Re: PC Upgrade time

Alex Ferrier wrote:
The time has come for a PC Upgrade,

Currently I'm running my ageing old AMD 64 3500+ with a
6800GT (AGP, the main reason for the upgrade) graphics
card and 1Gb RAM on a Gigabyte skt939 motherboard, all
housed in a BFO Akasa case and cooled by a mainly
Alphacool sourced passive water-cooling kit with extra
water blocks for the GPU and Chipset.

I fancy meself some swanky new hardware and I'm
looking to upgrade to an Intel Core 2 Duo (or quad) and
a new motherboard, GPU and RAM.

The problem being, I can't decide between Intel/NVIDIA
chipsets on either a reliability or SLI/Crossfire basis.
I've also read rather underwhelming things about DDR3
at the moment and can't decide if the extra cost of the
newer technology is worth it at the moment, considering
that DDR2 prices are dropping steeply atm.

It's most unlike me to dither, but I'm really stumped
at the moment. So, any and all recommendations from
the FOAK for CPU/motherboard/RAM/Graphics card
combinations would be most welcome.

Ta.

Money no object ?? You want one of these then.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-skulltrail.html

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/D5400XS/index.htm

It does somewhat rock, and blows everything I've benchmarked before into the
weeds.

Oh, and it does SLI & Crossfire !

Being a bit more sensible - Nvidia are producing some very stable chipset at
the moment.

I wouldn't trust an ATI Chipset Motherboard as far as I could throw the
wafer the chip fell from.

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