Buy now?
Ok guys im in a dilema.
Theese are my planned new PC specs.
AMD Athlon 64 3000 (Socket 754) - £133
Abit KV8 Pro (Socket 754) Motherboard - £73
GeIL 512MB PC3200 Golden Value - £70
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 Serial ATA 160GB 8MB Cache - £74
XFX GeForce FX 6800 GT 256MB DDR3 - £290
Logitech X-620 6.1 Speakers - £80
LG GSA 4081BB 8x DVD±R/±RW Drive - £58
+ 100 for misc items.
The game im waiting for is HL2 and i was wondering what the prices of theese items are going to be like when HL2 comes out(assume late summer) is it worth waiting?
Is the saving only going to be like 40 quid or is it going to be substantial?
Theese are my planned new PC specs.
AMD Athlon 64 3000 (Socket 754) - £133
Abit KV8 Pro (Socket 754) Motherboard - £73
GeIL 512MB PC3200 Golden Value - £70
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 Serial ATA 160GB 8MB Cache - £74
XFX GeForce FX 6800 GT 256MB DDR3 - £290
Logitech X-620 6.1 Speakers - £80
LG GSA 4081BB 8x DVD±R/±RW Drive - £58
+ 100 for misc items.
The game im waiting for is HL2 and i was wondering what the prices of theese items are going to be like when HL2 comes out(assume late summer) is it worth waiting?
Is the saving only going to be like 40 quid or is it going to be substantial?
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I was thinking that the 6800GT would lose some of its price because it's super new. And has only just started coming into the UK in bulk.
KingFish
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Personally I would say get an X800 or an X800 xt, but it's hard to say where nVidia's top will sit against ATi's top because there haven't been many benchmarkser
MM
I have read up on the geil ram and it does seem very decent.
Raid 0 haven't read greatly into that. I did read that if one of you're hard drives fails you're screwed.
Oh damn i thought i clicked on general hardware :P Sorry about that.
KingFish
entr0py. I decided long and hard about the graphics card and i chose nV because i like the full 16 pipeline goodness. And the SM3.0 which i will be using once i get into directx API work later this year
Why geeky? there dosen't seem to be a huge difference at the moment. That warrants the price increase. And S754 is still going to be around for a while. And when the time that socket bites the dust i will probably do a full system upgrade.
I am going to be using this system for atleast 2-3 years with maybe a processor upgrade and a new graphics card later on in it's life span.
Specs i was running 2 months ago.
650mhz duron
256 pc 100 spread out over 3 slots :P
7 gig harddrive lol"!
At the moment im running a 1ghz duron
with a 80 gig harddrive lol
KF
Here's a link to the article.
When we moved up to the faster CPUs such as the Pentium4 at 3.0GHz or the Socket 754 Athlon64 3000+, we saw performance skyrocket and saw the performance differences become very noticeable between the cards. This pattern continued with the Pentium4 3.4GHz and the Socket 939 Athlon64 3500+. As the CPU speed increased so did the difference in performance and IQ abilities, typically showing the X800XT-PE and X800Pro gaining in performance more than the 6800Ultra, especially in FarCry.
If you compare the price points of the cards' MSRP, you will find that the GeForce 6800Ultra at $499 MSRP should compete against the Radeon X800XT-PE, which also has an MSRP of $499. The X800Pro comes in at a lower price point of $399. You would think that video cards set at the same price would perform similarly, but as we have shown in our initial X800 series review, our recent VisionTek X800Pro review, and now this article, this is not the case. The X800Pro at one hundred dollars less than the GeForce 6800Ultra was either matching or beating it in game performance.
The AMD 754 seems like a good choice right now ...with the upcoming release of Doom III I think you're good to go if you follow your instinct. I would definitely invest in Ati at this point however.
My thoughts on RAID 0 is this. If you plan of doing heavy duty video streaming and video editing then RAID 0 is a good choice ...but only as a secondary disk setup. If you want the setup to last (and some may argue) I would not put the OS on it or boot to it. Booting to the array wears out the boot drive signifigantly.
Boot to an sata stand alone drive such as a raptor even and have the array setup seperately and it should last you a long time and give you oustanding editing and streaming performance.
My $.02
Good luck
I will order once work sorts out my paycheck that they gammyed up >:(
Any other comments on spec etc etc?