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Pyro-Chris · Thu May 05, 2005 5:19 pm

Hey people what do you think of this as my next system

Shuttle SN25P Socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64/Sempron nVIDIA nForce4 2x 184Pin Barebone - Retail

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor - Retail

SAPPHIRE 100600L-Red Radeon X800PRO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI-Express x16 Video Card - Retail

OCZ 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit System Memory - Retail

Going to overclock to 2.4 w/ 2000fsb
and planning on overclocking the graphics card and flashing the xt bios into it to open up all 16 pipes

plannning on building this late june early july :lol:

Wajo · Thu May 05, 2005 5:41 pm

Get something other than the x800 pro, maybe an x800xl or a 6800gt

MadCatz · Thu May 05, 2005 5:42 pm

The majority of your system seems good to me (although the other guys could help you more with that), but I would like to warn you that the PCI-E version of the x800 Pro does not unlock to 16 pipes. Only the AGP version does. Since you are already not planning to build until July, I would wait as ATi and Nvidia's new chips are coming out in May/June.

O and Welcome to the Forums!

Pyro-Chris · Thu May 05, 2005 6:02 pm

Ok i guess i wont get the x800pro pci express maybe ill go with the nvidia 6800gt or something let me re config it

Pyro-Chris · Thu May 05, 2005 6:13 pm

So what should i do about the video card im not sure what to get know and i dont want to spend over 300 on it...

And thank you for welcominging me to your forums

Pyro-Chris · Thu May 05, 2005 6:22 pm

Heres what ill get ASUS N6600GT/TOP/128 Geforce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 PCI-Express x16 Video Card - OEM OC version

runs at 128mb mem 128bit 550mhz core 1100mhz mem

and ill overclcok it to 580 1200

good? im not into spending money on an xt or xl or gt im kinda on a budget

MadCatz · Thu May 05, 2005 6:49 pm

That card is ok, however I would get the x800 for $232 because it has extra ram (256mb) and 12 pipelines compared to the 6600GTs 128mb of ram and 8 pipelines. You probably could overclock the x800 as well.

x800 for $232 Link

Pyro-Chris · Thu May 05, 2005 7:36 pm

I think it would be better to have the 6600gt because of higher clockspeeds and also i really dont like the x800 its either the pro xl xt but i wont get them because i dont feel like spending the money for those

i would the pro but it doesnt unlock ><

lethal · Thu May 05, 2005 8:00 pm

GPU performance is related to clockspeed and pipelines, so a 500Mhz part with 8 pipes will offer a fill rate of roughly 4000 megapixel per second while a 12 piped card at 400Mhz will offer a fillrate of 4800 megapixel per second, so the second card, without taking into account architectural differences, offers higher performance than first one.

The key here is parallelism so a 4000 Mhz GPU with a single pipe will offer roughly the same performance of a 1 MHz GPU with 4000 pipelines....

dragmor · Thu May 05, 2005 8:21 pm

Looks good. My only gripe would be you picked an ugly ass case. If you want the NF4 then you have no choice (for the moment). But personally I would go for the ST20G5 or SN95G5

Wajo · Thu May 05, 2005 8:37 pm

Well, if you don't want to spend over 300 dlls, you can get the x800 xl for just that, if you cant find it at etailers, compusa used to have it for it msrp.

Pyro-Chris · Fri May 06, 2005 2:43 pm

Well i re configed it and heres what it is

3200+venice core oem
512x2 ocz rev2
evga 6800gt
shuttle sn25p

1100$$

thanks

also if someone can help me out the and tell me whats so better about the venice core than the normal 3200+ i heard you can overclock more or less power idk help me out

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