New Gaming Rig (Overwhelmed, Advice Welcome) - Page 2

Aficionado · #11 (**permalink**) August 28, 2008, 04:54 AM

Wow, thanks for all the suggestions guys. Now I have a lot of reading up to do

. Dwayne I think at this point I'd rather buy new.

Couple questions come to mind:
Would two EVGA 8800GT's work just as well as say a single GTX 260 or 280?
Also what is the max amount of RAM the p5q Pro supports?
Are Mushkin and Seagate the brand names of the day for RAM and HDD?

Jon_di2 · #12 (**permalink**) August 28, 2008, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Aficionado

Wow, thanks for all the suggestions guys. Now I have a lot of reading up to do

. Dwayne I think at this point I'd rather buy new.

Couple questions come to mind:
Would two EVGA 8800GT's work just as well as say a single GTX 260 or 280?
Also what is the max amount of RAM the p5q Pro supports?
Are Mushkin and Seagate the brand names of the day for RAM and HDD?

You might have SLI issues with 2 EVGA 8800GT's and you would need a motherboard that supports SLI, while with one GTX 260 or GTX 280 you would not need a SLI mobo... but as far as FPS is concerned 2 8800GT's would be better then a GTX 260, but not as good as a GTX 280.

It supports 8 gigs

Mushkin is, along with a couple others, but you can't go wrong with Mushkin. Western Digital seems to be the brand name of the day for HD's though, specifically their 640GB HD. But Seagate is good too.

Aficionado · #13 (**permalink**) August 28, 2008, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Jon_di2

You might have SLI issues with 2 EVGA 8800GT's and you would need a motherboard that supports SLI, while with one GTX 260 or GTX 280 you would not need a SLI mobo... but as far as FPS is concerned 2 8800GT's would be better then a GTX 260, but not as good as a GTX 280.

It supports 8 gigs

Mushkin is, along with a couple others, but you can't go wrong with Mushkin. Western Digital seems to be the brand name of the day for HD's though, specifically their 640GB HD. But Seagate is good too.

Thanks for the info Jon. Been going through the process of price matching on NCIX and have a few more questions.
I see the p5q pro does not support SLI, got any recommendations for a comparable (in price and quality) mobo that does support SLI?

Also, while reading a review of the GTX's I noticed they don't support DirectX 10.1...is that a big deal?

I glimpsed something about needing microsoft vista 64 bit to take advantage of more than 3GB's of RAM (not really sure what this was referring to, any idea?) Just curious cause I would rather stay with XP but if Vista is required for newer and future games than I'll go with it.

Cheers.

yamawho · #14 (**permalink**) August 28, 2008, 06:32 AM

Intel chipsets don't support SLI so you will need to go with an Nvidia chipset however ...

enaberif · #15 (**permalink**) August 28, 2008, 06:38 AM

Don't worry about SLI its not worth it anymore.

The cost and time is the same if you bought 1 high end card.

Aficionado · #16 (**permalink**) August 28, 2008, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by enaberif

Don't worry about SLI its not worth it anymore.

The cost and time is the same if you bought 1 high end card.

Ah ok. Guess I'm looking at a GTX card then.

bojangles · #17 (**permalink**) August 28, 2008, 09:39 AM

Below is a build that I made for you with a SPVA panel 24" LCD monitor for just over $1800. I realize that this is over your budget, BUT, these prices are regular prices and without mail-in-rebates. Also, getting a premier partnership at NCIX might save money on this setup (this is a maybe because I don't have one so I don't know exactly how it works). VIP would also be a good idea for ExpresRMA, again from NCIX. I also left the pixel coverage empty, but it's really only $30 to add this coverage that could save you a lot of money in the end ifyou get the bad end of the stick.

I'm sure you could price match some of this much lower so remember this price might be more than golden for you hehe.