damn you nforce 4!

[NarcoticHobo]

So back in august I decided to wait on nforce4 in order to have the goodies it brought, but alas the day has come where I must build and it is still not here.

Here is my predicament, I sold my old computer to my brother so it is now his, and I have to go back to college on... I think the 7th of Jan. When I go back I will not be able to go without a computer given the way our classes work, so I have to have a new computer up and running by the 7th of january.

So it looks like I have two options, wait and hopefully get an nforce 4 ultra by that time, then throw in a ATI card as they seem to be the only pcie cards mildly available. Or I can go ahead and get nforce3 ultra now with a 6800GT agp since those are finally in good supply.

I don't want to do either of those though What do I do?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Buy that $548 laptop at wlamart.com ?

Your grades will improve from having zero gaming capability and you can wait for any bugs in nf4 motherboards to get fixed.

 

[XBoxLPU]

http://www.chumbo.com/info.aspx?id=242673

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[ponyo]

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
http://www.chumbo.com/info.aspx?id=242673

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Wow. I can't believe I'm wowing over MSRP.

I would jump all over this if I was in market for SLI.

 

[NarcoticHobo]

I would like to order from them, but their reseller ratings are decently bad, a lot about not honoring prices and cancelling orders.

 

[DrCool]

i'm not sure why so many people on this board, feel they need to have the very latest avalible..

your just being a guinea pig for the motherboard manufacturers when you buy any revision 1 board.. these board are always rushed to production, and usually contain numerous bugs/quirks.

the nForce 3 is finally coming into its own, and the performance it offers is phenominal!

sure, you won't get PCIe but lets be realistic, how many add-in cards are PCIe right now? umm, graphics cards? boy, that's sure a overwhelming reason to buy nForce 4.. even though CURRENTLY PCIe has no advantage over AGP 8x..

sure, SLI looks great, but do you really have $1000 to blow on 2 GeForce 6800 ultras, on top of finding an nForce4 SLI board that's going for $350

the peformance difference between nForce3 + GeForce 6800 and an nForce4 + SLI is nowhere worth the cost difference.. about $700

get a high quality power supply (enermax 460w), a high quality overclocking motherboard (MSI K8N Neo Platinum), and the best overclocking processor avalible (AMD Athlon 64 2800+ CG core). according to my benchmarks, my system is wholping a Intel P4 3.6GHz.. which costs 4x as much as my Athlon 64 2800+, and its 64bit ready!!

 

[maevinj]

i posted a link for that in another thread

if somebody wants one they should order it. i ordered mine yesterday and the guy said they were doing FREE overnight shipping, so my card will be here tomorrow. now i just have to wait for the damn nforce4 boards to come into stock

 

[Rhin0]

Abit AV8
Abit AX8
Asus A8V

 

[NarcoticHobo]

Originally posted by: DrCool
i'm not sure why so many people on this board, feel they need to have the very latest avalible..

your just being a guinea pig for the motherboard manufacturers when you buy any revision 1 board.. these board are always rushed to production, and usually contain numerous bugs/quirks.

the nForce 3 is finally coming into its own, and the performance it offers is phenominal!

sure, you won't get PCIe but lets be realistic, how many add-in cards are PCIe right now? umm, graphics cards? boy, that's sure a overwhelming reason to buy nForce 4.. even though CURRENTLY PCIe has no advantage over AGP 8x..

sure, SLI looks great, but do you really have $1000 to blow on 2 GeForce 6800 ultras, on top of finding an nForce4 SLI board that's going for $350

the peformance difference between nForce3 + GeForce 6800 and an nForce4 + SLI is nowhere worth the cost difference.. about $700

get a high quality power supply (enermax 460w), a high quality overclocking motherboard (MSI K8N Neo Platinum), and the best overclocking processor avalible (AMD Athlon 64 2800+ CG core). according to my benchmarks, my system is wholping a Intel P4 3.6GHz.. which costs 4x as much as my Athlon 64 2800+, and its 64bit ready!!

OK, but if I can get that BFG for $400 and an nforce4 ultra for $150, then I paid $50 more for future upgradeability, whereas if I get the nforce3 then I have to buy a new motherboard in two years when I upgrade again.

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: NarcoticHobo
I would like to order from them, but their reseller ratings are decently bad, a lot about not honoring prices and cancelling orders.

Chumbo is official etailer/online store for BFG products.

 

[Regs]

your just being a guinea pig for the motherboard manufacturers when you buy any revision 1 board..

I agree with this point. I learned the hard way by buying a first generation KT800 with no overclocking ability.

 

[NarcoticHobo]

Well I ordered it, I figure if it gets cancelled I'll go to nforce 3 and agp and if not I'll go with nforce 4 and hope that the bugs are mostly worked out as a large amount of the technology is based on nforce 3 ultra.

Oh well, hope everything turns out alright.

 

[HaVoC]

sure, you won't get PCIe but lets be realistic, how many add-in cards are PCIe right now? umm, graphics cards? boy, that's sure a overwhelming reason to buy nForce 4.. even though CURRENTLY PCIe has no advantage over AGP 8x..

I disagree. For the folks such as a budget-limited ethusiast, college student and graduated gamer (such as myself) , PCIe makes a compelling choice to wait for. If this was June, then I would say yeah, go for NF3-250, but it's only about 60 days until we have a good choice of NF4 motherboards, so if NarcoticHobo waited this long, he should wait a couple of months longer. PCIe offers the big advantage now (and will so for the next few months at least) of having a price advantage over AGP boards, especially when you are talking about the mid-range nVidia GF 6xxx series. This will offset some of the price premium of nF4 and you'll be able to hold onto the motherboard a bit longer before upgrading vs NF3 since all new graphics cards are moving to PCIe. (and there still won't be as much demand as for the AGP versions of the latest gen graphics cards keeping prices lower on PCIe cards.