ErBall

For the same price as that 9800gtx+ you could get a radeon 4850 and a decent p45 board and have the ability to crossfire, and avoid nvidia chipsets all together, while also having the ability to scale.

4850 is faster too, and requires less power plugs.

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bedrockhorror

yea what I just said in the previous post, it only has to have 1 pcie 6 plug instead of 2 that the 4870 has to have, u can get a good p45 board for around $130-$140 if u need some links let me know I can help you out.

Steele84

I'm not sure on the price compairison, but I have 2 OCZ Xstream PSU's and I love both! Soild and my 1000 watter is smaller then most standard 1000 watt PSU's. Also OCZ has the best tech support on the planet !

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ye ocz is a very good stable company, I was going to get them for my psu unit, but then I saw the very good rosewill and hdd combo for only $160 so i was like yep I got to get it, rosewill 750 watt and 500 gb aaks wd 7200 rpm hdd.

M0nk3y11

The ball is officially rolling!! I started ordering parts tonite!

*ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard

*HIS Hightech H487F512P Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card

*Thermaltake Kandalf VD4000BWS Black Chassis: 1.0mm SECC Front door: Aluminum ATX / BTX Tower Computer Case

*CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply

That's round one of part buying until I have some more cash Woooooooooo!!! Thanks for all the help and advice thus far everybody I'll keep updating as things progress!!

bedrockhorror

good, I saw you got the board I told you about, you wont be dissapointed with it. I will be glad when I start ordering my parts, anyone interested in a ps3 let me know, and I will tell you some specs on all the crap I got for it!! I cant post in the for sale section b/c I dont have 35 rep, so yea .

Votkrath

I would recommend you going with the Corsair 650w power supply, you would be able to SLI on that later on if you want too. And get 64bit OS since you have 4GB of RAM and 512MB of graphics memory. And about the case, never had of the brand but they seem to be pretty trust worthy as well as the case looks pretty nifty.

Other than that I think you'll be fine.

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M0nk3y11

I don't really see any disavantage to the Corsair 750 that I went with, it supports crossfire and has the power I need and more. The 64-bit OS vs the 32-bit OS is something I've been kinda throwing around in my head. If I go 64-bit I can easily throw in more memory for cheap and max it out at 8 so I'll probably go with that. As for the case, yeah Thermaltake's got a great name and this case is huge and seems like it comes with everything but the kitchen sink which I like because I don't want to have space issues inside the case or issues when it comes to fans fitting properly and that sort of thing. Thanks for the advice!!

FieryCoD

Gir, one of the members from this forum, told me that the P5Q-E and P5Q-Deluxe were great for overclocking, even beating out the P5Q Pro. I can suggest you get that instead of the P5Q Pro.

As for the 4870, you're playing your games/movies at 1680x1050? Might as well get a 4850, because the 4870 will start to shine at resolutions like 1920x1200.

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