I likes overkill- it means when it starts to degrade after years of abuse- i can still play what I have perfectly fine.
and honestly am I even going to notice a difference if my ram is 1066 or slightly higher?
Personally I have no quaffs with any company right now, I've had 1 MSI and 1 ASUS motherboard before, both worked fine in there lifetimes, Quantum Fireball HDD (known to burn out and catch fire) Western Digital HDD that lasted major abuse for 7 years....being my first HDD that was all mine... (lots o'porn and virus later lol man.. to be young again)
The only thing I really don't like are some cases... HP and GATEWAY.... and for cases I've got some nice sheets of acrylic I think Iam going to fashion into my own case.... 2- 2x2ft sheets should be plenty lol
Oh and btw I calculated what it would take to make it DDR3 rams/(4GB) compared to 800s and its roughly 500 dollars more lol. So not worth it right now... rather spend 500 more bucks and get 2 more vid cards and Quadfire myself some 3870's LOL
or- since they are coming.. but when??? the HD3870x2(3890) or whatever they will be called....
anyone know when these are supposed to hit? Iam nearly certain I have my build now... I have been flip-flopping with Intel and AMD for a while.. its been a really tough choice really.. despite benchmarks and all that googley, the only thing going to break it is after I buy everything else- if AMD has come back to take the crown from Intel by force- then I'll have to find another motherboard.
Decided: Against Nvidia. why you might ask... it's fairly simple.. without overclocking the HD 3870 beats most Nvidia stuff- expecially in price. and I will NOT OC the Video. (Personal choice) another reason being I've had my Radeon 9000 for .. 7 years I think now.. and its only recently been screwing up on Higher paced games, 7 years.. thats quite dependable, before It I blew some Nvidia card, and before it I had a good ol Rage 128 and Diamond Stealth card lol.
Soooo Sli OUT Cross/Quadfire IN - not that I plan to start with 2 video cards.. it would defeat my learning experiance. (Iam going from what I have now- a "POS" no one would pay 300 bucks for- to something almost state-of-the-art - I need to learn what it feels like "normally" before getting 4GB Ram, 2-4 Video cards and all that. 1 Cpu (Normal clock) 2GB ram (Vista) 2 HDD (sata) 1 video card (Very "god like" compared to what I have now.) Then if games are laggy or choppy or not to my liking- pop another video in. or more ram...
and FYI if you disagree look at hard facts on these 2 the powercolor is the one I plan to get- unless the duals come out before then. the 8800GTS (G92) was reccomended to me.
GPU GeForce 8800GTS (G92) / Radeon HD 3870
Core clock 675MHz / 800MHz
Stream Processors 128 / 320
Memory Clock 1940MHz / 2400MHz
Memory Size 512MB / 512MB
Memory Interface 256-bit / 256-bit
Memory Type GDDR3 / GDDR4
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theres quite a bit of difference in core clock, memory clock and stream proccessors.... sure 150Mhz prolly wont be noticed, but 500ish memory clock will.
