Building New PC.

[mootsfox]

We'll see. Hopefully ATI made a better difference between the xx50 and xx70 this time around. With the HD38 series, the xx50 and xx70 were basically the same card, especially once you found an HD3850 with 512MB of RAM.

The HD4870 will be the first card ever with GDDR5, which should be interesting.

[Epical]

You need to update your sig, Moots.

[mootsfox]

You need to update your sig, Moots.

I haven't run the benchmark with it yet.

Plus I'm not sure if my CPU can still do that overclock.

[Epical]

Oh I thought you were just stating what's in your tower... I couldn't care less about the benchmark. That thing is ancient anyways.

[mootsfox]

Oh I thought you were just stating what's in your tower... I could care less about the benchmark. That thing is ancient anyways.

Well for the benchmark, it does 8k on High with the CPU at 3.0GHz.

[Grandcross]

Wow, if the 4850s are this good, ill probably go with the 4870x2 for my Nahalem rig later this year.

[mootsfox]

Wow, if the 4850s are this good, ill probably go with the 4870x2 for my Nahalem rig later this year.

Nehalem won't hit the consumer market until next year.

The first run is the server model, coming in a LGA1366 package with multiple sockets. Nehalem is really an answer to AMD's Opteron series, which has been destroying Intel in anything with four sockets in the last five years or so.

[Shuemue]

I'm lazy, when are the 45nm quads due? Are they penryn too?

[jkim1162]

I'm lazy, when are the 45nm quads due? Are they penryn too?

45nm quads have been out for a while now (unless you are looking for a specific chip).

They are called Yorkfield.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Yorkfield 2.5GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80580Q9300 - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819115043

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Yorkfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569Q9450 - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819115042

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569Q9550 - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819115041

[mootsfox]

I'm lazy, when are the 45nm quads due? Are they penryn too?

45nm quads have been out for a while now (unless you are looking for a specific chip).

They are called Yorkfield.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Yorkfield 2.5GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80580Q9300 - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819115043

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Yorkfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569Q9450 - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819115042

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569Q9550 - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819115041

Don't forget the EE 45nm quads:
http://processorfinder.intel.com/List.a ... SearchKey=

[Amele]

Friend asked me to assist him, on building a new gaming PC. $2,000 max price range, so can go for some serious things here.

We already come through with some stuff he wants to do, including dual-8800 in SLI.

So here are some devices he is going to purchase shortly.

Case: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6811129021

Video Card: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6814130318
(2 of these, better suggestions?)

Processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819115043
(I told him, most programs wont use the quad core...but he wants a quad core.)

Memory: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6820227267
(Wants x64 version of windows....so wants to order 2 of these for 8 GB of memory)

Hard Drive 1(Primary): http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6822136012

Hard Drive 2: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6822136151

Power Supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817182097



Anyone have any advice on a Mobo for this? Something that supports SLI, and supports 8 GB of ram would be nice.

Any other advice on different things to replace would also be very helpful.

Thanks

since you're going SLI you'll need an nvidia chipset.

my recommendation would be to look into a different GPU setup (either a 9800 GX2 or crossfire) and go with an intel chipset, the latest rev of nvidia based north bridges kind of fall down.

I have a p5e3 premium for my QX9650 myself, but that's a ddr3 based board and on the upper end, probably wouldn't need something like that, but ASUS in general is pretty good for intel chipsets.