Willb Wrote:
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> Well it'll be a good few weeks before I buy
> anything yet so I think you are right about
> waiting for the 8800
. ANy sort of estimate on a
> time, weeks, months ?
No idea - I've seen no dates banded around. It's not new technology (all they're doing is replacing the 10 64mb RAM chips with 10 32mb ones) so it's down entirely on when nV decide to do it. It could be 2 weeks, it could be 2 months. It's still just strong rumour at the moment.
Willb Wrote:
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> I'm am never ever ever going to get an asrock
> motherboard ever again. My current one has been
> nothing but trouble (k7s8x), I deliberately
> avoided asrock for a reason
.
That will be the 'S' part of the board causing the problems. The 'S' denotes SiS (the chipset).... evil. Pure evil. *shudders*
I've built a few PCs around ASRock boards now, and they really are excellent boards - as I said, it's just the budget end of ASUS - they're just ASUS boards that aren't intended for enthusiasts overclocking. Brilliant value for money.
Willb Wrote:
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> Ill have a look around for the intel based board,
> although what difference will it actually make, It
> shouldn't matter if I use a nv graphics card with
> an intel (not nforce) chipset right ?
As Neil said, none at all. The only advantage an nV-based board has is if you want to go SLi (using identical 2 graphics cards to speed up gaming) which isn't ever good value. Can be fast, but it's certainly not good value (as you're can never get twice the performance).
Willb Wrote:
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> edit: Cheapest i965 board I can see on scan. By
> cheapest, I'm not trying to contradict what I said
> about the budget brands, but its not a budget
> series is it
. Also, what does the i965 offer
> that the cheaper 775 doesn't, in terms of features
> and support for cpu and memory speeds etc?
The basic P5B (iG965 - just i965 with the Intel graphics built in - a nice bonus (you don't have to use it)) is going cheaper, as is the P5Bi965 that's currently out of stock. That new board that you mentioned is looking quite good though - it'll give you plenty of overclocking headroom should you choose to boost the performance up a bit (as a total guess, I'd imagine you'd get your E6300 to go from around 1.8GHz to 2.8GHz or even over 3GHz (most do, but it does take a decent board to do it).
Gigabyte have a couple of really cheap i965 boards on Scan (which would be alright I suppose) as do MSI (wouldn't touch with a bargepole from my own experience).
Willb Wrote:
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> What exactly is PEG link, I understood it to
> be the connector to connect the 2 graphics cards
> together in an sli set-up, but reading through
> that description there Is no mention of multiple
> gpus .?
It's supposedly a feature of ASUS boards which overclocks the graphics card(s). I've no idea how it works or even if it has any effect. In my board (P5B Deluxe) it just seems like a complete gimmick for another logo on the box
If the E4300 is available before you buy your CPU, get that instead. It's the same speed as the E6300, yet it has a higher multiplier and a lower Front Side Bus speed. In simple terms, it will let you overclock the bejesus out of the thing on motherboards that can't reach high FSB speeds (ie, the cheaper ones). 3.0GHz (or 100Mhz faster than Intel's current fastest chip) should be easy on any i965 board then - not bad for a £100.