New system suggestions....

unklerosco

Long story short, I have about €1000+ to spend on a system.. Looking to leave Intel behind n go back to AMD... Only thing is, i havent kept up on AMDs going ons. Was thinking of going down the crossfire road but need to readup r wait till its finally released to which mobo to go for... Either way hit me with ur suggestions. I need a Mobo/CPU/GFX I have 1gig PC4000 DDR ram n Hard drives etc..

WizZard

Crossfire mobo's aren't available yet. Due out in a month or two - but have been already delayed!

Get an AMD Athlon64 Venice 3200+, either DFI nF4 or ASUS A8N board (depending on how much time you want to spend tweaking), and then graphics card is either 6800GT or X800XL. (€780)
In fact with just those items you could go SLi with two 6800GT's! (€1125)
(Komplett prices)

And custom watercooling of course!

DemonOfTheFall

Get a 3200+ (Venice core), Epox 9npa+ SLI, 7800GTX. Theres a nice 1000 euro rig for u .

Aww, now I want to upgrade

unklerosco

Im thinking Venice 3200, Asus A8N-SLi Premium nForce4 SLi and an X800XL n hope that nvidea allow crossfire to work on their mobo's....

unklerosco

Works out at €680 for above... Using a saphire X800XL. Just need to come up with a crazy watercooling idea now. Something outdoors.... ;-)

Dundhoone

why the 3200 , out of interest? fair enough its not worth blowing a load of cash on a 4000 if you might like to go dual core in a while, but why not 3500 or 3700 ?

Is it just easy to oc up to a nice high speed?

unklerosco

As far as i know the 3200 is a great overclocker, I intend to overclock it so why spend the extra when i can get it for free(and enjoy doing it..)

DemonOfTheFall

The 3200+ and 3500+ have pretty much the same ceiling for overclocks, i'd say that that's a factor. Why not my plan involving a 7800GTX unkel? You know the dark side of ridiculous pixel power is calling you

unklerosco

7800 is big bucks, i prefare the crossfire idea...