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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Heretic on February 11, 2007, 07:38:30 PM
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Fellow gamers,
I'm going to have a new rig built finally! I do not know what MOBO is compatible with a Intel Core 2 Duo. I need help on this if anyone can?
Heres the parts I have picked out:
Video Card
XFX GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB PCIe x16
Monitor
Acer 19 inch 8ms LCD
RAM
2GB not sure what is compatible with MOBO yet? Need help here
Harddrive
250GB Western
Soundcard
Creative SB X-Fi
xtreme gamer
Wireless Keyboad/Mouse Logitech MX3000
CD Rom DVD not sure what is needed. But would like to copy/burn/store files and music. Need help here too.
Anyone have any suggestions please feel free to chime in. Wife wanted a new puter about 6 months ago and I made a thread about that but we didn't get one then. Now she is ready for new rig. Thanks so much
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before you buy that video card - you may want to check this thread (http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198967) - I hear the 8800's have problems in AH...
I've put together a few machines but am far from being an expert so I will defer to the others on the rest of your hardware choices...
you may even want to check with these guys (http://www.gcworkshop.com/) they'll ship out a barebones that's been tested and burned in for 48 hours - I've never bought from them but have heard some good things about them...
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hey gunner.
I have 8800GTS and at the moment nvidia have really bad drivers for these two cards. If you do go with that card i'll be very interested to see how you get on. I hope they come out with a good version will most likely be some geeks somewhere write their own ones that are better than nvidias.
I think they are wasting too much time worrying about vista and DX10 to come up with anything worthwhile for XP. Time will tell.