roybfr
06-22-2005, 09:20 PM
Ordered most of my stuff over the past few days but have been undecided about the CPU and Video card. Bought an Abit SLI board, 1g of Kingston HyperX (512x2) and a Antec True Power TCII-550. Already have an Antec full tower case, a dew SATA hard drive, cd/dvd drives and a SB Audigy 2 ZS from my old system. Was originally going to get 2 6800 GT's, not just for games but I would like to run 3 monitors (used to have a Parhelia). But after looking at the reviews of the 7800 it almost seems like the better buy and wanted to get some input on it.
On the processor side of things I was looking at a 3700+ SD. My intention was to OC it a little bit (something I have not done since the slot A days) and maybe try out some liquid cooling. My other two options are a X2 4200 or a 4000+, anything more then that and the price jump gets a little much. The X2's kind of look good since they perform better on encoding media, as have been converting a bit of stuff for my PSP as of late. So would also like some in put there.
BTW this is my first post here and wanted to say there is a lot of great info that helped me sort though a bit of stuff to help make choices on some of my other purchases.
On the processor side of things I was looking at a 3700+ SD. My intention was to OC it a little bit (something I have not done since the slot A days) and maybe try out some liquid cooling. My other two options are a X2 4200 or a 4000+, anything more then that and the price jump gets a little much. The X2's kind of look good since they perform better on encoding media, as have been converting a bit of stuff for my PSP as of late. So would also like some in put there.
BTW this is my first post here and wanted to say there is a lot of great info that helped me sort though a bit of stuff to help make choices on some of my other purchases.