Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Tandy
hey that's sorta what i wanna get

Athlon 64 3400+
i was gonna go Nforce 3, but is 4 better?
Geforce 6600GT/6800 Ultra (when they come down in price)
Case with 350W psu, is that enough?
512mb DDR400

Tandy

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You will want to look at a 400W PSU at least for the 6800 Ultra.  nForce4 has PCI-Express, SATA-II (which has NCQ for added performance on supported drives) and compatability with Dual Core Athlon64's too.  The KT800 (AGP) & KT890 (PCI-Express) are very good chipsets, while not having the features of the nForce 4 they perform just as good.

If you can get Dual Chanel Memory as it will double the Memory Bandwidth from 3.2 GB/s to 6.4 GB/s.

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Originally posted by Animal
i got a ATI Radeon x700   an works well, .. i'll never touch an nvidia till i hear promising good reports bout them

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Yes, the X700 Pro is a good card, the replacement for the sub standard X600, just a shame ATI couldn't put the X700XT into production.

Consider this a good report for nVidia's 6xxx series.  I use a 6600GT & a 6800GT with no problems at all, unlike my X800 which never has played nicely.  I'm a PC Engineer by trade and right now nVidia would get my vote and will hopefully reclaim second place in the Graphics chipset market (Intel are in 1st place ).