Aight...soon going to spec up a new comp, so my AMD 1800+ can collect dust. Unless im gonna make it a bb account ^^

Im gonna try a Pentium4 this time. Been using AMD all the time, but a friend of mine been having a lot of good experience with the P4. Both gaming and stability.

So far im pretty aware of what to get, but unsure regarding a graphic card. Mainly i wanna hit the best of the best, but what is the best of the best?
Any ideas or experience with a new card?

I have no idea but this seems ok

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

http://www.ati.com/products/radeonx800/index.html
...thor? you know this shit :D

From my experience, if you want a stable AMD system, DON'T buy anything that uses VIA chipsets :<
I always had IRQ sharing violations, random game crashes, BSODs, etc.

But about the vid card, I have had an nVidia (2 MX) card, and currently have an ATi (Radeon 9600 Pro). Don't think there's a whole lot of difference between those two brands, just don't buy a 'cheap' version of a card, because it has a lot of features nerfed.

I suggest you google for some benchmarks though ;)

??? who uses a computer anyway?? i like monopoly ;)(muahahahaha)

come visit us some day Kindy, and i'll bribe tarra into telling you what to buy :) he knows it very well :)

-Jerelyn *party on saturday=shitloads of geeeeks = information*

Gurbe wrote:I've been using VIA chipsets for a while now, probably on my last 4 motherboards or so. Luckily I haven't had problems with IRQ sharing or random crashes, apart from a video driver problem in Windows 2000 Server once.

Next time I'll probably try something else though. As for AMD, I've never personally owned a non-AMD PC and I don't really see a reason to change that.

As for graphics cards I would prefer a 6800 GT over a X800, it has slightly more support for certain new DirectX features iirc.
The first PCI Express motherboards are around, so I'd like to say: buy a PCI-E board now, or wait a couple of months if you want to be sure all the flaws are ironed out, but don't buy a soon absolete AGP board.
On top of that the GeForce 6 series is designed around PCI Express and the AGP versions use a translation chip to make it work on AGP slots. I don't think the performance hit is that great, but it certainly doesn't make it faster. Also if you spend 400 euros on a videocard I'd want to make d*mned sure it doesn't use an outdated bus architecture. So in short: PCI Express is the way to go.

Yeh thor, but what card can play pr0n best?

A GayForce ofcourse!

Gurbe wrote:
ftw! :D