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Subject: Re: Welcome back, and any good case suggestions?
Name:
 Stugatz
Date: 7/13/2005 1:33:46 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 66.12.97.150
In Reply to: Re: Welcome back, and any good case suggestions? posted by
Bob
Message:
Well, I would like to upgrade to a 6800 gt, or similar card, but my budget cant really handle it right now unless I drop away from socket 939, and if I do that, theres not a whole lot of point in upgrading. I figure this card will get me by for awhile, and then hopefully after the ATI/nVidia price wars of the newest gen cards, I can swing on up to a loaded 6800 gt, or possibly even a 7800, or maybe whatever ATI comes out with.
I pretty much am trying to design this system with bigger upgrades in the future, I tried to go with a solid mobo that will support the entire 939 pin line of AMD chips, including the dual core, then go with pretty much the lowest end chip I can put in it until I get the cash to jump way up to an FX series, or possible X2.
Thats also why I want to find a PSU thats not going to balk if/when I toss a new chip and video card into it, I've heard really good things about Antec, Thermaltake, and one other company I cant exactly remember right now. As for HDD's, I'll be doing a lot of drive switching to re-organize my old data stored around on various 10, 20 and 30 gig drives, but a little later, I plan on upgrading to a new SATA drive. Probably wont be more than 2-3 drives plugged in at once though, and I wont be running SLI video cards on this machine either, so is 400 enough, or do I need 450-500 like I was thinking before? If its not a big matter of price, I could go up a little bit and splurge to make the system more future proof. Well, I've rambled long enough for now. THanks again for the input guys.
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