Well I was playing san andreas earlier and my computer had a loverly blue screen of death, and when it rebooted my usb ports didnt work at all. I was planning on getting a new mobo cpu ram and video card anyways but not this soon. Not completely sure of the hardware i want to get, should be mobo and cpu first as i have ram that will work and am fine without a decent video card for a while. I do want to go Athlon 64 and was thinking about the DFI SLI-DR board. Any recommendations? edit: whoops forgot to mention that i will need a new psu too
budget? also the crappy ram will be fine on a divider although there will be some performance loss.. go for the Sli-D unless you want the extras liek cable sleeving and front X go for the Sli-DR
meh there isnt really a budget but i want something that is somewhat overkill as i want it to last quite a while
If ya REALLY want overkill this would rock : DFI LanParty Sli-D Mobo AMD Athlon FX-57 CPU - Or X2 4800 Enermax 600w SLI PSU 2x Nvidia 7800GTX 256mb GFX 4xOCZ 512mb 2-2-2-5 Ram PC3200 DDR400 That would be sweeeeeeeet
sour in my veiw at about £3000 it's an over kill but it's proberly one of the best... also don't get a fx57 stick with an fx55 since theres no performance difference... oe get dual core if you doing more thing at a time up to as much as something like 1-2% get a nice case like a lian-li v1000 or v2000
That DFI (sli-d) motherboards are great choices if you're looking to overclock, and its resonably priced as well. I also second the opinion that an FX-57 is overkill, I personally would spring for one of the new dual cores (like a 4400+, because it seems to be a pretty good overclocker), but thats just me.
shame the dual cores cost so much but i may still consider one as it would probably last me quite a bit longer than a 3200 venice edit: probably should mention that im in the us
get an FX-55 (san diego core) because they should be getting cheaper now that the FX-57 is out. imho: FX-55 DFI SLI-D or MSI Neo4 SLI 2GB ram (2x1gb) 1x 7800GTX (add another later for SLI) 520W OCZ powerstream 74gb raptor boot drive large seagate for storage
I like what TMM suggested. Though I would prefer the dual core, as it would last me a while longer as well. and as far as boot drive, maybe 2x 36 gig in raid 1, or 2x 74gig in raid 0 (for redunancy, if you want)