My New Rig

thats the board, and yes MSI is one of the best brands out there. get this board and a LEADTEK or BFG 6800ultra or a ATI X850XT PE
 
no that board is a PCI-EX and not a AGP. look for a PCI-EX card. the 6600gt will play almost any game out today at high settings but!!! since you'll only be using 1 card i would suggest even geting just the 6800nu. good brands are:

MSI
BFG
LEADTEK
dunno about ASUS for video cards.
 
if you are going with 3500+ get the venice core. It should be that much more expensive. and yes newegg has it.
 
Yeah I have an ASUS A8N-SLI and it isn't bad, but certainly not the best. I'd get the MSI or Gigabyte board. And definitely get a PCI-E 6600 GT.
 
ownage said:
if you are going with 3500+ get the venice core. It should be that much more expensive. and yes newegg has it.
They only have the venice core with OEM builds.. and I'd rather buy retail because of the warranty.

I've decided on this card:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=321943&affiliate=pgmsi

And this motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130484

So the final builds of everything I'm getting now are:

MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - $142.00
URL: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130484

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor - $267.00
URL: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103514


Western Digital Caviar RE WD2500SD 250GB 7200 RPM 8M Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - $150.00
URL: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144179


ASPIRE X-Navigator ATXA8NW-AL/500 Silver/Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 500W Power Supply - $155.00
URL: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811144089


CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory - $80.00
URL: http://www2.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145440


MSI NX6800GTX-T2D256E GeForce 6800GT PCI Express 256MB DDR3 Video Card w/TV-Out & DVI Retail - $339.00
URL: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=321943&affiliate=pgmsi


PLEXTOR Black 12X DVD+R 4X DVD+RW 8X DVD-R 4X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 8M Cache SATA DVD Burner - $106.50
URL: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827131329


ZALMAN CNPS7000B-Cu LED 2 Ball Blue LED Light Cooling Fan - $49.99
URL: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118119


Arctic Silver "ARCTIC SILVER 5" Thermal Compound - $13.49
URL: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835100008

Everything now brings it to 1300.. any chance of saving some money, or is it just the better choice to go with everything?
 
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