Re: Need upgrade recommendations

Just remember that your TWO 7800 GTX PCI-e video cards will be costly and
will NOT be compatible with Windows Vista Full version coming out later this
year. Vista will require a new generation of video card that fully supports
DX 10, which will not be on the market for at least another 8 months.

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DaveW

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"Bob Cronin" <rlcronin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Lately my PC's gaming performance has seemed somewhat lacking and I am
> starting to consider yet-another-upgrade.
>
> I hear a lot about how AMD has the best gaming performance these days,
> but I've always been an Intel-sorta-guy, so I have no experience with
> building an AMD-based system (and am therefore somewhat more likely to
> make a mistake coming up with a good configuration).
>
> My current system has a P4C800E Deluxe mobo with 2GB of low latency
> Corsair memory, an ATI X850 PE AGP video card and a 3.4Ghz Intel
> (Northwood) P4 CPU. It also has a somewhat underpowered 480 watt Antec
> TruePower ps. My display is an NEC 20 inch 1600x1200 native resolutiuon
> LCD (and I like to run all my games at that resolution with the quality
> settings as high as they can go and still get playable framerates).
>
> I've been considering getting an A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo with yet-another-
> 2GB of low latency Corsair memory (TWINX2048-3200C2), a single 256MB BFG
> 7800GTX PCI-e video card (adding a second one later as my budget
> recovers from the assault ;-) and an Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (Toledo) CPU. At
> current street prices, this comes in just under $1500, which is about
> the most I can swing at the moment.
>
> Two questions. First, would this configuration yield significant
> performance gains over my current setup? If not, what AMD-based
> configuration would? Second, I suspect my existing ps won't cut it
> (true?) and so would like recommendations as to the minimum wattage I'd
> need (in addition to the above gear, I have 2 hard drives, a CDRW and a
> DVD burner in this box). Recommendations for good, clean, not-too-loud
> ps to replace it would be appreciated as well.
> --
> bc


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