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Postby Excruciating on Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:12 pm

Aah, it's a storrage for the most frequently used programs to gain acces to them faster since the computer is working faster than your harddisc the cache is compromising for this difference.

Higher cache = faster processing then.

Buying a better processor is cheaper than watercooling then.
I'm going to buy a pretty good processor then, and in a few years I might add the watercooling as a part of the upgrading.
With the MOBO you've chosen, can I put new graphic cards in it ? Will they fit and will it run them?
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Postby johneva on Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:28 pm

Yeah erm well no larger cache does not mean quicker processing exactly but less waiting time for the data to process.

Yeah that MOBO I selected has two PCI-E slots and is crossfire compatiable. So yes you can have any of the new Graphics cards that are on the market at the moment and as PCI-E is still quite new you should be ok for quite a long time.

With it being crossfire compatiable you can run two ATI cards at the same time if you desire, you would need a master card and then a slave card to do this and at nearly £300 each for the X1900 series were talking serious money.

If you wish to run Nivia cards instead of ATI then you will wanna look for the SLI compatiable version MOBO. Like this one or the one above it.

Asus P5N32 SLi Deluxe nForce4 SLi X16 (Socket 775) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-117-AS)
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Postby Excruciating on Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:39 pm

I only see two and three slots of RAM in those ..

The one above is a lot cheaper. What's missing??
Why should I choose Nvidia over ATI?
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Postby johneva on Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:00 pm

Na they still both have four slots for RAM.

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I am not the best person to ask that qestion really as I have a bias opinion cos I have a system running on an ATI X1900 XT so I would say use ATI cos you will get a better card for your money, but others say you will get a better card for your money if you go with Nivia its more personal preferance really.
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Postby Excruciating on Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:05 pm

Okay, it's actually more about comparing what they do and judge out from the budget.

I really don't care if it's ATI or NVIDIA.
If the graphic card you've chosen is the cheapest fpr what it does, I'll take it.

I think I'm going to try make a NVIDIA and an ATI when I'm going to buy CPU's in a month. Then compare them.
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Postby Excruciating on Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:44 pm

Okay, problems I think ..

I'm a bit confused. I'm running this same question at another forum.
The RAM you've chosen won't work will it?

DDR = AMD
DDR2 = Pentium

And the MOBO doesn't support crossfire?
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Postby johneva on Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:21 am

Why wont the RAM I chose work?

The MOBO is DDR2 and so is the RAM I chose.

Yeah your right after taking another look over that MOBO it dont have crossfire support, if you want crossfire support from an Asus board you will need the same MOBO I have got by the looks of it.

Asus P5WD2-E Premium Intel 975X

It is another £50 though.

It runs aon a much better chipset though and got a few other good features that the other board dont have, it also support the Pentium extreame editon procs aswell if you ever decide to upgrade to one of the procs.
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Postby Excruciating on Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:59 am

I don't mind paying a little extra if it's well spend. Wich it sounds like it is.
Can I run two graphic cards, an over clocked PSU (probally not much because I'm such a p****), without having it overheated, burning or even being able to run at all, with all the extra electricity it will need (will the PSU provide that?)?

and oh yeah, I think a CD-ROM disk would come in handy.. Anything specifik I should be looking for?
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Postby johneva on Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:28 am

Right if you do plan on running crossfire in the future as you just mentioned power becomes a new problem and there are only certain PSUs that are recommended for crossfire setups the 700watt version of the FSP epsilon being one of them.

Here is a good article on that PSU.

This even even more money again the one I first recommended to you was the 500 watt version for £58 this 700watt version is £112

Then as I mentioned earlyer in this thread at nerly £300each for the graphics cards your talking serious money.

Heat should not be to much of a problem as the Graphics cards exhuast most of there heat direct out though one of expansion slots in the back of your case, also aslong as your case has half deasent cooling then it will keep the case temp at a reasonable temp.

As for which cd-rom drive to get not a clue matey I have never got one I have only ever bought a Sony CD/DVD Dual Layer ReWriter for £25 and dont think there is any real diffrences between makes anyways.

Looking at it Overclockers only do the one CD-ROM drive and that is Samsung for £10

It is always a good idea to search for reviews on a product in Google or something before getting it though as if there are any well know problems you should find out by doing this.

Aswell as doing what your doing now and asking for advise on forums just dont alway belive all you read put a bit of research in too, some people will give advise based on opinion and not fact sometimes and not make this clear when they tell ya.
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Postby Excruciating on Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:08 pm

Okay, I'll make sure to keep that in mind.

Will I ever need two graphic cards.. Isn't it just showing off?

If the MOBO is able to run newer Graphic cards, I'll just upgrade when it's needed..
I think it's a bit more reasonable..
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