Jim For comparison purposes, I recently built an Athlon 64 system using the following components. This one uses the 754 chip which is being phased out but interestingly MSI has been extending the life of the 754 with a new board that supports PCI express but doesn't include SLI.
MSI NF4 KN8 Neo3-F MSI NX6600 PCI Express X16 Athlon 64 3400+ Winchester WD 80 g SATA (2) Pioneer A09 DVD Corsair XMS memory 512 mb (2) Thermaltake A 1838 Silent Boost cooler Antec Sonata case Runs very stable and very fast compared to the former system it replaced (Athlon XP 3200). Regards Vince Vincent Winterling Vineland, NJ -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Green Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CPU question, AMD vs Intel >IMHO for the serious gamer a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI socket 939 mobo supports >socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 X2, 64 FX and 64 procs with a FSB of 400MHz, >dual-channel DDR400 memory in increments from 64MB to 4GB memory. Nvidia >nForce4 SLI, PCI Express X16, SATA II running at 3GB/s bandwidth. A 300GB >maxtor MaxLine III SATA at 7200 rpm with a 16MB cache buffer would kick butt >for any game app. Graphics card Nvidia Gforce 7 series 7800 GTX I am starting to have second thoughts about this mobo. Yes for the gamer it seems excellent -- with AMD 64 and X2 and SLI. But for real users, I wonder. It has only 2 PCI slots and those 2 PCIe x16 slots for the gamers. But what good are those 2 PCIe X1 slots? I have yet to find a PCIe X1 card for anything -- or in fact a PCIe X16 card beside the graphics cards. Will somebody please tell me I am wrong -- so I can comfortably go out and buy the thing. -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
