Hi Folks,
I'm looking to buy a new machine, and would love to hear peoples thoughts on the 2 machines I'm looking at, both are about $1900.
1)
-Xblade case w/ 450 watt PS
-Athlon 64 FX 55 CPU
-Asus A8V Deluxe Mobo
-Radeon X800XT Platinum edition
OR
2)
-Xblade case w/ 500watt see through PS
-Athlon 64 3500+
-Asus nforce4 SLI Mobo
-(2) Geforce 6800GT 256mb PCI express video cards
Both share these attributes:
-1gb DDR 400 (512 x 2)
- (2) Seagate 80gb ata 150 8mb cache in RAID 0
-16x DVDROM
-SB live 24bit 7.1 sound card
Machine will do equal parts Gaming and 3D modeling/Photoshopping/Digital Video editing. I'd love to hear thoughts on any or all of the components I've selected. I'm basically trying to choose between Current Fastest AMD bliss or the future with PCI-express + SLI...
Many thanks,
ryan
I'm looking to buy a new machine, and would love to hear peoples thoughts on the 2 machines I'm looking at, both are about $1900.
1)
-Xblade case w/ 450 watt PS
-Athlon 64 FX 55 CPU
-Asus A8V Deluxe Mobo
-Radeon X800XT Platinum edition
OR
2)
-Xblade case w/ 500watt see through PS
-Athlon 64 3500+
-Asus nforce4 SLI Mobo
-(2) Geforce 6800GT 256mb PCI express video cards
Both share these attributes:
-1gb DDR 400 (512 x 2)
- (2) Seagate 80gb ata 150 8mb cache in RAID 0
-16x DVDROM
-SB live 24bit 7.1 sound card
Machine will do equal parts Gaming and 3D modeling/Photoshopping/Digital Video editing. I'd love to hear thoughts on any or all of the components I've selected. I'm basically trying to choose between Current Fastest AMD bliss or the future with PCI-express + SLI...
Many thanks,
ryan