Syncroneyes

I Need some help designing my new rig, I cant decide to get a crossfire setup or an sli setup...need some advice on which is best...

so far my chosen specs are such: (ive spent £1750)

-Athlon 64 X2 (dual) 4200+ (2.2ghz)

-2024 MB corsair xms2 (800mhz)

-Asus M2R32-MVP: Express 3200 Dual DDR2,SATA2, 2 PCI

-Vista

-150 GB Raptor HD (10,000 rpm)

-16x DVD ROM

-18x DVD WRITER

Gpu 1 - 512MB RADEON X1950 Crossfire edition
Gpu 2 - 512MB RADEON X1950 XTX

-Soundblaster Audigy SE 7.1

-(1.44 Floppy)

-Black Trident Case

-700W Quiet Quad Rail psu inc fan + cooler

-19" Widescreen TFT

-Cordless Logitech keyboard + rechargable mouse

-Creative Inspire 5.1 T6100 speaker system

-Norton AV 2007


Need all your advice , want this to be my dream machine so gimme ur best intel...

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Regeneration

You should wait for ATI R600 instead of buying X1950 Crossfire. Oh, and yeah, 22" Widescreen LCD would be a better choice.

Syncroneyes

yeah i could spend a bit more on the monitor, but i dont relly see the point 19" (Wide) is big enuff for me, and the cost of upgrade to 22" is like another £150..its not really cost effective, rather spend the money upgrading a different component More importantly SHOULD I GO SLI OR CROSSFIRE???? ...

P.s when is R600 released?

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xiaomhome

I agree with him, except by the anti-virus stuff, norton antivirus is a piece of crap, get kaspersky or nod32 instead. Even AVG or Avast are better than norton, and they are free! Norton is a resource hog and so kaspersky is, but kaspersky has a bigger virus data base, and can be tweaked for less stressing ( the option under file protection tab, check scan only modifed files), nod32 is great too, its light and is updated every day.

Syncroneyes

yeah your absolutely right about the anti-virus, now that i think about it, ill probably get Nod 32 or something instead, the only reason i was gonna get it was because they were goin to
gimme a discount on it if i bought it with the rest of the package, ...hmm yesss **** the Norton....


the problem is I may have to wait ***kin ages for R600, no-one relly knows when it will be released, & it will probably be damn expensive when it finally is available too...i have a problem/choice to make here...

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xiaomhome

You may find this usefull
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R600


"R600 was reported to launch between the end of January 2007 to end of Q1 2007"

Syncroneyes

thanx, i may have to put things on "standby" for a month or so to see what the progress is with R600 release and get some more info, but still I have a feeling it will be v v expensive....


An alternative would be to go for SLI instead and get 2 8800 GTS.....?.....(2 8800 GTX is over my budget with below spec).....

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xiaomhome

I dont know about r600 prices, but you dont need to get a crossfire to enjoy it, a single card should be enought to do the job for now. If you dont wanna wait buy a cheap video card and then when they release r600 you sell your old card or give it for those who needs it

Syncroneyes

lol...yeah i don't really wanna wait ..but ive waited years for a new (top-spec) pc so i suppose i shouldnt mind waiting a bit longer ...ive wanted it for so long im gonna make sure its purrrfect.....


However, i AM tempted to just go ahead and get the two x1950's in crossfire and then sell ONE when R600 is released and I can afford it.........but will i be able to then hook up a new R600 to the existing x1950 and run them in crossfire?.....that would be cool......

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xiaomhome

No you wont be able to hook 2 diferent model of video cards, you must have the same model, not sure about the brand.