ASUS for MOBO.. and Stay away from Intel.. GO AMD! They are FASTER and cheaper!!!!

XFX is a great brand! My GeForce 7950GX2 is XFX and it ROCKS!!!!


Corsair is perfect choice for Ram, espeically matched twins.. Mine are matched, but the top of the line: TWIN2048-3500LLPRO I have 2 sets, but Win XP SP2 recommended only run 3 GB ram instead of the total 4. Vista will fix this.

My AGP 6800 ultra died, so I bought an upgrade similar to yours:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (can be OC pretty high and is cheap)
Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
LEADTEK Winfast PX7950GX2

I would go with one of the 965 gigabyte motherboards. they seem to offer good overclocking abilities.

Should be here in a few days

AMD might be cheaper, but I'm afraid the top 3 Intel core 2 duo chips outperform the AMD FX and X2 chips hands down, and all while consuming less power. It's a breath of fresh air for those of us with no particular preference toward AMD.

Personally I like AMD better then Intel simply because they try to keep their product in reach of the every day person. But ATM Intel's CPU just beats the pants off AMD. Is it noticeable playing EQ2 though? I wish these some of these benchmarks would use EQ2 for their test as it's graphics engine is much more demanding then most of the ones they use to test with.

I upgraded from Intel to AMD and SAW major improvement. AMD dual core is still tops. Tom's Hardware website has numerous articles reqarding AMD vs. Intel.

And Intel wins here, here, and here on Tom's Hardware site alone. Currently (as in, not last month or last quarter or last year, but now) it seems pretty clear who the champion is. I can't wait till my new rig is shipped :nana:

Uh ok i so didnt read the entire thread, to lazy right now (Waiting for server to work again..gah)
I have a 7950...I forget..exactly which one...Like the offical name.
However its a dual card...the big daddy.
Its one card, a double decker, that has twin 7950's on it. Each at 512mb for a total of 1GB.
I have it setup so they run together like one massive GPU, connected to a 32inch plasma.
My frames are around 70 or so ingame usually.

So yeh the card works fine..well mine does. I totally forget where i got it from, manufactuer. I saved the box, but its packed cause im moving in 2 days. Think it was a Gigabyte brand actually. But yeh, only one company to my knowledge came out with the twin 7950 card.

Ive got no experience with the other 7950's, but yeh...the twin card works wonders.

I run EQ2 (windowed), A firefox window with about 10 tabs, teamspeak, streaming radio, EVEMon (I also play Eve Online, EVEMon is a monitor for the game's real time training.)and EveOnline.
The card handles all that fine.

Edit: Screw Intel, AMD is the champ, i dont care what website says differently. They might be experts or crayon chewing kiddies, but AMD works better for me than Intel ever did.

You get what you buy, you buy a cheap chip you get cheap %&#$, you buy expensive chip you get good %&#$

AMD might be better for how much u pay for it (money vs performance ratio)

but id have to say intel.

sister worked with intel, getting all the new conro, motherboards, free pc's, what not...but i feel the best intel beats the best amd period...

im a user of both

my opinion,
drago

I like my new 8800 GTS with support for DX10 ;)

As a point of reference, with the GTS I was able to turn every game option setting to max and zone into my house with something like 20 pets and 300 items and had virtually no lag.

I do notice the ocational dropped frame when moving around ALOT, but that's probably due to several factors off the vid card. Haven't noticed any lag when camping one area. One nice thing about this card is that I wont HAVE to upgrade it any time soon. Its DX10 and SLI ready, so if I need more power later I can drop in a second card for a total of 1.3gb and a processing bump. When DX10 games come out, I'll actually see the improvements ;)

Two are awesome
 

I used two of these cards in SLI mode on two different machines and they were flawless. Definatley work horses for eq2 and wow. I never had any issues. All 4 cards (8) were evgas model. I have since replaced them with 8800 gtx's and have given 2 cards to seperate friends and the other two will go in my test machines. :)

Can I bee your friend? :o

Can I be your friend too?

My 6600 GT does not run the game smoothly. Just thought I'd let you know. :p

Ok no I didn't upgrade I held off, got other things and now rethinkng my plan.

Have a couple of questions though..

Will the NVidia chip set do ATI's crossfire or do I need ATI/AMD chipset to do that if I deside to wait on ATI's DX10 2' long card?

I think I saw something about hacked drivers that made that possible, but with official drivers it won't work AFAIK.