Ordered New PC Parts

[meuge]

Meuge thanks, I dont' think I would be going

with the nforce 4 chip even though I want to. It's I cannot find a mobo

that will still take my agp 6600 gt vid card. I still like that card

and it will save me some dough for now. I did find this one though.

http://www.asrockamerica.com/Products/939DSATA2.htm

I

figured this and the venice core 3200+ is the best bang for the buck

while still using my current vid card. I can upgrade to pci express

down the road with this board and up my hardrive. I will never go SLI.

I can barely afford one vid card as it is.

220.00 dollar upgrade shipped from, newegg

This motherboard is supposed to be quite good, from what I hear. You're

right. The ASRock and the 3200 Venice for $150 is the best deal you can

get at this time, upgrade-wise.

[Shade]

meuge, too bad about the new GTO2's being "fixed".

That 7800GT is tempting, but I'm not sure how well it would work out

for me. I have a Samsung 780p DLP hook up as a 2nd monitor via DVI. The

ATI catalyst drivers are pretty good with custom resolutions. Any idea

how well Nvidea's drivers deal with custom res's? The last Nvidea card

I had wasn't too good with that, but that was about 2-3 years ago, so

they've probably made a lot of improvements.

[meuge]

I don't know. I haven't used an Nvidia card since I got my 9800Pro a year ago (Used a Geforce 4 4600 before then). Try this forum for your question:

Futuremark

It is the forum of the makers of 3DMark software, and the collective knowledge of the forum encompasses pretty much all an enthusiast needs to know about computer hardware.

[wheelman]

Meuge thanks again I wasn't sure about that brand mother board. I'm glad you heard good things. I love the graphics card I have now. Shade I have a nvidia 6600gt, agp and it has alot of options. Res, refresh rates so much I have no idea what i'm doing with it. It has auto calibration for flat panel monitors. Nvidia keeps pretty good updates. I can't find the res and refresh rate tool bar. It used to be down on the bottom bar, but I think I took it out of the start up menu. Just to see if it would speed things up ( like 4 swipes wasn't fast enough for xp pro). I don't think it matters to much when you have 1 gig of ram to do tiny little tweeks here and there. At least it hasn't for me. I think I'm gonna remove all my nvidia drivers and reinstall them. I think I may wait till I purchase pure video though.

http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce_6600.html

http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_24291.html