AW8D... that thing has just about everything onboard, but that DFI board looks great, too. If the DFI is like mine, despite not being an ATI chipset board, it does support ATI's Crossfire multi-GPU setup.
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PostPosted: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:45:15    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post

I really don't know about dual-processing for cpu or vpu. It seems the dual cpus come together but for the vpus u can buy them 1 at a time? I guess crossfire is the ATI support for that and the Nvidia is...SLI?

Like I said I don't have a problem with Nvidia so I can just get that and not worry about whether or not the board supports crossfire if it supports SLI...not that I know that or not.

edit: well i chose that hard drive way to fast...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140

looks quite a bit better for a little more

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PostPosted: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:49:53    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post

Right... if you buy one that is capable of SLI / Crossfire... you can always pick up a second later for use on a compatible board.
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PostPosted: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:12:21    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post

So I'm pretty set on the case.
The hard drive seems great.
Video card (evga) should be fine.
Power supply looks good.
Ram looks good.
The cpu I think I'm gunna go with the pricier of the two, the e6600.
The mobo I don't see a problem with.

Raidmax X-1 Case
Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive
Kingstom RAM
eVGA Nvidia Video Card
Sunbeam Power Supply
Intel Core Duo e6600 CPU
DFI Infinity Mobo

That's what I'm looking at purchasing...and a CD Rom Drive...gunna wait a bit and keep researching...hope I can handle installation Sad

Newegg is nice for window shopping but is that a good place to actually buy from? Anywhere I could buy all this together or should I just get each piece alone?

edit: considering this cd rom drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152058

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About to make my purchase of the 8 items from newegg for 1104.93 + shipping... gl to me I guess. Big help from this forum. I'll stick around and probably have questions come installation time Confused

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PostPosted: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:37:23    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post

Newegg is one of the best in class places to buy from.

And that's a great burner. As another thing to think about is lightscribe (actually burns writing on a lightscripe DVD) for only a few $$ more

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827151118
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PostPosted: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:06:50    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post

vileguy wrote:
I really don't know about dual-processing for cpu or vpu. It seems the dual cpus come together but for the vpus u can buy them 1 at a time? I guess crossfire is the ATI support for that and the Nvidia is...SLI?

Like I said I don't have a problem with Nvidia so I can just get that and not worry about whether or not the board supports crossfire if it supports SLI...not that I know that or not.

edit: well i chose that hard drive way to fast...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140

looks quite a bit better for a little more


by the by, its gpu not vpu for your graphics chip.

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