HAY GUYS

Garret · Jul 16, 2007, 10:02 PM

I personally would have made a few changes, but that is mostly due to taste. I would have gone with the Intel 6420 , then used the extra bit of saved cash on an extra 2gb of RAM, which is dirt cheap atm. But that is something you can add later down the road. I also think that the 8600GT is a terrible midrange card, compared to how the 7600GT stacked against the 7800 anyways. I would have mabye put out the bit extra for a 8800 GT 320mb, but once again that is all up to taste *just glad you at least got a different brand harddrive*. A few P35 motherboards are also on the market now, which have much improved memory bandwidth etc, but nothing wrong with the 650i.

Also Render, I wouldn't say that AMD is a waste anymore. For the cost now, they are pretty competitive price/performance ratio. If you want a high end machine, then Core 2 Duo all the way. However, for MOST people who barely game if at all, AMD is currently very tempting. I just put together a AMD system for my mother. The Athlon 64 x2 3600 was only $66.00cdn, and that combined with 2gb of RAM which cost $80, *along with a 320gb Seagate hdd, Asus Mobo w/ AMD 690 IGP*, it's running VISTA with complete ease, and allows her to surf the web, to her picture stuff, emails, chess games etc.. , all built for under $350 cdn w/ taxes and shipping, although that excludes the case, dvd drive and psu as she had those already.

Anycase Omni, enjoy the new system, should be quiet and perform well.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Garret · Jul 17, 2007, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by Omnislash124

I'm don't think the 8600GTS dropped in quality, but that the 8800GTS card is just so much more amazing in comparison. I also wanted some leeway, just in case DirectX 10 games came out that I was interested in, so I needed a GeForce 8xxx series or Radeon HD2xxx series card. (But, from what I read, Radeon/ATI isn't doing too smoothly right now.) I did look at the 8800GTS, but it was quite expensive. (I think it was almost double the price of the 8600GTS.)

The big change these days is that the high end video cards are now more than 256bit interface. Where as in the past few generations, the high-end video car would be 256 and the midrange *ie 7600* were 128, which wasn't too bad. Now though the high-end are 384 to 512 , and the midrange are still only 128, meaning they just pale in comparison more to their predecessors. A lot of people would have liked have seen ATI and Nvidia step up and come out with a midrange card that had something like a 192-bit interface.

The problem with current dx10 cards too is that I would not buy them with the idea of playing future dx10 games. Even the 8800GTX and 2900XT currently run dx10 relatively... poorly =/. As for Ati's *poor* performance atm, that is due to a situation that is not unlike the whole N30 fiasco. Nvidia is a safer bet atm though, and I would have bought one myself over ATI this time around.

There's nowhere I can't reach.