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cyrnel · 01-17-2005, 04:51 PM

That's a nice mobo, especially for the money. It has room for enough RAM and all the other goodies. No SLI, but that's its only real shortcoming. Zipzoomfly.com has a <a retail href="http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80717-R-241143">64 3500 bundle for $405</a>

There is a somewhat cool dual-GPU card/MB combo from Gigabyte just coming out this month. I believe the card is the "SL1"? It's a dual SLI 6600GT (each with 128MB) on a single PCIe card, selling with a fairly nice 939 mobo for $~500. I read a <a href="http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/gigabyte3d1/">performance review that showed</a> it beat X800XT's & 6800GT's on some tests and fall well behind in others. As long as the jobs could be shared and didn't need more than 128MB/processor it put out some amazing numbers. This will be an interesting year for video cards.

Agreed on the RAM. That is nice stuff but pricey. <a href="http://shop2.outpost.com/product/3746176">Outpost has kingston hyperX CL2 for $159 (139 after rebate)</a> for a matched pair of 512MB DIMMs. Crucial CL2.5 can be had for <$130. The last 10% improvement in latency is very tough to notice.

01-17-2005, 04:51 PM	#12 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	That's a nice mobo, especially for the money. It has room for enough RAM and all the other goodies. No SLI, but that's its only real shortcoming. Zipzoomfly.com has a <a retail href="http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80717-R-241143">64 3500 bundle for $405</a> There is a somewhat cool dual-GPU card/MB combo from Gigabyte just coming out this month. I believe the card is the "SL1"? It's a dual SLI 6600GT (each with 128MB) on a single PCIe card, selling with a fairly nice 939 mobo for $~500. I read a <a href="http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/gigabyte3d1/">performance review that showed</a> it beat X800XT's & 6800GT's on some tests and fall well behind in others. As long as the jobs could be shared and didn't need more than 128MB/processor it put out some amazing numbers. This will be an interesting year for video cards. Agreed on the RAM. That is nice stuff but pricey. <a href="http://shop2.outpost.com/product/3746176">Outpost has kingston hyperX CL2 for $159 (139 after rebate)</a> for a matched pair of 512MB DIMMs. Crucial CL2.5 can be had for <$130. The last 10% improvement in latency is very tough to notice.