GFX Card

[Load_HeavyLoad]

Well im totally revamping my PC based around an AMD athlon XP barton 3200 and Asus a7n8x was wondering what kinda GFX card will be good for my pc since i have no clue about em and T-X thanks for the help about the other Shit xD

[___T-X____]

np, he doesnt want p4
he has £650 to spend

I say Matched pc3200 DDR400 Corsair value (2x512mb)
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe (I <3 this board, also Tom's Hardware guide motherboard of the year 2003)
AMD XP 3200 @400 fsb OEM
http://www.scythe.co.jp/en/kamakaze.htm - Fan
Artic Silver cpu paste

Thermaltake case (http://www.thermaltake.com/xaserCase/WinGo/v8000a.htm) - Case ( a dream to work inside)

I cant recommend a GFX card because im an overclockers and u aint so you want a good standard card.

AMD 64 ? - yes, when some decent mobo's come out in about a year with non-ECC ram

my offering.

no p4 trollers, he dont like them

[Scikar]

How much is available for the GFX card? Can't go wrong with a 9800 Pro really.

[___T-X____]

1'd say about 150 after the things ive said

[Load_HeavyLoad]

can i use an SE instead i like having spare cash :)

[Cytaur]

i'd say wait until september for new generation of vidcards....

Right now I'm on FX 5200 128MB, I have money and I'm tempted to get something like FX 5950 but I rather wait for NV-40 or NV-45

[Load_HeavyLoad]

well im getting the new pc so i mgiht aswell get the hot shit of GFX now
then maybe uodate it l8a

[___T-X____]

i fancy a Leadtek 5900 XT 128mb Geforce and flashing the bios

[Scikar]

I have to be honest really, I have no idea what's best suited for you. I had cash to spare so I compared everything I could and picked what I thought was the best - 9800XT. I'm not the one to ask about mid-end cards but the 9800XT has impressed me no end, and my other comp uses a 9000 Pro which has proved to be solid and outperformed equivalent NVidia gear. It's also better kitted out.

I would certainly say ATi over NVidia though (at the risk of starting an argument which doesn't answer your question), the comparisons I made seemed to show the GeFs being nice cards but too slow under the heavy strain of AA and anisotropy whereas Rads seem to handle it fine. I always figured they were pretty even, until I found about NVidia fixing their drivers to give false scores in 3dMark. If a company has to fix the results of benchmarks to get a good score then that says to me they don't have faith in their own hardware and have to use backhanded methods to make an inferior product look superior.

Thus, ATi, in my humble opinion.

[shodanjr_gr]

You could get a 9800 SE and then softmod+oc it to a 9800 Pro, point is that this endevour has only about a 50% success rate. A stock 9800 SE has real crap performance (even worse than a 9600 PRO) but a softmoded one gets quite good (on my system i get 5600 3d Marks).

[___T-X____]

And HDD

Western Digital Serial ATA (SATA) 36.7gb 10,000 RPM drive.

[shodanjr_gr]

40 gigs is WAY to small for our times. Heck i mean if u put UT2k4,BFV and Farcry on that drive uve already spent 25% of ur capacity. Get at least 80 gigs or 120 if possible.

[___T-X____]

Games should be kept on a 36.7gb drive. Do not use this drive for anything else but games and your os

everything else onto a second drive, and your system will run sweet

[Scikar]

The page with info on the fan is loading slowly on my 56k, and I'm a bit busy, but if it's a decent fan then to save some cash a common trick is to get the 2500+ proc with 333FSB and overclock it towards 400MHz. It's the same proc just the 2500+ runs at a lower clockspeed. I'd guess the ones picked for 2500+ are lower quality, in the same way that 9800XTs are the best quality 9800 cards, and crap 9800s are turned into 9800SEs, but a good cooling system should sort that. Having said that, the only person I know personally with such a system has water cooling on it (though it's at 390-something FSB running at 17 degrees C).

[___T-X____]

Take that dam Santa hat off lol

He aint an overclocker.

the RAm and AMD xp3200 is in sync at 400 from boot

[Scikar]

Ah, fair enough.

And I'll change the avatar when someone makes me a new one which I like. I can't find where I saved the original avatar and my projects with Gimp take far too long. So I'm waiting for someone to make me a cool replacement. :)