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October 31st, 2008, 11:03 PM
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I will be getting a video card within the month, just not now..any advice for a damn good card? | 
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November 1st, 2008, 01:15 AM
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Be sure to set the scratch file in Photoshop to use the Seagate drive...
The card will depend on the time you buy and your budget...
If its further than 2-3 months out, theres no point in even speculating... | |
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November 1st, 2008, 01:37 AM
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I see, damn hard choice sooooo want the 9550 but not worth the upgrade since most likely I will end up staying with the 6600 for 2 years.. | |
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November 1st, 2008, 03:03 AM
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November 1st, 2008, 03:27 AM
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Nice!
Your gonna be VERY happy with that...
Make sure you ask ANYTHING your unsure of, while building...
Out of curiousity, why did you settle on that motherboard?
You hadnt mentioned it before this...
Just curious... Not much of a difference | |
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November 1st, 2008, 04:51 AM
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Thanks  .
Yeha that mobo is great plus one of my buddies use it...so I know first hand its great.
Also my buddy thought me out of the 9550...he said the exact same thing all you guys said...Q6600 all the way saved me money.
Only thing I did not listen to you guys was the case...I just want a big case for 2 SLI for the future...and enough room for me not to cry about it later on.
This is going to be my first system that I am building...any suggestions?
When I am done I will make sure I put some pics up on this thread. | |
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November 1st, 2008, 06:07 AM
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Well with that board, as to SLI, you'll have to opt for Crossfire, as it only supports ATI cards in Crossfire... which isn't a big deal since it'll be more flexible with what cards can be linked together... the one definite plus of the two technologies, although both as JP said, generally for gaming is wasted money, unless of course you can snag a good deal on the cards... or using for something other than gaming... but Crossfire you can link more than just an Identical GPU card... from what I understand & recently found out, its possible to link a HD4870 & an HD4850 together... where as if this was SLI it would have to be something like both cards would have to have the exact same chip (can be different speeds, memory capacities & brands of cards, just that it will slow the fastest card to slowest cards speeds & you'll lose the extra memory on one card to match the lower cards capacity, so if you had a 512MB card & a 1GB card, you'd lose 512MB on the 1GB card)
anyways, looks good as is.
The Q6600 will be plenty fine, especially going up from whatever you have now...
I've got a Q6600 also (just not installed yet), main reason I got it besides the sweet deal this past spring, was...
1. makes for a great number cruncher for Distributed Computing Projects, compared to my slower Dual core CPU.
2, nice for gaming, granted Quads aren't fully used in modern games, unlike most Dual cores, but for games coming out over the next couple years, it will be...
3. the most important one for me, I play with some 3D Rendering/animation programs in my spare time sometimes (mainly static, still 3D renders, no real animation yet, so mainly uses CPU processing for rendering, GPU helps in this case, but I get better results with faster & more CPU Cores) & the Q6600 will drop my render times considerably with out having to set up a network rendering node on my other PC (which I'll probably do anyways), but my Core 2 Duo E6400 is only 2.13GHz per core, the Q6600 has twice as many cores & runs 270MHz faster per core than my current CPU, so hoping render times will be cut by more than 50%...
Granted the 9550 is a bit faster on FSB speeds & 400MHz faster per core, but you'll maybe only knock off 10-20% of your rendering times in things like Photoshop, I suspect, at best, it won't be as drastic as using a single core & going to a dual core, or Dual to Quad, etc, | |
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November 1st, 2008, 06:16 AM
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good job Q6600 owns ANY other quad core IMO for the price.
but yea since u got a crossifre motherboard and if you plan on adding another card youll NEED to go ATI! ati is the best go look at my post in your other thread! | |
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November 3rd, 2008, 12:39 AM
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JP, this is the first cpu that I am building...any advices or tutorials that you can direct me to on assembling a computer?
I know basic stuff like putting on a video card, adding a sound card...adding a pic card :P...ok this is getting ridiculous ahha.
But yeha, I need a good tutorial with images. | |
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November 3rd, 2008, 12:57 AM
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